Crypto hacker offered reward after $600m heist
Crypto hacker offered reward after $600m heist
McDonald’s, the world’s largest restaurant chain by revenue, recently revealed that it was the target of a security breach. What Happened? On Friday, the burger chain said it hired external consultants to investigate unauthorized activity on an internal security system, prompted by a specific incident in which the unauthorized access was cut off a week…
Facebook said on Wednesday it had blocked a group of hackers in China who used the platform to target Uighurs living abroad with links to malware that would infect their devices and enable surveillance. The social media company said the hackers, known as Earth Empusa or Evil Eye in the security industry, targeted activists, journalists, and…
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…
Single-factor authentication (SFA) has been added today by the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to a very short list of cybersecurity bad practices it advises against. CISA’s Bad Practices catalog includes practices the federal agency has deemed “exceptionally risky” and not to be used by organizations in the government and the private sector as…
A hacking group related to a Chinese-speaking threat actor has been linked to an advanced cyberespionage campaign targeting government and military organizations in Vietnam. The attacks have been attributed with low confidence to the advanced persistent threat (APT) called Cycldek (or Goblin Panda, Hellsing, APT 27, and Conimes), which is known for using spear-phishing techniques…
CNA Financial, one of the largest insurance companies in the US, reportedly paid hackers $40 million after a ransomware attack blocked access to the company’s network and stole its data, according to a report from Bloomberg’s Kartikay Mehrotra and William Turton. CNA first announced the hack in late March, stating that it had seen a…