Hacker behind biggest ever cryptocurrency heist returns stolen funds

Hacker behind biggest ever cryptocurrency heist returns stolen funds

The threat actor who hacked Poly Network’s cross-chain interoperability protocol yesterday to steal over $600 million worth of cryptocurrency assets is now returning the stolen funds. As the Chinese decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Poly Network shared two hours ago, the hacker has already returned almost $260 million worth of stolen cryptocurrency. In total, the attacker…

Patchday: Microsoft meldet abermals Attacken auf Windows

Patchday: Microsoft meldet abermals Attacken auf Windows

Windows-Admins kommen nicht zur Ruhe und müssen das Betriebssystem aufs Neue durch die Installation von Sicherheitspatches vor derzeit stattfindenden Attacken schützen. Diesen Monat kümmert sich Microsoft zum wiederholten Male um Drucker-Lücken und schließt ein Schlupfloch für NTLM-Relay-Angriffe. Am Patchday im August stellt Microsoft knapp 50 Sicherheitspatches über Windows Update bereit. Drei Sicherheitslücken (CVE-2021-36936 Windows Print…

Wave of native IIS malware hits Windows servers

Wave of native IIS malware hits Windows servers

Security researchers warn that multiple groups are compromising Windows web servers and are deploying malware programs that are designed to function as extensions for Internet Information Services (IIS). Such malware was deployed this year by hackers exploiting Microsoft Exchange zero-day vulnerabilities, but a total of 14 groups have been observed using native IIS backdoors and…

‘Not an Afghanistan problem but a humanity problem’ – Gen McMaster

‘Not an Afghanistan problem but a humanity problem’ – Gen McMaster

It is unfair to say Afghans need to fight against Taliban militants by themselves, the former US national security adviser Gen HR McMaster has said. The militants are “the enemies of all civilisation, of all humanity,” he told BBC World News. The Taliban have taken 10 provincial capitals in less than a week. Almost a…

Accenture fends off ransomware attack – Services – Security

Accenture fends off ransomware attack – Services – Security

Accenture on Wednesday confirmed that it was hit by a ransomware attack, with a hacker group using the LockBit ransomware reportedly threatening to release the company’s data and sell insider information. CNBC reporter Eamon Javers Wednesday first broke the news about the attack in a tweet, writing that the hacker group in a post on…

New Android Trojan hijacks Facebook accounts

New Android Trojan hijacks Facebook accounts

A previously unseen Android Trojan dubbed FlyTrap has targeted at least 140 countries since March this year, spreading to more than 10 000 victims via social media hijacking, third-party app stores, and sideloaded applications. This was revealed by Zimperium’s zLabs mobile threat research teams, who recently found several previously undetected applications using the company’s z9…

Hackers Behind the Poly Network Cryptocurrency Hack Return The Stolen Funds

Hackers Behind the Poly Network Cryptocurrency Hack Return The Stolen Funds

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