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A (or group of hackers) claims to have stolen data on a billion Chinese citizens from a Shanghai police database. According to , the hacker is attempting to sell 23 terabytes of data for 10 bitcoin, which is worth just over $198,000 at the time of writing. The data includes names, addresses, birthplaces, national IDs and phone numbers. reports that the hacker provided a sample of the data, which included crime reports dating as far back as 1995. Reporters confirmed the legitimacy of at least some of the data by calling…

A hacker has claimed to have procured a trove of personal information from the Shanghai police on one billion Chinese citizens, which tech experts say, if true, would be one of the biggest data breaches in history. The anonymous internet user, identified as "ChinaDan", posted on hacker forum Breach Forums last week offering to sell the more than 23 terabytes (TB) of data for 10 bitcoin, equivalent to about $200,000. "In 2022, the Shanghai National Police (SHGA) database was leaked. This database contains many TB of data…

Photo: FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP (Getty Images)Ahh, Microsoft Exchange. For cybercriminals, this is the program that just keeps on giving. When a massive vulnerability was first announced in March of 2021, security experts predicted catastrophe. They were right. Hackers have pillaged the vulnerability which, in many cases, has gone unpatched by large organizations and companies. This week, it was reported that a new malware had been discovered targeting Exchange servers that’s able to create backdoors into previously hacked…

A cyberattack temporarily knocked out public and private websites in Norway in the past 24 hours, Norwegian authorities said Wednesday.Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre said that to his knowledge the attack “has not caused any significant damage.”The distributed-denial-of-service (DDOS) attack targeted a secure national data network forcing the temporary suspension of online services for several hours, the Norwegian National Security Authority said.A criminal pro-Russian group seems to be behind the cyberattacks,…

A Delhi woman lost Rs. 4 lakh after she clicked a link which promised her a job opportunity at a leading e-commerce company. Know how this online scam works and protect yourself. A new online scam has surfaced which is targeting job seekers and stealing their money. In the latest incident, a Delhi woman was swindled out of Rs. 4,00,000 on the pretext of a job opportunity. Looking for a job online, she was sent a URL via SMS by fraudsters and was asked to click…

MIT engineers demonstrated that analog-to-digital converters in smart devices are vulnerable to power and electromagnetic side-channel attacks that hackers use to “eavesdrop” on devices and steal secret information. They developed two security strategies that effectively and efficiently block both types of attacks. Credit: MIT NewsEngineers demonstrate two security methods that efficiently protect analog-to-digital converters from powerful attacks that aim to steal user data.Researchers are racing against hackers to…

A Counter-Strike: Global Offensive collector’s Steam inventory has been robbed of an estimated £1.6 million worth of CS:GO skins. The Counter-Strike: Global Offensive items have been reportedly stolen from one victim, including seven valuable souvenir AWP Dragon Lore skins which sell for upwards of £45,000 each. The competitive multiplayer game’s “most expensive inventory of all time”, according to ohnepixel on Twitter, has been hacked and stolen with “half” of the items already quick sold, with the other half sent to…

NEW DELHI : Dragon Force, a Malaysian hacktivist group, has called upon hackers around the world to target the Indian government’s information technology (IT) infrastructure with cyber attacks. On June 10, the group expressed its intent via a post on its Twitter, terming this move as a “special operation". The hacktivist group’s move seemingly comes after members of India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Nupur Sharma and Naveen Kumar Jindal, made comments against…

An underground illegal online marketplace that contained and sold sensitive information pertaining to individuals based out of the U.S. has been shut down. SSNDOB, which saw people’s names, social security numbers, and dates of birth being collected and sold has been successfully taken offline due to a joint operation from U.S. authorities and their counterparts in Cyprus. Getty Images As reported by Bleeping Computer, the marketplace itself wasn’t your run-of-the-mill operation — around 24 million individuals from…

Mobile phones powered by Unisoc chips are found to be vulnerable to an issue that could allow attackers to remotely block communication. Cybersecurity analysis firm Check Point Research on Thursday announced that it identified a vulnerability in the Unisoc modem that could impact communication. The issue exists in the modem firmware and affects 4G and 5G Unisoc chipsets, according to the firm. Unisoc acknowledged the vulnerability and considered it of critical nature, giving a 9.4 score out of 10.Check Point Research said…