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Breach Forums launches as alternative to mysteriously torpedoed illicit cybercrime community.
Flashpoint analysts examine the factors that may have influenced Raid Forums' closure, as no official government agency or cyber threat actor group has yet to claim responsibility.
After a private investigation initiated by the companies previously attacked by Lapsus$, there is a good chance that the mastermind behind the infamous ransomware gang is just a teenager — a 16-years-old to be exact.
On February 25, Raid Forums—a popular illicit online community notorious for its high-profile large-scale database leaks—was allegedly seized by an unknown identity. As of this publishing, it is not clear why Raid Forums was taken down, or who was responsible. No official government agency in any country has claimed responsibility for seizing the Raid Forums The post Raid Forums Is Down. Who’s Behind Its Apparent Seizure? appeared first on Flashpoint.
533M Facebook user records offered on a hacking forum A database containing details of 533 million Facebook users is being offered on a hacking forum. First spotted April 3 by Alon Gal, chief technology officer of Hudson Rock Ltd., the data was posted by a user called TomLiner on Raid Forums and is claimed to include user names, mobile phone numbers, gender, occupation, city, country, marital status and and in some cases email addresses. The validity of the data has been confirmed by various sites, including Insider. Bleeping Computer noted that the database includ...