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‘Al-Toufan’ Hackers Take Down Bahrain International Airport Website

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A hacking group known as Al-Toufan has claimed responsibility for attacks on the
websites of Bahrain’s international airport, state news agency and chamber of
commerce.

Al Toufan – “The Flood” in Arabic – took down the Bahrain International Airport
site on Tuesday, along with the sites of the state-run Bahrain News Agency and
the Bahrain Chamber of Commerce, reports
[https://apnews.com/article/technology-persian-gulf-tensions-bahrain-9bd1288487bac78362fe4dca0c19a7f4]
The Associated Press.

The

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Hackers who breached grocery service Weee! leak details of over 11 million orders online

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Details of over 11 million orders from US-based grocery delivery platform Weee!
Were leaked on the cybercriminal-operated BreachedForums last week.

According to a data broker called ‘IntelBroker,’ the food delivery service was
breached this month, exposing over 1.1 million unique email addresses and order
details including customer names, phone numbers and even delivery notes for
couriers that include residential or office building access codes.

“In approximately February 2023, the Asian and H

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Lazarus Group Uses New Mixer to Launder $100 Million in Stolen Crypto Assets

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Lazarus Group, the notorious cybercrime gang, has been spotted circumventing US
crypto mixers restrictions by using a newly available service to launder stolen
crypto assets.

According to blockchain analysis company Elliptic, the North Korean cybercrime
posse has obfuscated transfers amounting to roughly $100 million in pillaged
Bitcoin since October.

Crypto mixers, also referred to as tumblers, are a service that blends many
users’ crypto assets, attempting to obfuscate the owners and origins

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Apple Patches First Zero-Day Flaw Reported in 2023 on iOS and macOS

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Apple this week is rolling out patches to iPhone and Mac users to address a new
WebKit flaw that hackers are said to be exploiting in the wild.

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-23529, is a new type confusion issue in
the web-rendering WebKit engine used by all Apple products.

According to the advisory, the bug can be exploited to compromise vulnerable
iPhones, iPads and Macs by “processing maliciously crafted web content.”

In plain English, an attacker can gain a foothold on the target

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Ransomware attackers steal over 3 million patients’ medical records

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A ransomware attack has again put the personal information of innocent parties
at risk after it was revealed that a data breach has potentially exposed the
medical records of more than three million people.

The Californian-based Regal Medical Group says that it suffered a data breach in
December 2022, after malicious hackers accessed information from itself and its
affiliates Affiliated Doctors of Orange County (ADOC) Medical Group, Greater
Covina Medical, and Lakeside Medical Organization.

In

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What’s love got to do with it? 4 in 5 Valentine’s Day-themed spam emails are scams, Bitdefender Antispam Lab warns

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In cybersecurity, Valentine’s Day always heralds one thing: a scam wave washing
across the digital landscape.

Threat actors are always looking to defraud digital citizens ahead of Feb. 14,
some last-minute shopping for a loved one or the need to connect with someone
could turn into a dangerous mash-up.

In 2023, the mid-February celebration of love is preceded by a deluge of
unsolicited correspondence that aims to lure people into giving out personal
information or purchasing a romantic gift fo

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Leaky database at India-based social media app Slick exposes personal info of kids online

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Compliments-based social media app Slick has been discovered to have leaked
personal information of over 150,000 users for at least two months.

Slick is a Bengaluru-based social media platform launched in November 2022,
primarily aimed at teenagers and college students. The app is available for iOS
and Android, allowing users to connect with friends and create anonymous
compliment pools that can be shared with others.

According to security researcher Anurag Sen who discovered the misconfigured

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City of Oakland Hit by Ransomware

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Hackers have infiltrated the IT infrastructure of Oakland, forcing the San
Francisco Bay area metropolis to take systems offline as it works to secure and
restore services, the city government said in a notice.

For now, visitors of oaklandca.gov are greeted with a red banner saying:

“Oakland is experiencing a network outage. Several non-emergency systems
including voicemail within the City of Oakland are currently impacted or
offline. Thank you for your patience while we work to restore servic

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Hackers Breach Namecheap Email Account, Launch Aggressive Phishing Campaign

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Namecheap, one of the world’s leading domain registrars, has been hit by a
security incident that allowed perpetrators to launch an aggressive phishing
campaign.

After breaching Namecheap’s email account Sunday night, hackers attempted to
weaponize it by sending a flood of phishing emails impersonating DHL and
MetaMask.

The malicious campaigns started around 4:30 PM ET aiming to steal sensitive
information and crypto assets from customers of the services impersonated.
Threat actors sent the ro

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Dallas Central Appraisal District paid $170,000 to ransomware attackers

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A Dallas state agency has admitted to paying $170,000 to hackers after it
suffered a ransomware attack.

The Dallas Central Appraisal District (DCAD) that determines the value of all of
the county’s real and personal property for taxation purposes, publicly
disclosed [https://www.dallascad.org/News.aspx?ID=1] that it had been hacked on
November 8, 2022.

The agency had fallen foul of a ransomware attack that disrupted all of its
computer systems and knocked its website [https://dallascad.org/]

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