Crypto hacker offered reward after $600m heist

Rapid7 recently announced its purchase and acquisition of IntSights, a contextualized external threat intelligence and proactive threat remediation provider, for $335 million.  Rapid7 offers an extensive cybersecurity portfolio for businesses, including user analytics behavior analytics, SIEM, SOAR, and vulnerability management. Additionally, it offers managed security services and security consulting. Meanwhile, IntSights provides the full benefits…

A hacker who stole more than $600 million in one of the largest ever cryptocurrency heists has returned over half of what they took. Poly Network, a decentralised finance (DeFi) platform, said the hacker had sent back $256 million on Binance Smart Chain, $3.3 million in Ethereum and $1 million in Polygon as of 11th…

Researchers: ‘Jian’ Hacking Tool Targeted Zero-Day Flaw in Windows Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • February 22, 2021     A Chinese hacking group reportedly “cloned” and deployed a zero-day exploit developed by the U.S. National Security Agency’s Equation Group before Microsoft patched the Windows vulnerability that was being exploited in 2017, according to an analysis published…

Hackers leak 751GB of compressed EA data containing FIFA 21 source code. Data dump comes from a hack that took place in June 2021. EA says no player data was included in the stolen data, confirmed by the data leaked this week. The hackers who breached Electronic Arts last month have released the entire cache…

A senior official at the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has said that ransomware attacks in America are to be investigated with a similar urgency as incidences of terrorism. The official told news agency Reuters that cyber-assaults using this particular type of malware are to be prioritized more highly now following a passel of ransomware attacks against entities…