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Leaked somehow, but not breached More than 1.6TB worth of content belonging to Onlyfans was leaked online. The leaked content contains videos and photos of those shared by celebrities for a subscription. Celebrities here includes models, influencers, public figures and sex workers. Now assume the file containing pornographic content that’s now accessible by the public. The leak was immediately caught by fans in Twitter who started making it viral. This soon reason many journalists as Vonny LeClerc....

Cheat Maker Settled Case With Niantic Niantic, the American game developer is known for its popular titles like Pokemon Go, Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, Ingress, etc. In mid-2019, it sued a list of cheat makers for stealing their proprietary code and making tweaked games that can let players use cheat codes, and gain an unfair advantage over genuine players. Since this is degrading the gaming experience of genuine players, Niantic has sued such makers, who include the unregistered firm called Global++, two people named Alen Hundur (aka IOS NOOB), Ryan Hunt (aka ELLIOTROBOT) and twenty other “John Does” back in June 2019....

Improved Features The Snapdragon 460 is said to be bringing flagship features at very low cost. This chip shall have improved AI and enhanced gaming capabilities. This will be the high performing chip of Snapdragon 400 series and features Indian GPS version, NavIC (Navigation with Indian Constellation). GPS is an important feature of every device. Thus, every nation crafting its own version of GPS as Russia’s GLONASS, Europe’s Galileo and China’s BeiDou....

The New Method Ragnar Locker ransomware group has a previous track record of targeting entities, rather than Individuals. This gang has recently hit Energias de Portugal (EDP), and stole 10TB worth data for a ransom price of 1,580 Bitcoin! Ragnar Locker ransomware carefully selects its targets, mostly corporates and governments, and crafts customized malware accordingly. This is to scrape the lumpsum payments in hundreds of thousands of dollars rather than petty tips from home users....

RedLine is an information-stealing malware that collects senstive data from users’ browsers. Last week, a server containing over 6 million records was exposed, belonging to RedLine. Verifying it, there are over 441K unique email IDs that surfaced, which are now added to Have I Been Pwned. Over 441,000 Unique Records A couple of years ago, researchers have detailed a new information-stealing malware called RedLine. This malware is distributed through various means like phishing emails, crack sites, and YouTube scams....

Samsung SmartThings Program Just as any other developer do, Samsung has set its own beta type program called SmartThings for its IoT future. Under this initiative, the company has announced SmartThings Labs, where it will allow users to try out some features even before they’re released. These experimental smart features include turning off the lights when there’s no motion detected in the room, or using dimming lights to wake up gently and others being controllable using a universal remote in your phone....

Shopify Disclosed an Internal Data Breach Shopify is an e-commerce giant providing tools for making online shopping sites. It reports having over one million registered merchants who serve hundreds of millions of customers daily. The company has disclosed a data breach incident yesterday, where it referred two of its employees as rouge. Shopify said that two employees from its support department have allegedly accessed the personal information of a few merchants....

Overall, the country has seen purchasing around 214 million units this year, down from 275 million units last year. This slump was the result of sluggish demand and a supply chain crisis throughout the nation, where it’s strictly following zero-covid policy. Fall of a Major Smartphone Market Making hundreds of millions of smartphone purchases every year, China is the biggest market in the smartphone industry. But, a slump in demand due to ongoing economic turmoil and the recent COVID situation has led the nation to ask less, triggering a significant fall in smartphone shipments this year....

The Infamous Group Sodinokibi is just another data-stealing malware that infects users via malicious links and spreads throughout the network, rapidly. Analysts feel Sodinokibi be an evolution of GandCrab, an infamous group that’s responsible for around 40% ransomware attacks in 2018-19. The group’s recently active of hacking NYC airport, Travelex and also leaking data of a company that failed to pay a ransom in time. While there’s no official statement from the Temple yet, BleepingComputer has overlooked onto an email sent by the victim to its congregation regarding the issue and reported the breach....

SolarWinds Hackers Selling Stolen Data SolarWinds hack was one of the notable incidents that happened in cyberspace in 2020. After Zerologon, the SolarWinds hack was determined to be so critical that, FBI, CISA, and DHSA have issued a joint statement warning about the incident. Now, the hacker group behind this incident has shown up for business. A new site named solarleaks.net was spotted in the wild that has a single static page, selling the stolen data from SolarWinds attack....

MrbMiner Botnet Linked to Iranian Operators MrbMiner was spotted initially by the Tencent Security team in September last year, where they said the mining botnet is operational since the summer of the same year. It starts with brute-force attacking the Microsoft SQL databases having weak passwords, and gain access. Once in, it will then set a backdoor with credentials Default as username and @fg125kjnhn987 as password. This setting is used for transporting the miner payload from various sources, like mrbfile....

While this isn’t huge, it’s estimated that The Pirate Bay could have earned over $6.8 million in Bitcoin donations if it had kept all of them without spending till now. The Pirate Bay’s Bitcoin Earnings While most content piracy sites live on intrusive ads, they also have a donation option to earn from their fans. Though most users don’t care, few loyal visitors donate to keep the site running, and appreciating the pirate’s works....

Named as the “entirety of Twitch.tv‘, the data dump is already being shared among various underground forums, with those who’ve accessed claiming to have found several data parts like unreleased games, SDKs, internal tools, etc owned by Twitch. Twitch Data Leak — Twitch (@Twitch) October 6, 2021 At last, there are few internal red-teaming tools used by Twitch and payouts information of about 2.4 million streamers, from 2019 until now was leaked....

Made and announced by Alec Muffett, a Tor site-making professional and an engineer, the new onion site of Twitter is censorship-resistant. This is aimed at those living in the areas where their respective governments blocked Twitter or censored content. Twitter’s Dark Web Site Censorship is one of the most common issues that citizens face, even though they’re given all the tools to voice their issues and viral them. This is because the government around the world are sanctioning them in the name of national security and privacy, which isn’t always the case....

The latest is an order from the House’s Chief Administrative Officer, banning the TikTok app on all devices held by lawmakers and their staff. All these people are asked to reach out immediately and ensure the app is deleted and prohibited from further installation. Barring Lawmakers From TikTok Moves to ban the most suspicious entertainer – TikTok, in the US have been in full swing, as US lawmakers have decided to prohibit this app from their devices....

This is in favor of the new Communities feature, which WhatsApp rolled out earlier this week. The Communities were given a dedicated tab – replacing the camera for quick access. Well, this was spotted in the latest beta of WhatsApp, which may be shifted elsewhere by the time of a stable update too. WhatsApp Camera vs Communities As promised earlier this year, WhatsApp added a new group chatting feature called Communities to its platform....

How Signal is Secure? Hailed as one of the best private messengers and even endorsed by Edward Snowden. Signal encrypts your chats, voice call, media and allows you to archive chats. It allows you to chat from its dedicated app or through a web browser as a plug-in. You can set timers to self-destruct your messages and since it’s open-source, anyone can check its code for bugs and contribute for its security integrity....

As per the system requirements sheet shared by Microsoft for running Windows 11, installing the new OS requires TPM v2.0 or a TPM v1.2 plus Secure Boot support in your hardware! This may leave most budget PCs out of the equation. Windows 11 Mandatory Hardware Requirement As everyone is eagerly waiting for the next big iteration of Windows OS – v11, most of the budget PCs may not be eligible for running Windows 11 at all, we fear....

Xiaomi Records its Best Growth Xiaomi is famously attributed for producing affordable smartphones. And to make this happen, the Chinese OEM committed to taking thin margins in all its sales, thus choking itself for users. Also, it’s appreciated for supplying software updates regularly, even for older handsets. With all this reputation, the company is credited with the best sales quarter of its life. As per Canalys report, Xiaomi has shipped over 49 million smartphones in Q1 of 2021....

YouTube stated the three tools it uses for letting copyright holders complain about infringing content and its review system in handling them. It’s seen that many are abusing the public tools available for copyright management, and in most cases ruling in favor of the uploader. YouTube Copyright Transparency Report Transparency reports are highly commendable, as they shed light on the working mechanism of particular systems. Google, in the case of YouTube, has released its first-ever transparency report on copyright handling on its platform....