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The stolen data included customer names, billing and shipping addresses, email addresses, phone numbers as well as hashed and salted passwords and partial credit card numbers.

The world in brief: Uber’s ex-security chief avoids prison time, popular credit card checking service Try2Check dismantled, and more.

Meta said it disrupted three separate cyber-espionage campaigns linked to the Bahamut APT, the Patchwork APT and an unnamed Pakistan-based threat actor.

Active since 2005, Try2Check run tens of millions of credit card checks per year.

Between March and July in 2020 the defendant bought 11 product “packages” on Genesis Market that included 194 sets of stolen account credentials.

Many users think that the lock icon means that a website can be trusted, which is not necessarily true, given that many phishing sites use HTTPS.

The recent attack used a combination of BAT and Bash scripts to destroy files on both Windows and Linux machines.

More than EUR 50.8 million in cash and virtual currencies, 850 kg of drugs, and 117 firearms were seized.

The malware is capable of bypassing fraud detection engines and providing its operators with stealthy, direct access to the infected systems.

The threat actor warned WD that they will put their intellectual property up for sale, including code signing certificates and firmware.