Crypto hacker offered reward after $600m heist
Crypto hacker offered reward after $600m heist
US intelligence agencies have started to study supply chain threats from Russia, a top official within the Justice Department confirmed on Thursday 6th of May, in the wake of the far-reaching hacker operations that used software developed by SolarWinds as well as other suppliers. SolarWinds Inc. is an American multinational that creates software to…
from the computers-on-blast dept Great news, everyone! The FBI has been fighting a cyberwar on your behalf… perhaps utilizing your own computer. Here’s Zack Whittaker with some details: A court in Houston has authorized an FBI operation to “copy and remove” backdoors from hundreds of Microsoft Exchange email servers in the United States, months after…
Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management Experts Dispute Findings of Report by International Institute for Strategic Studies Rashmi Ramesh • July 14, 2021 Some security experts are questioning the findings of a recent report by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a London-based think tank, that…
Access Management , Application Security , Digital Identity Windows Users Can Now Use Other Methods to Access Microsoft Products Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • September 15, 2021 (Source: Microsoft) Microsoft has officially gone fully passwordless, allowing Windows users to replace their alphanumeric passwords with one of several substitute sign-in technologies to gain entry into…
An IT contractor who carried out a retaliatory cyber-attack after being fired for underperforming has been sent to prison. Indian national Deepanshu Kher was hired by an American IT consulting firm in 2017. The firm sent Kher to the headquarters of a company in Carlsbad, California, to assist the business with its migration to a…
European Banking Authority (EBA) has disclosed that it is one of the victims of the recently revealed Microsoft Exchange Server Hack blamed on Chinese State-backed hackers. Last week Hackread.com reported that Microsoft Exchange Servers were hit by a large-scale cyberattack after Chinese hackers exploited several critical vulnerabilities. Now, it has been…