Crypto Hack Earned Crooks $600 Million

Joe Biden last night declared “America is back” as he arrived in Britain for his first trip abroad as US president. The US president also declared that he wanted to see Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, face-to-face to “let him know what I want him to know.

Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management Agencies Say Russia’s SVR Continues to Target Vulnerable Networks Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • April 26, 2021     The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency are warning of continued cyberthreats stemming from Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, or SVR, which the…

Pegasus – possibly the most powerful piece of spyware ever developed – has been found on mobile phones around the world. A major investigation is alleging that the malware was used to hack the phones of politicians, activists and prominent news editors worldwide. The hacking software – or spyware – is marketed and licensed to…

Electronic Arts, the publisher of the Battlefield series and many other popular video game franchises, has been hacked. On multiple underground hacking forums, Motherboard found hackers claiming they had taken more than 780GB of data from the company. According to screenshots seen by the outlet, the trove includes the source code for FIFA 2021 and both…

Application Security , Governance & Risk Management , IT Risk Management Exploits Could Enable Remote Attacks on MS IIS and SQL Rashmi Ramesh • August 4, 2021     Researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 say they have demonstrated how exploits of Microsoft Jet Database Engine vulnerabilities could lead to remote attacks on Microsoft…

A new cyber espionage group named Gelsemium has been linked to a supply chain attack targeting the NoxPlayer Android emulator that was disclosed earlier this year. The findings come from a systematic analysis of multiple campaigns undertaken by the APT crew, with evidence of the earliest attack dating back all the way to 2014 under…