RaidForums, one of the world’s largest hacking forums, was taken down by police earlier this week. This hacking site, in operation since 2015, helped cybercriminals sell and purchase the hacked personal data of millions of innocen...
Meta (formerly Facebook) took some privacy measures last week to dissuade people from posting images that contain private residential information, while leaving room for some exceptions.
These measures were taken by Meta in an eff...
We recently had the opportunity to sit down with Michael Sonne, CIO of Software AG, and asked him how phishing attacks are concerning every industry.
Safety Detectives: What has your journey to your current job been?
Michael Sonne...
California-based respiratory care provider SuperCare Health has confirmed a data breach that led to the exposure of sensitive personal information for over 300,000 patients.
In a notice on its official webpage, SuperCare said it d...
Google sued a scammer on Monday for allegedly running an online “puppy fraud scheme,” defrauding vulnerable people, including the elderly, out of thousands of dollars with false promises of purebred puppies.
The complaint from Mon...
The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) warned consumers on Tuesday of an increase in money recovery scams.
These scams target people who have already lost money to a previous scam by promising to help victims reco...
Germany’s Central Office for Combating Cybercrime (ZIT) and the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) announced on Tuesday the shutdown of Hydra, one of the world’s most notorious Russian dark web marketplaces.
Since emerging in 20...
The SafetyDetetectives security team discovered a data breach affecting CashMama, a money lending platform based in India, which exposed a comprehensive array of customer data that was invasively collected and stored.
CashMama’s A...
The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has spotted new phishing attempts attributed to the Russian threat group tracked as Armageddon (Gamaredon).
The malicious emails attempt to trick the recipients with decoys...
The State Department’s new cybersecurity bureau officially launched on Monday in an effort to make digital rights issues an integral part of US foreign policy. This move comes at a time when Russia and China are increasingly tryin...
