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Experts investigate WhatsApp data leak: 500M user records for sale

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Cybernews investigated a data sample available for sale containing up-to-date mobile phone numbers of nearly 500 million WhatsApp users. The dataset for sale also allegedly has nearly 10 million Russian and over 11 million UK citizens’ phone numbers. We will update the article as soon as we learn more. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs Malware Newsletter – Round 5

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Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter)

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Web developers SitePoint discloses a data breach

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The website, and publisher of books, courses and articles for web developers, SitePoint discloses a data breach that impacted 1M users. SitePoint is an Australian-based website, and publisher of books, courses and articles for web developers. The total volume of data available for sale is composed of 368.8

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Prometheus and Grief – two new emerging ransomware gangs targeting enterprises. Mexican Government data is published for sale.

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Just recently, the group has published a stolen data allegedly belonging to the Mexican Government which still remains available for sale today, and possibly becoming the first cybercriminal group that has touched a major state in Latin America on such a level. Mexican Government data is published for sale. Thanos ransomware (a.k.a.

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Ukrainian police arrested Ransomware gang behind attacks on 50 companies

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The suspects face multiple criminal charges, including money laundering, unauthorized access to computers and networks, and the creation, use, distribution, and sale of malware and hacking tools. 361-1 (Creation for the use, distribution or sale of malicious software or hardware, as well as their distribution or sale), Art.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 270

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Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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SecurityAffairs Top 10 cybersecurity posts of 2022

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These are the most-read cybersecurity articles that have been published by SecurtiyAffairs in 2022. 2 – Updated: Data of 400 Million Twitter users up for sale. 2 – Updated: Data of 400 Million Twitter users up for sale. 7 – Experts investigate WhatsApp data leak: 500M user records for sale.