Instagram on Thursday said it was not the source of private contact information for millions of influential users of the service recently found in an unguarded online database. The online cache of data, which was discovered by a security researcher, was written about Monday by news site TechCrunch, which reported that it was traced back to Mumbai-based social media marketing firm Chtrbox. “We take any allegation of data misuse seriously,”…

Authorities in Europe this week said they took down Bestmixer.io, one of the leading cryptocurrency mixing service in the world.  The takedown was possible due to a collaboration between the Dutch Fiscal Information and Investigation Service (FIOD), Europol, and authorities in Luxembourg.  The investigation into the service was launched in June 2018 by the FIOD, with the support from security company McAfee. As part of the investigation, six servers in…

The skimmer used in a recently discovered Magecart attack on a Magento-based e-commerce website was posing as a payment service provider via a rogue iframe, Malwarebytes reports. The Magecart hackers made a name for themselves last year, after a series of high-profile attacks, such as those on Ticketmaster, British Airways, or Newegg.  The hackers changed tactics following detailed reports on the activity of multiple groups, but the attacks continued, with…