A startup called Farnsworth & Co. has found a niche in the dark overlap between surveillance, malware, and civil litigation. Their product? Personal data stolen from infected computers—now available for purchase by debt collectors, divorce lawyers, and anyone with a grudge and a budget.
The company’s entire business hinges on access to data siphoned off by infostealer malware. This kind of software quietly grabs login credentials, browsing histories, cookies, emails, and contact lists from unsuspecting users. It then bundles the stolen data into searchable profiles. Farnsworth, for its part, packages this information and sells it as “intelligence services.” [Read more…]
A surveillance app marketed as a stealthy tool for parents has exposed sensitive data from over 62,000 users, raising fresh concerns about the real audience for apps like it.
Hackers posing as IT support are targeting employees at large companies to sneak into their Salesforce systems and steal data. They start with a phone call, pretending to help with a routine issue. The real goal? To get the employee to connect to a fake version of Salesforce’s Data Loader tool. Once that happens, the attackers can quietly grab sensitive company data.