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Social Media Memory App Timehop Hacked, 21 Million Users Impacted – Worldwide
A mobile app that mines your social networking accounts for posts from the past has reported a major hacking incident. The app, Timehop, has more than 21 million users. Every single one of them was impacted by the breach. Timehop users can plug the app into their Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Dropbox accounts. Timehop uses the access to those services to put together nostalgic daily collections of past posts. In their listings on Google Play and the App Store, Timehop describes what it does saying that “it’s like throwback Thursday every day.” That makes it easy to see why hackers would target Timehop’s systems. Gaining access could allow them to steal user data and potentially gain access to years of sensitive social media activity, too.
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Blacktech APT Steals D-Link Cert For Cyber-Espionage Campaign – Worldwide
A lesser-known cyber-espionage group known as BlackTech has been caught earlier this month using a stolen D-Link certificate to sign malware deployed in a recent campaign. “The exact same certificate had been used to sign [official] D-Link software; therefore, the certificate was likely stolen,” says Anton Cherepanov, a security researcher for Slovak antivirus company ESET, and the one who discovered the stolen cert. Cherepanov says BlackTech operators used the stolen cert to sign two malware payloads —the first is the PLEAD backdoor, while the second is a nondescript password stealer. According to a 2017 Trend Micro report, the BlackTech group has used the PLEAD malware in the past. Just like in previous attacks, the group’s targets for these most recent attacks were again located in East Asia, particularly in Taiwan. The password stealer isn’t anything special, being capable of extracting passwords from only four apps —Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Microsoft Outlook.
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‘Disturbing’ Rise In Hate Crimes – California, United States
As the national discourse on race, religion and sexual orientation became increasingly heated in 2017, the number of hate crimes in California jumped significantly for the third consecutive year. According to an annual report from the state Department of Justice, released Monday, hate crimes reported by law enforcement agencies rose by 17.4 percent from 2016 to 2017. That follows double-digit increases in 2015 and 2016, after six years of steady decline. The number of hate-crime incidents in 2017 increased in every major category — race, religion and sexual orientation. African Americans and gay men were most likely to fall victim to hate crimes. African Americans were targets in 27.6 percent of 2017 hate crimes, with gay men the victims in 15.7 percent. However, Latinos or Hispanics were increasingly the subjects of hate crimes, with a 51.8 percent increase over 2016 as debate raged over illegal immigration and a wall at the nation’s southern border.
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