Crypto Hack Earned Crooks $600 Million
Crypto Hack Earned Crooks $600 Million
As cybersecurity researchers continue to piece together the sprawling SolarWinds supply chain attack, top executives of the Texas-based software services firm blamed an intern for a critical password lapse that went unnoticed for several years. The said password “solarwinds123” was originally believed to have been publicly accessible via a GitHub repository since June 17, 2018,…
Critical Infrastructure Security , Cybercrime , Cybercrime as-a-service Symantec: China-Linked Actors Investigate SCADA Systems Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • August 7, 2021 An unidentified hacking group with suspected China ties is targeting critical infrastructure in South East Asia as part of a cyberespionage campaign to exfiltrate information about the victim’s SCADA systems. says a…
Global systems integrator Wipro has acquired Melbourne-based managed services provider Ampion for an undisclosed sum. Based in Melbourne, Ampion specialises in cyber security, DevOps and quality engineering services. The company was formed last year following the merger of MSPs Revolution IT and Shelde. Wipro said adding Ampion’s offerings in engineering transformation, DevOps and security consulting…
Following the public release of a Proof-of-Concept (PoC) exploit for a recently disclosed Atlassian Confluence Remote Code Execution (RCE) bug, cybercriminals are actively searching for and abusing it to install cryptocurrency mining malware. CVE-2021-26084 Flaw Damage According to the Atlassian security advisory, this vulnerability impacts Confluence Server and Data Center versions before version 6.13.23, from…
Cybersecurity teams worked feverishly Sunday to stem the impact of the single biggest global ransomware attack on record, with some details emerging about how the Russia-linked gang responsible breached the company whose software was the conduit. An affiliate of the notorious REvil gang, best known for extorting $11 million from the meat-processor JBS after a…
A week after releasing iOS 14.7.1 to the public, Apple today stopped signing iOS 14.7. That means users who have updated their devices or iOS 14.7.1 or even iOS 15 beta can no longer downgrade to iOS 14.7. iOS 14.7.1 was released on July 26 with a fix for a bug that prevented users from…