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MGM Resorts 2019 data breach is much larger than initially reported of 10.6 million guests. It is believed to have impacted more than 142 million hotel guests. The hacker is selling the information on the dark web for a price of just over $2,900. https://twitter.com/FinancialXpress/status/1282977716459855873

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This morning, it was announced that that a hacker has breached the backend servers belonging to DataViper, a data leak monitoring service managed by Vinny Troia, the security researcher behind Night Lion Security, a US-based cyber-security firm. The hacker, who spent three months inside DataViper servers, claims to have stolen more than 8,200 databases that Troia had indexed for the DataViper data leak monitoring service. The exfiltrated databases contain the information of billions of users that was leaked during past security breaches from DataViper’s “data leak detection” service. The hacker, via a link to a dark web portal, shared the…

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As reported by The Guardian, one of Catalonia’s most senior politicians has been warned his mobile phone was targeted using spyware its makers say is only sold to governments to track criminals and terrorists. A joint investigation by the Guardian and El País has revealed that the speaker of the Catalan regional parliament, Roger Torrent and at least two other pro-independence supporters were told they were targeted last year in what experts said was a “possible case of domestic political espionage” in Europe. According to a US lawsuit, the spyware exploited a previous vulnerability in WhatsApp software that would have given the operator potential access…

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ESET researchers have discovered a new operation within a long-running cyber-espionage campaign in the Middle East, apparently with links to the threat actor group known as Gaza Hackers, or Molerats. Instrumental in the operation is an Android app, Welcome Chat, which serves as spyware while also delivering the promised chatting functionality. The malicious website promoting and distributing the app claims to offer a secure chat platform that is available on the Google Play store. Both those claims are false; the claim of being “secure” couldn’t be further from the truth, according to ESET researchers. “In addition to Welcome Chat being…

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It has been reported that Spotify has stopped working properly, according to users. A strange bug appears to make the iPhone version of the app crash as soon as it is opened. Spotify does not appear to have pushed out a new update to the app. Instead, the issue appears to be a consequence of problems with Facebook’s developers tools. The same issue has led to problems at a wide variety of apps. There appears to be no simple fix for the issue. Deleting and re-installing the app, for instance, does not solve the problem.

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