Yet Another Chrome Update || 1 billion records of Chinese citizens breached
CyberInsights #51
Another zero day in chrome
Another update released by Google for their popular Chrome browser. This fixes a zero day vulnerability again. This is the 4th zero day found in Google Chrome this year.
Take Action:
Short term - Well, Update.
Long term - Consider moving away from Chrome to the Firefox browser as a default for your organisation.
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A billion Chinese PII available for sale
Gigantic civilian data leak if confirmed: A hacker is selling an alleged Shanghai police data leak containing 1 billion Chinese nationals' names, home addresses, ID #, phone #, criminal records, etc. Hacker says it's from an Aliyun (Alibaba) private cloud server.
A record of 1 billion citizens was allegedly leaked in a forum on the dark web. The record was being sold for 10 bitcoins. If this leak is confirmed, it is one of the largest PII leaks ever!
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None as of now.
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