Collaborate Disseminate
Can a hacker’s extortion demand ever be paid off as though it were a bug bounty? Or is that a step too far? Continue reading Uber disguised $100,000 hacker payoff as bug bounty, claims Reuters
A mercenary hacker group has been linked to a newly disclosed 2013 breach at Microsoft in which the attackers accessed a highly sensitive internal database that held information about software flaws in company products, according to Reuters and prior research conducted by a cohort of cybersecurity experts. The latest revelations about Microsoft are all the more concerning because the hacker group responsible, dubbed by security researchers as “Wild Neutron,” “ButterFly” or “Zero Wing,” have become virtually untraceable since September 2015. Although experts say that Wild Neutron likely remains active, recent evidence of their exploits is lacking. “It’s kind of scary to think we haven’t even seen them in a while,” said Brian Bartholomew, a senior security researcher with Kaspersky Lab. “They just sort of fell off the radar … that could be due to a significant change in tactics or tools or just a lull in activity … It’s anyone’s guess.” […]
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Carmaker Honda announced Wednesday that it was forced to shut down production at one of its Japanese plants earlier this week after it was hit by the WannaCry ransomware. Continue reading Honda Shut Down Plant Impacted by WannaCry
Authorities in Spain have arrested a Russian computer programmer thought to be one of the world’s most notorious spam kingpins.
Spanish police arrested Pyotr Levashov under an international warrant executed in the city of Barcelona, according to Reuters. Russian state-run television station RT (formerly Russia Today) reported that Levashov was arrested while vacationing in Spain with his family.
According to numerous stories here at KrebsOnSecurity, Levashov was better known as “Severa,” the hacker moniker used by a pivotal figure in many popular Russian-language cybercrime forums. Severa was the moderator for the spam subsection of multiple online communities, and in this role served as the virtual linchpin connecting virus writers with huge spam networks that Severa allegedly created and sold himself. Continue reading Alleged Spam King Pyotr Levashov Arrested
Yahoo wrote DNI James Clapper asking the government to confirm and declassify an order to scan email for intelligence surveillance purposes. Continue reading Yahoo Asks DNI to De-Classify Email Scanning Order
Keys was convicted for pasting login credentials to the Tribune Company CMS into an Anonymous chatroom. Continue reading Former Reuters Journalist Matthew Keys Sentenced to Two Years for Hacking