Crypto hacker offered reward after $600m heist
Crypto hacker offered reward after $600m heist
Cybercrime , Cybercrime as-a-service , Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) Australian Politician Argues ‘Releasing the Hounds’ Necessary to Deter Attacks Jeremy Kirk (jeremy_kirk) • June 7, 2021 The Australian Parliament Building in Canberra A member of Australia’s Parliament is calling for the government’s spy agency to take offensive action against some of the…
Unknown attackers recently attempted to carry out a large-scale supply-chain attack by introducing malicious code to the official PHP GIT repository. If the developers hadn’t noticed the backdoor in time, it could have ended up on many Web servers and led to the largest supply-chain attack in history. What happened with PHP The programmers who…
Blockchain & Cryptocurrency , Cryptocurrency Fraud , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Experts Warn of Continued Scrutiny in Cryptocurrency Markets Dan Gunderman (dangun127) • September 3, 2021 The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission this week announced civil action against defunct cryptocurrency lending platform BitConnect; its founder, Satish Kumbhani; and its top U.S. promoter, Glenn…
New critical remote code execution vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s enterprise Exchange Server have been discovered, and the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) is urging users to apply the patches for them as soon as possible to prevent systems compromises. The vulnerabilities are easy to exploit, do not require any user interaction, and affect Exchange Server 2013,…
Facial recognition tech: Not just for IDing criminals By Susan Miller Aug 25, 2021 Federal agencies are expanding their use of facial recognition technology, especially for authenticating users before granting them digital access to devices. According to an Aug. 24 Government Accountability Office report, 18 of the 24 agencies surveyed used FRT for…
Specialists of the information security company Proofpoint spoke about a Chinese cybercriminal group that hacks into Gmail accounts using a browser extension. Cyber criminal group TA413 has been active for almost a decade and is usually associated by experts with the LuckyCat and ExileRAT malware, and its victims are mostly Tibetans. In early 2021, TA413…