Collaborate Disseminate
A hacking trio based in Romania has pleaded guilty to charges brought by U.S. authorities after being caught siphoning cash from unwary Americans. The three now await sentencing. Between 2011 and 2014, three Romanian hackers working from their home cou… Continue reading Three Romanians plead guilty in multi-million dollar “vishing and smishing” scheme
Your Wi-Fi routers and access points all have strong WPA2 passwords, unique SSIDs, the latest firmware updates, and even MAC address filtering. Good job, networking and cybersecurity teams! However, is your network truly protected? TL;DR: NO! In this p… Continue reading No One is Safe: the Five Most Popular Social Engineering Attacks Against Your Company’s Wi-Fi Network
Hacker Lauri Love has failed to get his computers back six years after UK’s National Crime Agency took them as part of a criminal investigation. Continue reading Hacker Lauri Love denied bid to get computers back
It looks like Russia turned out to be a red herring, after all. German police have arrested a 20-year-old man in connection with a data breach that resulted in the publication of personal information about hundreds of lawmakers from Germany’s Parliament, the Bundestag. Germany’s federal criminal police, known as the BKA, said they searched the suspect’s home on Sunday, confiscating his computer and other personal materials. The young man has confessed to the crime, a prosecutor told the New York Times. The security incident was widely publicized last week when the @_0rbit Twitter account began distributing phone numbers, home addresses and other data about public figures in Germany, including Chancellor Angela Merkel. Representatives from all parties in the Bundestag were affected, except for the far-right Alternative for Germany. The political nature of the data dump, when considered with suspected Russian hackers’ persistent targeting of Germany’s political establishment, led some researchers and at least […]
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Maybe you have nightmares about accidentally posting AWS console credentials on Github. Some CISOs undoubtedly have dreams where they must explain to the board that the company has just set the record for the world’s largest data breach. As a dev… Continue reading What Keeps You Up At Night?
Just as ex-tropical Cyclone Penny moved toward the coast of Queensland, Australia, users of Early Warning Network reported receiving strange messages from the emergency system. Continue reading Hackers Infiltrate Early Warning Network System to Send Spam
Curiosity is a wonderful thing; and the key ingredient to making a hacker. All the best hackers I know are not only deeply curious creatures but have a driving desire to share the knowledge they uncover. That curiosity and sharing underpins much of the… Continue reading Hacker History I: Getting Started as a Hacker
The homeland security implications are significant: the two, working with Beijing-backed APT10, allegedly stole sensitive data from orgs like the Navy and NASA. Continue reading U.S. Indicts China-Backed Duo for Massive, Years-Long Spy Campaign
The hackers behind the attack said they have targeted 100,000 more printers in the latest attack dubbed #PrinterHack2. Continue reading PewDiePie Hackers Launch Second Printer Siege, According to Reports
Bulgarian authorities last week arrested an accused Russian cybercriminal based on an Interpol warrant that originated with prosecutors from the Eastern District of New York, a lawyer familiar with the case told CyberScoop. Alexander Zhukov, a Russian national, was apprehended by police after he was indicted in absentia by U.S. prosecutors, according to Arkady Bukh, a New York-based attorney with a history of representing suspected hackers from Eastern Europe. Bukh now is in negotiations to represent Zhukov, he said Wednesday. Prosecutors accused Zhukov of affiliate fraud, Bukh said. Affiliate fraud typically involves artificially inflating internet traffic to defraud marketers, charging advertisers for access to website visitors who don’t exist. “There is widespread fraud from huge amounts of traffic getting directed through botnets,” said Bukh, describing the rise of ad fraud in general. “Before, it was boys and girls in Russia sitting in boiler rooms clicking manual clicks in order to get […]
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