Hacker Makes Off with $12 Million in Latest DeFi Breach

Hacker Makes Off with $12 Million in Latest DeFi Breach

Cross-Chain Protocol pNetwork Offers Hacker ‘Clean’ $1.5 Million Bug Bounty Dan Gunderman (dangun127) • September 20, 2021     (Source: Executium via Unsplash) Stay tuned for updates on this developing story. See Also: Accelerate Incident Response Times with Automated Investigation In the latest security incident involving a decentralized finance protocol, cross-chain project pNetwork…

France recalls ambassadors from US, Australia over submarines row

France recalls ambassadors from US, Australia over submarines row

France on Friday recalled its ambassadors to the United States and Australia in a ferocious row over the scrapping of a submarine contract, an unprecedented step that revealed the extent of French anger against its allies. President Emmanuel Macron recalled the envoys after Canberra ditched a deal to buy French submarines in favour of US…

New malware can infect Windows and Linux devices; 70 different VirusTotal antvirus can’t detect it

New malware can infect Windows and Linux devices; 70 different VirusTotal antvirus can’t detect it

The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a companion feature released by Microsoft in 2016 to run a Linux image in a near-native environment on Windows, allowing administrators to use Linux command-line tools without using a virtual machine. This was a novel implementation, although immediately doubts about security in this development began to arise. While…

106 arrested in a sting against online fraudsters

106 arrested in a sting against online fraudsters

The Spanish National Police (Policía Nacional), supported by the Italian National Police (Polizia di Stato), Europol and Eurojust, dismantled an organised crime group linked to the Italian Mafia involved in online fraud, money laundering, drug trafficking and property crime. The suspects defrauded hundreds of victims through phishing attacks and other types of online fraud such…

Covid pandemic fuelling financial crime, says UAE Central Bank

Covid pandemic fuelling financial crime, says UAE Central Bank

Follow the latest updates on the Covid-19 pandemic here The Covid-19 pandemic, which shook financial markets and trigged economic chaos last year, has heightened the risk of money laundering and terrorist financing, fraud, cyber attacks, bribery and corruption across the financial system, according to the Central Bank of the UAE. The use of e-commerce services and virtual…

Indonesia says no evidence of alleged Chinese intel hack

Indonesia says no evidence of alleged Chinese intel hack

Indonesian authorities have found no evidence that the country’s main intelligence service’s computers were compromised after a US-based private cybersecurity company alerted them of a suspected breach of its internal networks by a Chinese hacking group, an official said. The Insikt Group, the threat research division of Massachusetts-based Recorded Future, said it discovered the…

Pakistani man sentenced to 12 years in prison for unlocking nearly 2M AT&T phones

Pakistani man sentenced to 12 years in prison for unlocking nearly 2M AT&T phones

A Pakistani man was sentenced to 12 years in prison for his role in a seven-year scheme that involved fraudulent unlocking of over 1.9 million of AT&T phones due to which AT&T, the world’s largest telecommunications company suffered more than $200 million losses. In 2012, Muhammad Fahd, a citizen of Pakistan and Grenada, contacted an…

New licensing conditions for cyber-security service providers to kick in by early 2022, Tech News News & Top Stories

New licensing conditions for cyber-security service providers to kick in by early 2022, Tech News News & Top Stories

SINGAPORE – Cyber-security service providers, which verify if businesses are vulnerable to hacking and monitor information technology systems for suspicious activities, will soon have to be licensed. This aims to give greater assurance of safety to customers and raise the quality of the providers, said the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) on Monday (Sept…

CVE-2021-41073 – Alert Detail – Security Database

CVE-2021-41073 – Alert Detail – Security Database

Executive Summary This vulnerability is currently undergoing analysis and not all information is available. Please check back soon to view the completed vulnerability summary Informations Name CVE-2021-41073 First vendor Publication 2021-09-19 Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2021-09-19 Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3 Cvss vector : N/A Overall CVSS Score NA Base Score NA Environmental Score NA…