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But users paid for it with their data. Using an authentication key that was accidentally published in Sourcegraph's open source code, the attacker gained administrative access to the platform's functions. This resulted in a leak of data from the servers, including license keys, names, and email...

The film included your name, date of birth, identification number, and others. The American media corporation Paramount Global reported a hacker attack, as a result of which attackers gained access to the personal data of just under 100 people. The notices for victims, signed by Nickelodeon...

Distribution of the threat has been suspended, but the developers computers have already been compromised. Software developers have once again been targeted in supply chain attacks. In the library registry Crates.io A number of malicious packages were recently discovered for the Rust...

One of the most high-profile cases of hacking occurred in March 2023, when subscribers were shown false alarm messages. The Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media (Mintsifry) has begun to coordinate the search for reliable protection of the satellite TV signal, which has...

A fraudster from Pennsylvania Anthony Folk received three years in prison for cryptocurrency fraud. A US court has sentenced Anthony Folk, a 26-year-old hacker from Pennsylvania, who, along with his accomplices, deceived cryptocurrency owners and extorted money from them. Faulk received three...

Cyfirma finds out who your EVLF DEV is. The criminal, known in the cyber underground under the pseudonym EVLF DEV, sells two types of CraxsRAT malware. According to researchers, the hacker has been based in Syria for 8 years. On the distribution of Trojans, he managed to earn about $ 75,000...

The ransomware arrow points to the Japanese company's big cybersecurity issues. The Japanese company Seiko, the world leader in luxury watches, has come under a ransomware attack by the notorious hacker group BlackCat (aka ALPHV). On August 10, Seiko released a statement about the hacking of...

This year's top cyber threats that every CISO needs to know about. Every summer, Las Vegas hosts a number of major cybersecurity conferences, including the legendary Black Hat. The event traditionally becomes a platform for announcing and discussing the most relevant cyber threats. Every year...

Linked to the theft of funds from the BSC Token Hub bridge, the wallet faced the liquidation of three positions on the Venus Protocol platform. This was caused by a decrease in the price of BNB below $220, the loss of the attacker amounted to 5.64 million vBNB (~$53.2 million). The wallet...

The decentralized exchange RocketSwap, created on the basis of the Base layer network, was hacked and lost 471 ETH. The hacker who hacked into the exchange created a meme token called LoveRCKT. PeckShieldAlert cybersecurity experts reported that the attacker managed to steal $870,000 worth of...

Discord.io service confirmed the fact of hacking and data leakage of thousands of users. On August 14, 2023, a database of registered users was put up for sale on one of the shadow forums, as well as access to the Discord.io server, a third-party interface for servers of the cross-platform...

A computer hacker who financed the NGO "FBK" was convicted in Temryuk The Temryuk District Court announced the verdict against Andrei Kovalenko, who was found guilty of committing crimes under Part 2 of Art. 273, part 1 of Art. 187, part 1 of Art. 282.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian...

Security forces neutralized a man in the city of Ob near Novosibirsk, who was stealing cryptocurrency with the help of malware. More than 1000 users became victims of the hacker. The alleged thief of the virtual currency was identified by the joint efforts of the Federal Security Service of...

What will Microsoft do this time? Recent research has revealed a threat to Microsoft users — a vulnerability in the OneDrive app that could become a loophole for a ransomware virus. OneDrive is one of the most well-known Microsoft products that allows you to sync files between your local...

On July 30, an unknown person attacked DEX Curve Finance stablecoin pools and withdrew about $47 million using a vulnerability in the Vyper program code. “Several stable pools (alETH/msETH/pETH) using Vyper 0.2.15 have been compromised due to a bug in the re-entry mechanism. We are evaluating...

A real prison term was given to an Estonian citizen who for a long time was a member of a major Russian-speaking criminal forum and participated in large-scale cyber attacks on various organizations, gaining about $ 11 million from this. In 2020, he was arrested in Latvia and extradited to the...

He was a genius, a magician, and a businessman. On July 16, 2023, Kevin Mitnick, a former hacker who was once one of the most wanted computer criminals in the United States, died. This was announced on Wednesday by a cybersecurity training company that he co-founded and a funeral home in Las...

Hacking is the art and science of breaking into computer systems and networks in order to gain unauthorized access to information or resources. Hackers are divided into different types depending on their motives and methods. The best-known and brightest members of this digital fraternity are...

Journalists of the ZDNet publication report that information security researcher Bank Security, specializing in financial crimes, found on a Russian-language hacker forum a list of IP addresses and credentials for 900 corporate Pulse Secure VPN servers. The announcement lists 1,200 servers...

Joseph O'Connor, known in some corners of the internet as PlugWalkJoe, was indicted on a number of charges related to a cryptocurrency exchange hack in May 2019. During the attack, he allegedly fled with digital assets worth about $ 784,000. According to the investigation, from March to May...