Hospitality and entertainment giant MGM Resorts on Monday said a “cybersecurity issue” forced the shutdown of certain computer systems, including the websites for some of the biggest Las Vegas and New York properties. A brief note posted to X (the website formerly known as Twitter) said external cybersecurity experts and law enforcement are involved in ..
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The hacker group Anonymous Sudan has launched a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against Telegram in retaliation to the messaging platform’s decision to suspend their primary account, threat intelligence firm SOCRadar reports. Claiming to be a hacktivist group motivated by political and religious causes, Anonymous Sudan has orchestrated DDoS attacks against organizations in Australia, Denmark, France, ..
The FBI says that the North Korea-linked hacking group Lazarus is responsible for the theft of $41 million in cryptocurrency from online casino and betting platform Stake.com. The incident occurred on September 4, when the Australian-Curaçaoan online platform Stake.com announced that hackers had stolen funds from its Ethereum (ETH) and Binance Smart Chain (BSC) hot ..
One of Myanmar’s biggest and most powerful ethnic minority militias has arrested and repatriated more than 1,200 Chinese nationals allegedly involved in criminal online scam operations, an official of the group said Saturday. The arrests were carried out in territory controlled by the United Wa State Army, or UWSA, in eastern Shan state in raids ..
Enlarge / Karim Khan speaks at Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace during the visit of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in Bogota, Colombia, on June 6, 2023. reader comments 19 with For years, some cybersecurity defenders and advocates have called for a kind of Geneva Convention for cyberwar, new international laws that would ..
The United States and the United Kingdom on Thursday announced sanctions against more alleged members of the Russian cybercrime group named Trickbot. Earlier this year, the two countries sanctioned seven Russians for their alleged role in the Trickbot operation, and they have now announced sanctions against 11 additional individuals. The latest sanctions target Andrey Zhuykov, ..
A wealthy Russian businessman with ties to the Kremlin was sentenced Thursday to nine years in prison for his role in a nearly $100 million stock market cheating scheme that relied on secret earnings information stolen through the hacking of U.S. computer networks. Vladislav Klyushin, who ran a Moscow-based information technology company that did work ..
Ticketing services agency See Tickets has notified more than 300,000 individuals that their payment card data was stolen in a new web skimmer attack. Owned by Vivendi SA, See Tickets provides ticketing services for a broad range of event types, including comedy, festival, lifestyle, and sport, and operates both regional and international websites in North ..
In this edition of Hacker Conversations, SecurityWeek talks to Alex Ionescu, a world-renowned cybersecurity expert who has combined a career as a business executive with that of a security researcher. The goal of Hacker Conversations is to talk to cybersecurity researchers to better understand how they fit into and operate within the cybersecurity ecosphere. Ionescu ..
SecurityWeek is publishing a weekly cybersecurity roundup that provides a concise compilation of noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar. We provide a valuable summary of stories that may not warrant an entire article, but are nonetheless important for a comprehensive understanding of the cybersecurity landscape. Each week, we will curate and present ..
