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Saturday, February 22, 2020

Hacks of the week


 Details of 10.6 million MGM hotel guests posted on a hacking forum 

Chinese hackers have breached online betting and gambling sites

A DivvyCloud report finds 196 data breaches exposed more than 33 billion records due to environments without appropriate security.

Iranian hackers have been hacking VPN servers to plant backdoors in companies around the world

Chili's says customers' payment information compromised in data breach

SAMSAM Ransomware Hits US Hospital, Management Pays $55K Ransom

SmokeLoader Malware Found Spreading via Fake Meltdown/Spectre Patches

New KillDisk Variant Hits Financial Organizations in Latin America

GhostTeam Adware Can Steal Facebook Credentials

‘Hacking Incident’ Impacts Nearly 280,000 Medicaid Patients

Hackers Hijack DNS Server of BlackWallet to Steal $400,000

U.S. Cyber Command Operation Disrupted Internet Access of Russian Troll Factory on Day of 2018 
Midterms


UPnP-enabled Connected Devices in the Home and Unpatched Known Vulnerabilities
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