Tag: data mining
‘Brute force’ cyber-attacks continue to escalate
Cybersecurity firm Okta reports a spike in ‘brute-force’ credential-stuffing attacks over the last month. This follows earlier reports of a spike in ‘brute force’ credential-stuffing attacks reported last week. Increasingly sophisticated ‘brute force’ attacks use trial and error techniques to crack passwords, login credentials, and encryption keys. New life is now also being breathed into what is essentially an old hacking technique, with widely available software using artificial intelligence (AI) that can carry out large numbers of attempts automatically.
Facebook’s “Project Ghostbusters” Discovered to Spy on Snapchat Traffic – March 27th
A federal court in California earlier this week released documents that revealed Facebook's 2016 "Project Ghostbusters" campaign. The campaign was designed to mine Snapchat user data to understand their behavior better. The project was a part of Facebook's In-App Action Panel (IAPP) program, which used techniques to intercept and decrypt encrypted app traffic from Snapchat and, later, from YouTube and Amazon.
Facebook Marketplace User Data For Sale – February 14th
A cyber-criminal known as "algoatson" placed the data of over 200,000 Facebook Marketplace users for sale on Breach Forums, an illicit marketplace. The Facebook Marketplace compromised user information including full names, passwords, Facebook IDs, emails, and phone numbers, which was claimed to be stolen on October 2023.