Prosecutors hand Russo-Swede a half-billion bill The operator of the longest-running money laundering machine in dark web history, Bitcoin Fog, has been sentenced to 12 years and six months in US prison.… This article has been indexed from The Register…
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Alleged Snowflake attacker gets busted by Canadians – politely, we assume
Also: Crypto hacks will continue; CoD hacker gets thousands banned, and more in brief One of the suspected masterminds behind the widespread Snowflake breach has been arrested in Canada – but the saga isn’t over, eh. … This article has been…
Scattered Spider, BlackCat claw their way back from criminal underground
We all know by now that monsters never die, right? Two high-profile criminal gangs, Scattered Spider and BlackCat/ALPHV, seemed to disappear into the darkness like their namesakes following a series of splashy digital heists last year, after which there were…
Winos4.0 abuses gaming apps to infect, control Windows machines
‘Multiple’ malware samples likely targeting education orgs Criminals are using game-related applications to infect Windows systems with a malicious software framework called Winos4.0 that gives the attackers full control over compromised machines.… This article has been indexed from The Register…
Don’t open that ‘copyright infringement’ email attachment – it’s an infostealer
Curiosity gives crims access to wallets and passwords Organizations should be on the lookout for bogus copyright infringement emails as they might be the latest ploy by cybercriminals to steal their data.… This article has been indexed from The Register…
Cisco scores a perfect CVSS 10 with critical flaw in its wireless system
Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul doesn’t live up to its name Cisco is issuing a critical alert notice about a flaw that makes its so-called Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul systems easy to subvert.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security…
Officials warn of Russia’s tech-for-troops deal with North Korea amid Ukraine conflict
10,000 of Kim Jong Un’s soldiers believed to be headed for front line The EU has joined US and South Korean officials in expressing concern over a Russian transfer of technology to North Korea in return for military assistance against…
Cybercrooks are targeting Bengal cat lovers in Australia for some reason
In case today’s news cycle wasn’t shocking enough, here’s a gem from Sophos Fresh from a series of serious reports detailing its five-year battle with Chinese cyberattackers, Sophos has dropped a curious story about users of a popular infostealer-cum-RAT targeting…
Operation Synergia II sees Interpol swoop on global cyber crims
22,000 IP addresses taken down, 59 servers seized, 41 arrests in 95 countries Interpol is reporting a big win after a massive combined operation against online criminals made 41 arrests and seized hardware thought to be used for nefarious purposes.……
Cyberattackers stole Microlise staff data following DHL, Serco disruption
Experts say incident has ‘all the hallmarks of ransomware’ Telematics tech biz Microlise says an attack that hit its network likely did not expose customer data, although staff aren’t so lucky.… This article has been indexed from The Register –…
China’s Volt Typhoon reportedly breached Singtel in ‘test-run’ for US telecom attacks
Alleged intrusion spotted in June Chinese government cyberspies Volt Typhoon reportedly breached Singapore Telecommunications over the summer as part of their ongoing attacks against critical infrastructure operators.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the original…
Scumbag puts ‘stolen’ Nokia source code, SSH and RSA keys, more up for sale
Data pinched from pwned outside supplier, thief says IntelBroker, a notorious peddler of stolen data, claims to have pilfered source code, private keys, and other sensitive materials belonging to Nokia.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security…
Schneider Electric ransomware crew demands $125k paid in baguettes
Hellcat crew claimed to have gained access via the company’s Atlassian Jira system Schneider Electric confirmed that it is investigating a breach as a ransomware group Hellcat claims to have stolen more than 40 GB of compressed data — and demanded…
A Kansas pig butchering: CEO who defrauded bank, church, friends gets 24 years
FBI recovers just $8M after scam crashes Heartland Tri-State Bank The FBI has recovered $8 million in funds from a cryptocurrency scam that netted $47 million and devastated the Kansas city of Elkhart.… This article has been indexed from The…
Criminals open DocuSign’s Envelope API to make BEC special delivery
Why? Because that’s where the money is Business email compromise scammers are trying to up their success rate by using a DocuSign API.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the original article: Criminals open DocuSign’s…
Ongoing typosquatting campaign impersonates hundreds of popular npm packages
Puppeteer or Pupeter? One of them will snoop around on your machine and steal your credentials An ongoing typosquatting campaign is targeting developers via hundreds of popular JavaScript libraries, whose weekly downloads number in the tens of millions, to infect…
Washington courts grapple with statewide outage after ‘unauthorized activity’
Justice still being served, but many systems are down A statewide IT outage attributed to “unauthorized activity” is affecting the availability of services provided by all courts in Washington.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read…
Google claims Big Sleep ‘first’ AI to spot freshly committed security bug that fuzzing missed
You snooze, you lose, er, win Google claims one of its AI models is the first of its kind to spot a memory safety vulnerability in the wild – specifically an exploitable stack buffer underflow in SQLite – which was…
Columbus, Ohio, confirms 500K people affected by Rhysida ransomware attack
Victims were placed in serious danger following highly sensitive data dump The City of Columbus, Ohio, has confirmed half a million people’s data was accessed and potentially stolen when Rhysida’s ransomware raided its systems over the summer.… This article has…
Why the long name? Okta discloses auth bypass bug affecting 52-character usernames
Mondays are for checking months of logs, apparently, if MFA’s not enabled In potentially bad news for those with long names and/or employers with verbose domain names, Okta spotted a security hole that could have allowed crims to pass Okta…