Elon Musk has access to user data from more than 70,000 websites belonging to the US government, healthcare firms and Fortune 500 companies that advertise on Twitter, according to a new bombshell report from Adalytics. The data sharing is enabled through Twitter’s advertising tool called a pixel, which advertisers embed on their website to track,…
DetailsChina has established a secret police presence in Israel as well as dozens of other countries around the world as part of an effort to monitor its citizens abroad, and in some cases spirits them back to the country against their will, a watchdog has said. The 35-page report by Madrid-based Safeguard Defenders, published Sunday,…
DetailsA group of hackers has posted a trove of approximately 50GB of data for sale on two online forums and a Telegram group. The data was posted on 26 and 27th November 2022. This was revealed to Hackread.com by researchers at VPNMentor. A probe into the incident revealed that the data belonged to 29 Israeli…
DetailsThe FBI has joined the investigation into a gun attack at two North Carolina electric substations that left nearly 40,000 homes without power amid freezing temperatures over the weekend. The federal bureau will work with state and local law enforcement to probe whether people protesting a drag show in Moore County intentionally set off power…
DetailsHackers from a cybercriminal group linked to the Chinese government stole at least $20 million from the U.S. in COVID-19 relief benefits, the first known instance of foreign, state-sponsored actors tied to pandemic fraud, Secret Service officials told NBC News. The officials said that Chengdu-based cyber group APT41 was a “notable player” in its hundreds…
DetailsA Chinese security camera company has been advertising ethnicity recognition features to British and other European customers, even while it faces a ban on UK operations over allegations of involvement in ethnic cleansing in Xinjiang. In a brochure published on its website, Hikvision advertised a range of features that it said it could provide in…
DetailsChina has allegedly set up over 100 quasi-police stations in countries across the world to spy on, harass and even repatriate Chinese nationals living abroad, according to CNN, citing the Madrid-based NGO Safeguard Defenders. The organization had first revealed the existence of 54 stations back in September, and has now disclosed the existence of 48 furthers.…
DetailsIran has increased efforts to target critics of the regime living abroad, as well as planning attacks on Israelis and US citizens, often subcontracting the attacks to hired local proxies, according to a Thursday report. Members of the Jewish community and individuals with links to Israel were among those targeted, as well as dissidents and…
DetailsU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Wednesday that personal information of more than 6,000 people in its custody was inadvertently posted to its website for about five hours. The information included names, nationalities, detention centers where the people were held and unique numbers used to identify them in government records, according to Human Rights First,…
DetailsIt is worth noting that the massive WhatsApp data breach involving over 500 million user data does not appear to include any Indian user data. WhatsApp’s recent data breach still remains a mystery to many of them as it is purely based on the screenshots shared and circulated in media. WhatsApp is widely regarded as…
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