Three US-based universities were targeted by the NetWalker ransomware group over the last seven days. A ransomware gang claims to have successfully attacked three universities within the last seven days. They say that their latest attack was against the University of California San Francisco, or UCSF, on June 3. Cointelegraph had access to the evidence […]
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Hackers stole over 5,000 email addresses from Coinsquare’s database and aim to use it for SIM swapping. Hackers stole almost 50,000 email addresses from Canada-based cryptocurrency exchange, Coinsquare. Now, they’re hoping to use the data to perform SIM swapping attacks. One of the alleged hackers involved in the attack spoke to VICE Motherboard on June […]
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The crypto industry has the best historical moment to change the discourse about crypto and its reputation into a successful innovative tech sector. Blockchains reached a feverish level of hype following the ICO mania of 2017. Peddled as the panacea to the world’s ills, many of such promises ill-intentioned, initial coin offerings raised enormous sums […]
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An ongoing ransomware attack targets the public services infrastructure of Weiz. Malware team, NetWalker, launched a ransomware attack against the Austrian village of Weiz. This attack affected the public service system and leaked some of the stolen data from building applications and inspections. According to the cybersecurity firm, Panda Security, hackers managed to penetrate the […]
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Cyble Research Team unveiled a new massive data dump of credit cards for sale on the dark web. New research by cybersecurity firm, Cyble Research Team, revealed that on May 29, data for more than 80,000 credit cards were put up for sale on the dark web. The data from these cards appears to have […]
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As COVID-19 has the financial system more internet-dependent than ever, Congress is worried that the United States’ cyber defenses are not up to the current challenge. In a May 28 virtual roundtable before the congressional Subcommittee on National Security, International Development and Monetary Policy, witnesses and congresspeople alike feared that they are not keeping up […]
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Microsoft unveiled a new human-operated ransomware called “PonyFinal” that deploys the attack by launching manually a payload. Microsoft’s security team revealed a new ransomware that is deployed in human-operated attacks. It uses “brute force” against a target company’s systems management server, and mainly has targeted the healthcare sector amid the COVID-19 crisis. According to a […]
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Representatives of companies that were allegedly hacked strongly deny the allegations, stating that the exploit had been fixed years ago. According to a report by an online monitoring web portal, Under the Breach, a hacker was able to penetrate the privacy protocols of major firms such as Trezor, Ledger and Bnktothefuture on May 24 and […]
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Thousands of enterprise computers have been infected with a cryptojacking malware that installs a Monero mining app. The Blue Mockingbird malware gang has infected more than 1000 business systems with Monero mining malware since December 2019. The global scale of the hacker group’s operations was revealed by cloud security firm Red Canary on May 26. […]
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The teenage hacker who allegedly stole $23.8 million in crypto from Michael Terpin may have threatened the life of a 16-year-old enlisted to help launder the money. Ellis Pinksy, the hacker who allegedly masterminded the theft of $23.8 million worth of crypto from pioneering investor, Michael Terpin, planned on retiring after the heist at the […]
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