Month: July 2024

E-commerce platform Shopify denies it suffered a data breach after a threat actor began selling customer data they claim was stolen from the company’s network. “Shopify systems have not experienced a security incident,” Shopify told BleepingComputer. “The data loss reported was caused by a third-party app. The app developer intends to notify affected customers.” This statement…

Europol is proposing solutions to avoid challenges posed by privacy-enhancing technologies in Home Routing that hinder law enforcement’s ability to intercept communications during criminal investigations. The agency has previously highlighted in its Digital Challenges series that law enforcement problem of end-to-end encryption on communication platforms is a hurdle when it comes to collecting admissible evidence. The case…

Internet giant Cloudflare reports that its DNS resolver service, 1.1.1.1, was recently unreachable or degraded for some of its customers because of a combination of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) hijacking and a route leak. The incident occurred last week and affected 300 networks in 70 countries. Despite these numbers, the company says that the impact was “quite…

Hackers have leaked what they claim is Ticketmaster barcode data for 166,000 Taylor Swift Eras Tour tickets, warning that more events would be leaked if a $2 million extortion demand is not paid. In May, a well-known threat actor named ShinyHunters began selling data on 560 million Ticketmaster customers for $500,000. Ticketmaster later confirmed the…

A new ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) called Eldorado emerged in March and comes with locker variants for VMware ESXi and Windows. The gang has already claimed 16 victims, most of them in the U.S., in real estate, educational, healthcare, and manufacturing sectors. Researchers at cybersecurity company Group-IB monitored the Eldorado’s activity and noticed its operators promoting the malicious service on…