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Apr 6, 2021 4:00 AM PT A rich cache of data on some 533 million Facebook users was posted to a hacker forum over the weekend and is available to download for practically free. The information is from a data breach that occurred in 2019, but hasn't been widely available until now. The data was posted to an English-speaking cybercriminal forum called RaidForums by a hacker going by the handle TomLiner. "The Facebook data was first listed for sale on RaidForums on June 6, 2020, but the initial sale allegedly asked users for US$30,000 in exchange for the data," explained Ivan Righi, a cyber threa...

minute read Share this article: The zero-day flaw research group has revised its disclosure of the technical details of vulnerabilities in the hopes of speeding up the release and adoption of fixes. Google Project Zero will now give organizations a 30-day grace period to patch zero-day flaws it discovers in a new disclosure policy revealed this week aimed at speeding up the time it takes for patches to be adopted. Known for discovering a number of high-profile zero days—in Google’s own products as well as those found in rival Apple’s software—Project Zero last year began...

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland arrives to address the staff on his first day at the Department of Justice March 11, 2021 in Washington, DC. The decision by Justice to dismantle ‘hundreds’ of web shells installed using Exchange Server vulnerabilities is being hailed as a landmark use of a new authority. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch-Pool/Getty Images) The decision by the Department of Justice announced Tuesday to dismantle ‘hundreds’ of web shells installed using Exchange Server vulnerabilities, mitigating the threat to private servers in bulk, is being hailed as a landmar...

FBI hacks compromised Exchange servers as more companies get targeted SHARE In a possibly unprecedented move, the U.S. Federal Bureau Investigation has obtained a court order to allow it to hack compromised Microsoft Corp. Exchange Servers to remove vulnerabilities as more stories of Exchange servers being targeted continue to emerge. The court order allowed the FBI to copy and remove malicious web shells from hundreds of vulnerable computers that were compromised by so-called Hafnium attacks first revealed by Microsoft security researchers March 2. Hafnium was descr...

FBI Removes Web Shells from Infected Exchange Servers Phil Muncaster UK / EMEA News Reporter , Infosecurity Magazine The US authorities sought a court order to remove web shells running on hundreds of Microsoft Exchange servers, following mass exploitation of vulnerabilities patched in March, it has emerged. The Department of Justice (DoJ) announced the move yesterday, explaining that although system owners managed to remove thousands of malicious scripts from their infected servers, hundreds persisted. Although the attacks started as early as January, one repo...