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Raft of Australian companies compromised in hosting service hack

The Black Basta ransomware gang has posted details of a hack affecting nearly a dozen Australian organisations.

A ransomware gang has posted dozens of Australian passports and driver’s licenses to the dark web after apparently compromising a cloud-based hosting service.

The Black Basta gang has not disclosed who the hosting service is, however, referring to the victim only as “hvd.host”.

What the gang has shared, however, is a list of mostly Australian businesses whose data the gang is threatening to publish if a ransom isn’t paid by March 9. Thirteen companies are listed by the gang.

Black Basta listed the companies by their websites as…

As a website owner, getting your site hacked can be your worst nightmare. While a large number of sites are considered safe because they rely on WordPress, that doesn’t mean they’re not prone to attack by hackers. In fact, many are being targeted by a widespread WordPress vulnerability known as the AnonymousFox, which targets the system files by exploiting vulnerable plugins to gain unauthorized access.

So, what is this incognito hack, and how does it attack? What type of damage can it inflict on your website and on your visitors?

What Is the AnonymousFox?

True to its name, AnonymousFox has been successful in concealing its identity as no one is sure about which hacking group owns or operates it.

What we do know is that this vulnerability is usually found sites running…

The hack that exposed the details of 1.2 million GoDaddy customers has spread to six more web hosts. As Search Engine Journal reports, the six additional web hosts are all resellers of GoDaddy’s WordPress hosting services and include 123Reg, Domain Factory, Heart Internet, Host Europe, Media Temple, and tsoHost.

Customers of at least two of these web hosting companies have been sent emails very similar to the one GoDaddy sent out regarding the security breach. The hack they experienced also targeted Managed WordPress accounts and managed to leak email addresses, customer numbers, WordPress Admin passwords, sFTP database usernames and passwords for active customers, and in some cases SSL private keys.

WordPress security plugin maker Wordfence confirmed the hack has spread to these web…

The credit card numbers and online activity of people frequenting several far-right websites have been compromised after the Anonymous hacktivist collective breached Epik. Epik is a web-hosting company known for serving groups such as the Oath Keepers and social media networks Gab and Parler.

After a massive data dump by Anonymous, users of websites hosted by Epik were notified their credit card numbers and other personal information may have been compromised. In a breach notification report to the state of Maine filed on Sept. 20, Epik’s attorney said 110,000 people were affected by the data breach.

In addition to exposed credit card numbers, internet investigators have been combing through the data dump to “out” people who have expressed supposed white supremacist and far-fight views…