Dark Web

Facebook said that the reason for the recent data leakage of more than 530 million users was not a hacker breach of its systems. Attackers gained access to information by extracting data from web resources or so-called web scraping.

Users from 106 countries were affected, including 32 million profiles from the USA, 11 million from the UK, and 6 million from India. Facebook said this data was extracted using a vulnerability that the company patched in 2019.

Kaspersky Lab cannot make an unambiguous conclusion whether the offers for the sale of vaccines on the darknet are scams or whether buyers really get what they are looking for.

The US Department of Justice confiscated 69,370 bitcoins. With the current rate, it approximately equals $1,06 billion. It is the largest amount of cryptocurrency that the US authorities have ever seized.

Zoom is having more severe problems. About 530,000 accounts were sold for pennies, and some were even given away for free. Many companies, including Google, have barred employees from using the service.