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FTC: US Consumer Reportedly Lost More Than $5.8 Billion to Fraud in 2021
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said on Wednesday that American consumers reported losses of more than $5.8 billion to fraud in 2021, which is an increase of 70% compared to the reported losses in 2020.
In total, the FTC...
Ukrainian Police Arrest Phishing Group that Stole Credit Card Information from More Than 70,000 People
Ukrainian cyberpolice have arrested members of a phishing group that managed to steal credit card data from at least 70,000 people after directing them to fraudulent mobile service sites.
The threat actors used the stolen infor...
Anonymous ERP Platform Leaked Hundreds of Thousands of Records
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The Safety Detectives cybersecurity team discovered a substantial data leak affecting an anonymous Chinese ERP software provider and exposing European customers.
The unclaimed ElasticSearch server has exposed more than 3...
OpenSea Users Lose Over $2 Million in NFTs during Phishing Attack
Non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace OpenSea is investigating a phishing attack on Saturday that left 17 of its users without more than 250 NFTs, worth around $2 million.
NFTs represent data stored on a blockchain (Ethereum) th...
Luxury Children’s Fashion E-commerce Site Exposes Customers Worldwide
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The SafetyDetectives security team discovered a data breach affecting the French children's fashion e-commerce website melijoe.com.
Melijoe is a high-end children’s fashion retailer based in France. An Amazon S3 bucket o...
Ukrainian Government Websites Hit by DDoS Attack
A powerful Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on Wednesday hit the websites of Ukraine’s defense ministry, public radio, and armed forces, along with national banks Privatbank and Oschadbank.
The attackers flooded the...
Hackers Use Microsoft Teams Chats to Deploy Malware
Security researchers warn that some cybercriminals are infiltrating Microsoft Teams accounts to enter chats and spread malicious malware to participants in the conversation.
More than 270 million users rely on Microsoft Teams e...
EU Watchdog Calls for Ban on Pegasus Spyware
The European Union Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) on Tuesday called for a ban on the use and development of Pegasus-like commercial spyware in the region.
The data protection authority called out the technology’s “unprecede...
Q&A With Corey O'Connor – DoControl
Safety Detectives: Please share your company background, how you got started, and your mission.
DoControl: DoControl is a SaaS security company. In 2019, our co-founder and CEO Adam Gavish worked as a product manager on the Goo...
FBI: BlackByte Ransomware Attacks Breached Critical US Infrastructure
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced that the BlackByte ransomware group has breached the networks of at least three organizations from critical US infrastructure sectors over the past three months.
This was f...