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When the marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com learned in July 2015 that hackers were threatening to publish data stolen from 37 million users, the company’s then-CEO Noel Biderman was quick to point the finger at an unnamed former contractor. But as a new documentary series on Hulu reveals [SPOILER ALERT!], there was just one problem with that theory: Their top suspect had killed himself more than a year before the hackers began publishing stolen user data.

Users need to patch the latest SQL injection vulnerability as soon as possible. Meanwhile, Cl0p's data extortion rampage gallops on.

Each application sends the stolen data to China over a hundred times

Three months after mega breach by Russian cybercrime group Capita has informed some of its employees that its own pension fund was among the victims of a cybercrime attack on its system, resulting in the theft of their personal details, they say.…

TV network's attorneys 'on a DMCA rampage' ... are you sure you're ready, kids? Nickelodeon says it is probing claims that "decades old" material was stolen from it and leaked online. This follows reports on social media that someone had dumped 500GB of snatched animation files. Hilarity, and many SpongeBob SquarePants memes, ensued.…

Attackers are leveraging well-executed brand impersonation in a Google ads malvertising effort that collects both credit card and bank details from victims.

A suspected senior member of a French-speaking hacking crew known as OPERA1ER has been arrested as part of an international law enforcement operation codenamed Nervone, Interpol has announced

Prime doesn't pay – well, not that much, anyway A former Amazon manager described by prosecutors as the "mastermind" behind a nearly $10 million scheme to steal money from the online megaretailer using fake invoices has been sentenced to 16 years behind bars in federal prison.…

Cops reckon gang swiped as much as $30M from financial orgs International cops have arrested a suspected "key figure" of a cybercrime group dubbed OPERA1ER that has stolen as much as $30 million from more than 30 banks and financial orgs across 15 countries.…

The group's mastermind was nabbed in Côte d'Ivoire for stealing up to $30 million using malware, phishing campaigns, and BEC scams, as part of international law enforcement's Operation Nervone.

A sophisticated stealer-as-a-ransomware threat dubbed RedEnergy has been spotted in the wild targeting energy utilities, oil, gas, telecom, and machinery sectors in Brazil and the Philippines through their LinkedIn pages

Most had data stolen, according to Emsisoft

They allegedly helped to clean money stolen from the elderly and vulnerable

Russian-linked Anonymous Sudan claims to have stolen credentials

Microsoft has denied the claims of the so-called hacktivists "Anonymous Sudan" that they breached the company's servers and stole credentials for 30 million customer accounts. [...]

In yet another sign of a lucrative crimeware-as-a-service (CaaS) ecosystem, cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new Windows-based information stealer called Meduza Stealer that's actively being developed by its author to evade detection by software solutions

Cybersecurity researchers have released a new tool called 'Snappy' that can help detect fake or rogue WiFi access points that attempts to steal data from unsuspecting people. [...]