Crypto Hack Earned Crooks $600 Million

JBS, the world’s largest beef producer, has confirmed that they paid an $11 million ransom after the REvil ransomware operation initially demanded $22.5 million. On May 31, JBS was forced to shut down some of its food production sites after the REvil ransomware operators breached their network and encrypted some of its North American and Australian IT systems. JBS…

The Russian ambassador in Washington flew back Sunday to the United States saying he hoped to build “equal and pragmatic” ties after a US-Russia summit in Geneva aimed at reducing tensions. The plane transporting ambassador Anatoly Antonov, who was recalled in March for consultations, took off at 9:20 a.m. (0620 GMT) from Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport…

Hackers started exploiting a vulnerability in Atlassian’s Confluence enterprise collaboration product just one week after the availability of a patch was announced. Atlassian informed customers on August 25 that Confluence is affected by a critical vulnerability — described as an OGNL injection issue — that can allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on impacted…

The data of 700 million LinkedIn users leaked on an online hacker forum. This attack follows an earlier leak of users of the business-oriented social media platform. Analysts from Privacy Shark discovered the data in a post by a hacker calling themself “GOD User TomLiner.” The hacker has put the data cache for sale. The…

JERUSALEM: Arch-foes Israel and Iran have long fought an undeclared shadow war across the Middle East, landing blows in Lebanon, Syria and inside the Islamic republic itself. More recently, the battle has moved to the high seas, with a series of mysterious attacks and sabotage incidents mainly in the Red and Arabian Seas. Advertisement Advertisement…