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Schneider Electric Confirms Ransom Hack — Hellcat Demands French Bread as ‘Joke’

Richi Jennings — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 17:29:24 +0000

That’s a lot of pain: $125,000 ransom seems small—but why do the scrotes want it paid in baguettes?

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Squarespace Hacked — DeFi Wallets Drained (Imaginary Money Stolen)

Richi Jennings — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 16:26:44 +0000

DeFAIL: Cryptocurrency fans lose their worthless tokens via phishing attacks on decentralized finance sites.

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How are Crypto Phishing Scams Done, and How Do You Avoid Them?

Naimisha — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 08:34:37 +0000

Crypto phishing scams are fraudulent activities designed to steal your cryptocurrency assets, typically by tricking you into revealing your private keys or sending your cryptocurrencies to the scammer’s wallet. These scams often involve deception, social engineering, and manipulation. Here’s how […]

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Hacker Stole $3B Bitcoin — Yes, ‘Crypto’ is Garbage

Richi Jennings — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 15:59:35 +0000

James Zhong admitted to stealing 50,000 bitcoins from the former dark web market, Silk Road—the DoJ has the gory story

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$3 BILLION in DeFi Hacks in 2022—So Far

Richi Jennings — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 19:06:45 +0000

And nothing of value was lost. Again.

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FAIL: Nomad DeFi Bridge ‘Loses’ $190M of Worthless Tokens

Richi Jennings — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 18:18:34 +0000

Cryptocurrency startup Nomad claimed its “optimistic bridging” protocol would “would keep users’ funds safe.” We take a closer look.

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How do Cryptocurrencies Affect Cybersecurity?

Naimisha — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 07:40:06 +0000

The digitization of our world is continuing at an accelerating pace. More and more of our lives and our economy are moving online. Even our money is increasingly digital. We use credit cards and bank transfers to make most of […]

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Crypto.com: Fortune Favors the Hacker—$16M ‘Stolen’

Richi Jennings — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 18:02:52 +0000

DeFi exchange Crypto.com got hacked yesterday, sources say. Users reported imaginary money missing from their accounts—as researchers watched it get laundered.

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SafeDollar Stablecoin not Safe nor Stable: Hack Sends Value to ZERO

Richi Jennings — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 14:17:43 +0000

SafeDollar, a crypto token that’s pegged to the U.S. dollar, crashed this week. The team claim it had been hacked.

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Cyber Security Roundup for August 2019

SecurityExpert — Mon, 02 Sep 2019 01:48:00 +0000

Twitter boss, Jack Doresy, had his Twitter account was hacked at the end of August, with hackers using his account to send a stream of offensive messages to his 4.2 million followers. It appears Jack was using his mobile phone to provide multi-factor authentication access to his Twitter account, a good solid security practice to adopt, however, it appears his Twitter account password and his mobile phone SMS service were both compromised, the latter probably due to either sim card swap fraud social engineering by the hacker, or by an insider at his mobile network service provider.

A database holding over a million fingerprints and personal data was exposed on the net by Suprema, a biometric security company. Researchers at VPNMentor didn't disclose how they were able to find and access the 'Biostar 2' database, nor how long the data was accessible online. Biostar 2 is used by 5,700 organisations, including governments, banks and the UK Metropolitan Police. In a similar fashion, an independent researcher found a 40Gb Honda Motor Company database exposed online.

TfL took their Oyster system offline to 'protect customers' after a credential stuffing attack led to the compromise of 1,200 Oyster customer accounts. A TfL spokesman said 'We will contact those customers who we have identified as being affected and we encourage all customers not to use the same password for multiple sites.' I was also directly made aware that restaurant chain TGI Friday was also hit were a credential stuffing attack(s) after it urgently warned its UK customers on the importance of using strong unique passwords for its reward scheme.

It was another bumper 'Patch Tuesday', with Microsoft releasing security updates for 93 security vulnerabilities, including 31 which are 'critical' rated in Windows, Server 2019, IE, Office, SharePoint and Chakra Core.

Amongst the Microsoft patch release were patches for two serious 'bluekeep' or 'WannaCry' wormable vulnerabilities in Windows Remote Desktop Services, CVE-2019-1181 and CVE-2019-1182. A Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) blog post said Microsoft had found the vulnerabilities as part of a project to make Remote Desktop Services more secure, and stated 'future malware that exploits these could propagate from vulnerable computer to vulnerable computer without user interaction.” The fixes for these are available for download in the Microsoft Security Update Guide.

A United Nations report concluded North Korea funded its weapons programme to the tune of $2 billion from profits from cyber attacks. 'Democratic People’s Republic of Korea cyber actors, many operating under the direction of the Reconnaissance General Bureau, raise money for its WMD (weapons of mass destruction) programmes, with total proceeds to date estimated at up to two billion US dollars,' the UN report said. The report referred at least 35 instances of North Korean-sponsored cryptomining activity or attacks on financial companies and cryptocurrency exchanges. The attacks spanned a total of 17 countries and were designed to generate funds the would be hard to trace and elude regulatory oversight.

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TfL takes the Oyster system offline after Customer Accounts accessed

TGI Fridays frantically warn customers to urgently change app passwords

French ‘Cybercops' dismantle Pirate Computer Network

Twitter boss Jack Dorsey’s account hacked sending out a stream of offensive messages

BioStar 2 Database Leaked One Million Fingerprints and Facial Recognition Data

Capital One accused 'breached 30 other organisations’

A Researcher uses GDPR’s Right of Access to steal others’ personal information

700,000 Choice Hotels Customer Records Compromised