Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management Darknet Market Only Accepts Monero, Promotes Malware and Botnets, Bans Ransomware Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • August 12, 2021 The new AlphaBay darknet market’s homepage (Source: Elliptic) The notorious AlphaBay darknet marketplace appears to be getting rebooted. See Also: Live Webinar | Password…
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…
Photo by Yuriko Nakao/Getty Images) One of the biggest cryptocurrency heists on record is gradually being reversed, as hacker “Mr. White Hat” continues to return the stolen assets to Poly Network. Poly Network, a peer-to-peer DeFi platform, said on Wednesday that a vulnerability in its code led to a heist of $610 million in assets…
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…
Accenture officials are saying they staved off a ransomware attack this week by a cybercriminal ring using the LockBit malware even as the hacker group claimed to have captured data from the massive global IT and business consulting firm and has threatened to release it. A CNBC reporter on Aug. 11 sent out a series…
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…
Crypto Hack Earned Crooks $600 Million
Afghanistan’s government still hopes a political settlement with the Taliban might be possible, the country’s ambassador to the US, Adela Raz has said. She told BBC World News that the government of Afghanistan and its people were ready for a political settlement. “There is no deal yet but we are not giving up hope, we…
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…
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…
