hacking

Ahmed's case is the first of its kind that the U.S. Attorney's Office has faced. Shakib Ahmed, a New Yorker, was sentenced to 3 years in prison for hacking two crypto exchanges and stealing more than $5 million worth of cryptocurrencies. According to the prosecutor's office, this is the first...

Spotlighting and Watchdog are designed to be a key link in protecting user data when communicating with chatbots. Microsoft announced the creation of new technologies aimed at countering threats related to hacking AI systems. The AI Spotlighting and AI Watchdog functions will protect against...

Several vulnerabilities in webOS at once unleash the hands of cybercriminals. Researchers from Bitdefender discovered four vulnerabilities in several versions of webOS, the operating system used in LG smart TVs. These flaws allow attackers to gain unauthorized access and control over devices at...

Data from almost 57,000 users ended up online. According to open sources, the Kaspersky Lab fan club forum was hacked, as a result of which the RGB hacker group made public the personal data of 56,798 users. The forum is a popular platform for discussing Kaspersky Lab products, sharing...

The US government contractor specified what information fell into the hands of hackers. Acuity, a US government contractor, confirmed that its GitHub repositories were hacked, as a result of which the attackers stole documents. According to the company, the stolen information was "outdated and...

Quite often, the Russian authorities make extremely contradictory statements. For example, back in 2022, it was proposed to officially lift the ban on downloading pirated software, games and other intellectual property of foreign companies that left the Russian market. The idea was in the air...

The trading Telegram bot BONKbot on the Solana network was allegedly subjected to a hacker attack, as a result of which users lost about $208,000. CertiK analysts drew attention to multiple reports of losses and allowed a possible leak of private keys. The exact cause of the exploit remains...

Think twice before ordering a replica of the iconic Jordans from China. The popular online shopping platform PandaBuy, which specializes in the delivery of clothing, shoes and other goods from China, recently faced a large-scale data leak that affected about 1.3 million customers. At least two...

The community-managed first-level blockchain, AirDAO, suffered a hacker attack that resulted in the loss of 126.5 ETH (~$450,000) and 41.61 million AMB (~$512,000). According to the statement, the attacker withdrew funds from the AMB/ETH pool of the Uniswap decentralized exchange. The...

On March 21, the accounts of several crypto industry influencers in X were compromised to promote the PACKY scam token. Probably, the hacker got access through the automatic post publishing service IFTTT (If This then That). One of the victims was the adviser Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) Packy...

Representatives of the Four Dragons cryptocurrency exchange from Kyrgyzstan, which suffered from hacking at the end of February, revealed to ForkLog some details of the investigation of the incident. According to them, unknown persons stole USDT from the platform's hot wallet at the time of a...

Charlotte Fan, founder of the NFT projects Milady and Remilia, confirmed a security breach of Treasury addresses with millions of dollars worth of damage. The incident was initially reported by Dumpster DAO specialists. PeckShield experts noticed that suspicious transactions were preceded by...

An Idaho man has confessed to hacking into medical clinics and a police station with subsequent extortion. Robert Purbeck, known under the pseudonyms Lifelock and Studmaster, was arrested on charges of cybercrime committed between 2017 and 2018. By acquiring stolen credentials on the darknet...

Esports players were held hostage by cheating programs. The finals of the North American division of the popular esports discipline Apex Legends was abruptly suspended due to a violation of the "competitive integrity" of the game. An unknown attacker somehow implanted cheating programs on...

The Mosaic Finance revenue farming protocol reported that wallets based on the Arbitrum network were hacked. At the same time, the project developers claim that the funds were transferred to the centralized MEXC exchange. The Mosaic Finance protocol runs on multiple blockchains. According to...

In Russia, responsibility for crimes in the IT sphere may be tightened. Andrey Svintsov, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications, has taken the initiative to toughen penalties for cyber attacks on state resources. According...

Publishing data reveals potential firmware vulnerabilities. An anonymous security researcher revealed information about the BIOS, as well as ROM and dump files for the AMD 4800S chip. The leak may contribute to a deeper study of the Xbox Series X game console among security professionals...

Graphic design requires a global review of security policies. A new study by the Australian company Canva, specializing in graphic design, revealed a number of security vulnerabilities related to fonts. Experts found three vulnerabilities in "unusual places", emphasizing that fonts are a...

Facebook paid a record amount to a specialist for finding a vulnerability that gave access to any account. Nepalese cybersecurity researcher Sameep Aryal made history when he discovered a vulnerability in Facebook's password reset system that allowed an attacker to take over any account without...

How the attack allows an attacker to mimic any user. Semperis has revealed a new attack technique called Silver SAML, which can bypass security in identity systems. The Silver SAML technique allows you to use SAML to launch attacks from an identity provider (for example, Entra ID) against...