British teen arrested in hacking case
The arrest comes just more than a week after the Uber and Rockstar Games hacks, which Uber blamed on a group linked to British teens.
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How and Why Do Teens Become Cyber Criminals?
The search to find the mastermind of the attacker group Lapsus$ led to a home outside Oxford, England. The suspected leader was a 16-year-old. He helped take down some of the world’s biggest companies, including Microsoft, from his mother’s house. The BBC reported the teen is alleged to have earned $14 million from his attacks. […]
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Treasury Department sanctions cryptocurrency ‘mixer’ Tornado Cash
Treasury accused the mixer of failing to stop laundering from malicious cyber actors including North Korea’s Lazarus Group.
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DDoS attacks in Q2 2022
Politically-motivated cyberattacks dominated the DDoS landscape in the second quarter of 2022 just as they did in Q1. Also, we saw the continuation of a trend that began in spring: an increase in superlong attacks. Continue reading DDoS attacks in Q2 2022
Russia Hackers Abusing BRc4 Red Team Penetration Tool in Recent Attacks
By Deeba Ahmed
Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 security researchers have discovered that Russian state-sponsored hackers are abusing the latest Brute…
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This Vigilante Keeps Crypto Safe From Thieves by Hacking It First
Inside the burgeoning field of people who keep the world of decentralized finance safe. Continue reading This Vigilante Keeps Crypto Safe From Thieves by Hacking It First
Hackers steal more than $600M from Ronin blockchain used to play Axie Infinity
It’s one of the biggest crypto heists in history.
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Microsoft investigating hacking group’s claims of successful breach
Cybercrime organization Lapsus$ posted suspicious screenshots. Microsoft officials said they are “aware of the claims and are investigating.”
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Great Computer Hacks Make Hackers Hacker Computers
In the year 1995, computers were, well… boring. The future wasn’t here yet, and computers were drab, chunky beige boxes. Sure, there were some cool-ish computers being sold, but the …read more Continue reading Great Computer Hacks Make Hackers Hacker Computers
New details emerge on prolific Conti-linked cybercrime group
Google’s Threat Analysis Group is calling the hackers Exotic Lily, and it says they employed relatively novel tactics.
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