Billions of stolen usernames and passwords for sale on the Dark Web

Billions of stolen usernames and passwords discovered for sale on the Dark Web – with bank accounts being flogged for as little as £56 Cybersecurity firm Digital Shadows said it found more than 15 billion credentials  Bank account details were available for between £56 and £400 apiece  Five billion of the identified credentials were assessed … Read more

Twitter ‘fact checks’ two-month-old tweets by China as Trump threatens web giants with bias probes

Twitter has fact-checked China after it flagged Donald Trump‘s tweets for accuracy and sparked fury from the US president. Exclamation point warnings marked, ‘Get the facts about COVID-19,’ were added to tweets from spokesman Lijian Zhao, who claimed: ‘It might be US army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan.’ The tweets that are more than … Read more

Hacker group ‘ShinyHunters’ sells more than 73 MILLION user records on the dark web

More than 73 million user records have been stolen from a number of online services and are being sold on the dark web for a total of $18,000. The hacker group, named ‘ShinyHunters’, scraped data from at least 10 companies including Zoosk, Chatbooks and the StarTribune. The online dating app, Zoosk, had the largest breach, … Read more

Faroe Islands offers remote tourism where web users can control a real-life tour guide

‘Look left, turn right… jump!’ Faroe Islands offers ‘remote tourism’ – where web users can control a REAL-LIFE tour guide Wearing helmet cameras, local guides provide commentary to web audiences They are controlled by web users, who can tell them which direction to walk in Tourism has been growing in the Faroe Islands with 120,000 … Read more

Hackers sell private information of 267 million Facebook users on the Dark Web for just $600

Hackers found selling private information of 267 million Facebook users on the Dark Web for just $600 Researchers say the stolen information contains data from 267 million users Data includes emails, names, Facebook ID’s and more  The experts were able to download and verify the data Facebook users can check if they’re affected by visiting … Read more

Web giants remove products advertised on their sites claiming to ‘protect’ customers from 5G

Google, Amazon and eBay remove products advertised on their sites claiming to ‘protect’ customers from 5G By Jamie Nimmo, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:52 BST, 18 April 2020 | Updated: 22:28 BST, 18 April 2020 Google, Amazon and eBay have removed dozens of products advertised on their sites claiming to ‘protect’ customers from 5G.  … Read more

More than 500,000 Zoom user credentials were sold on the dark web for less than a PENNY each

More than 500,000 Zoom user credentials have been stolen and sold on the dark web for less than a PENNY each More than a half a million Zoom user credentials were found on the dark web Hackers in a forum were selling accounts for less than a penny each  The buckets included passwords, meeting URLS … Read more