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GitHub Arctic Vault Likely Contains Leaked MedData Patient Records GitHub Arctic Code Vault has likely captured sensitive patient medical records from multiple healthcare facilities in a data leak attributed to MedData. The private data was leaked on GitHub repositories last year whose contributors carry the “Arctic Code Vault” badge. This means, these repositories could now be a part of a
MacKenzie Scott Grant Scam More Widespread Than Initially Thought A massive phishing campaign reaching tens of thousands of inboxes impersonated the MacKenzie Bezos-Scott grant foundation promising financial benefits to recipients in exchange of a processing fee. Known as an “advance fee,” this scam has been practiced since before then internet and became popularized by its
Image: John Schnobrich The US Department of Justice warns of phishing attacks using fake post-vaccine surveys to steal money from people or tricking them into handing over their personal information. Attackers promise potential victims cash or prizes for filling out the fake surveys. Instead, they only harvest the filled-out personally identifiable information to fuel fraud schemes
Coinhive Domain Repurposed To Warn Visitors Of Hacked Sites, Routers After taking over the domains for the notorious Coinhive in-browsing Monero mining service, a researcher is now displaying alerts on hacked websites that are still injecting the mining service’s JavaScript. CoinHive was an in-browser cryptocurrency mining platform that allowed websites to inject JavaScript code into