Collaborate Disseminate
An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: Two U.S. men have been charged with hacking into a U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) online portal that taps into 16 different federal law enforcement databases. Both are alleged to be part of … Continue reading Two US Men Charged In 2022 Hacking of DEA Portal
I have been reading on CRIME and BREACH attacks and I want to learn better how to protect against them.
From what I understood, those attacks require TLS encryption over HTTP compression and HTTP content reflecting an user input.
HTTP/2 us… Continue reading CRIME and BREACH attacks, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3
Though Kia and Hyundai represent a tenth of U.S. auto sales, the New York Times reports that “Of the nearly 11,000 cars stolen in Memphis last year — about twice as many as in 2021 — roughly a third were late-model Kias and Hyundais, accord… Continue reading Teens Are Stealing More Cars. They Learn How on Social Media.
An anonymous reader shares this report from Dark Reading:
In recent weeks, hackers have been deploying the “IceFire” ransomware against Linux enterprise networks, a noted shift for what was once a Windows-only malware.
A report from SentinelOne sugg… Continue reading Does IceFire Ransomware Portend a Broader Shift From Windows to Linux?
A YouTube star who built a sizable following with slickly produced videos flaunting his fleet of luxury and sports cars, collection of diamond-encrusted bling, and his spacious Swedesboro home will be forced to give up nearly all of it after he was sen… Continue reading YouTuber Sentenced To Over 5 Years and Ordered To Forfeit $30 Million in Large-Scale Cable Piracy Case
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried “has been under house arrest at his parents’ home on the Stanford campus since December,” writes the Washington Post, “making the elite university the unlikely host to one of America’s most notorious alleged white-collar c… Continue reading Sam Bankman-Fried is Under House Arrest – at Stanford. Students are Fascinated
FTX ex-engineering head Nishad Singh pleaded guilty to criminal charges in New York on Tuesday, becoming the latest member of Sam Bankman-Fried’s former leadership team to agree to a deal. CNBC reports: The six charges against Singh include conspiracy … Continue reading FTX Ex-Engineering Chief Nishad Singh Pleads Guilty To Criminal Charges
CRN reports:
Prominent incident response firm Mandiant disclosed Tuesday that it responded to 15 percent fewer ransomware incidents last year. The statistic was first reported by the Wall Street Journal. Mandiant, which is owned by Google Cloud, confi… Continue reading Ransomware Attacks, Payments Declined In 2022: Report
An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: Authorities in the United States and United Kingdom today levied financial sanctions against seven men accused of operating “Trickbot,” a cybercrime-as-a-service platform based in Russia that ha… Continue reading US, UK Sanction 7 Men Tied To Trickbot Hacking Group
An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: Julius “Zeekill” Kivimaki, a 25-year-old Finnish man charged with extorting a local online psychotherapy practice and leaking therapy notes for more than 22,000 patients online, was arrested thi… Continue reading Finland’s Most-Wanted Hacker Nabbed In France