Rapidly Growing Electrum Botnet Infects Over 152,000 Users; Steals $4.6 Million

The Hacker News Daily Updates 2019 Cloud BI & Analytics Predictions Is your data strategy ready for what's in store for 2019? Download Now Sponsored LATEST NEWS Apr 30, 2019 Rapidly Growing Electrum Botnet Infects Over 152,000 Users; Steals $4.6 Million An ongoing attack against Electrum Bitcoin wallets has just grown bigger and stronger with attackers now targeting the whole infrastructure of the exchange with a botnet of over 152,000 infected users, raising the amount of stolen users' funds to USD 4.6 million. Electrum has been facing cyber ... Read More Unprotected Database Exposes Personal Info of 80 Million American Households A team of security researchers has claims to have found a publicly-accessible database that exposes information on more than 80 million U.S. households—nearly 65 percent of the total number of American households. Discovered by VPNMentor's research team lead by hacktivists Noam Rotem and Ran ... Read More Docker Hub Suffers a Data Breach, Asks Users to Reset Password Docker Hub, one of the largest cloud-based library of Docker container images, has suffered a data breach after an unknown attacker gained access to the company's single Hub database. Docker Hub is an online repository service where users and partners can create, test, store and distribute Docker ... Read More New York, Canada, Ireland Launch New Investigations Into Facebook Privacy Breaches Facebook has a lot of problems, then there are a lot of problems for Facebook—and both are not going to end anytime sooner. Though Facebook has already set aside $5 billion from its revenue to cover a possible fine the company is expecting as a result of an FTC investigation over privacy ... Read More Critical Unpatched Flaw Disclosed in WordPress WooCommerce Extension If you own an eCommerce website built on WordPress and powered by WooCommerce plugin, then beware of a new, unpatched vulnerability that has been made public and could allow attackers to compromise your online store. A WordPress security company—called "Plugin Vulnerabilities"—that recently gone ... Read More 2019 Cloud BI & Analytics Predictions Is your data strategy ready for what's in store for 2019? Download Now Sponsored This email was sent to balvistudio4.raaj@blogger.com. You are receiving this newsletter because you opted-in to receive relevant communications from The Hacker News. To manage your email newsletter preferences, please click here. Contact The Hacker News: info@thehackernews.com Unsubscribe The Hacker News | Pearls Omaxe, Netaji Subash Place, Pitampura, Delhi 110034 India