Cybercriminals Hold $115,000-Prize Contest to Find New Cryptocurrency Hacks – KK Hack Labs

The two-count indictment, which was returned in May and kept under seal until now, charges Ding Xiaoyang, Cheng Qingmin, and Zhu Yunmin were officers with the Hainan State Security Department, a provincial branch of China’s Ministry of State Security, or MSS. A fourth charged individual, Wu Shurong, was charged as a computer hacker who created…

Ethical hackers now have many more targets within the Defense Department, DOD officials announced. The department is expanding its Vulnerability Disclosure Program to include all publicly accessible DOD information systems. The program grew out of the success of the “Hack the Pentagon” initiative that began in 2016. That initiative enabled the Defense Digital Service…

3rd Party Risk Management , Critical Infrastructure Security , Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks But Attempts to Manipulate Votes, Change Outcome Were Unsuccessful Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • March 16, 2021     A pair of U.S. intelligence agency reports released Tuesday conclude that Russia and Iran tried to interfere in the 2020 presidential election, but attempts…

WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – Colonial Pipeline began to slowly restart the nation’s largest fuel pipeline network on Wednesday (May 12) after a ransomware attack shut the line, triggering fuel shortages and panic buying in the south-eastern United States. It will take several days for the 5,500 mile (8,850km) pipeline to return to normal operations, Colonial said,…

Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management Report: Pen Testing Tool a Favorite Among Lower-Level Threat Groups Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • June 30, 2021     The solid blue line tracks the number of organizations Proofpoint saw being targeted by attackers using Cobalt Strike. (Source: Proofpoint) The legitimate security penetration testing tool…

Image: Francisco Gonzalez The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has warned of a massive increase in sextortion complaints since the start of 2021, resulting in total financial losses of more than $8 million until the end of July. The federal agency received over 16,000 sextortion complaints until July 31, almost half of them coming from…