Cryptocurrency ATM manufacturer General Bytes over the weekend disclosed a security incident that resulted in the theft of millions of dollars’ worth of funds. The attackers, the company says, exploited a vulnerability in the master service interface that Bitcoin ATMs use to upload videos, which allowed them to upload a JavaScript script and execute it ..
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A New York man accused of running the popular cybercrime forum BreachForums was arrested and charged last week. He is believed to be Pompompurin, an individual whose online moniker was mentioned in several high-profile hacking stories in the past years. The suspect is 21-year-old Conor Brian Fitzpatrick of Peekskill, New York. According to court documents ..
Australian financial services company Latitude Financial Services is notifying roughly 300,000 customers that their personal information might have been compromised in a data breach. A subsidiary of Deutsche Bank and KKE operating since 2015 and headquartered in Melbourne, Latitude is the largest non-bank lender of consumer credit in Australia, also offering services in New Zealand, ..
The FBI received more than 800,000 cybercrime-related complaints in 2022, with losses totaling over $10 billion, the agency’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) revealed in its latest report. The IC3’s 2022 Internet Crime Report shows that while the number of complaints was smaller compared to 2021, losses increased from $6.9 billion to $10.3 billion. In ..
London, UK based De-Fi platform company Euler has lost a reported $196 million to a flash loan attack. A flash loan is an instant unsecured loan controlled by smart contracts. It allows a borrower to obtain collateral, use that collateral for its purposes, and return the collateral to its source provided it all occurs within ..
Authorities this week announced the seizure of a domain distributing the NetWire remote access trojan (RAT) and the arrest of a Croatian national suspected of operating the website. First discovered a decade ago, NetWire is one of the best-known malware families out there, used by both cybercriminals and state-sponsored threat actors to steal victim information ..
“Gli attacchi hacker russi sono una delle prime minacce che incombono. Anche se sembra che il nostro Paese non abbia riportato gravi danni dai recenti attacchi di questo tipo”. Sono queste le prime parole del nuovo direttore generale dell’‘Agenzia per la Cybersicurezza Nazionale (ACN), Bruno Frattasi, rilasciate in un’intervista al Messaggero. La nomina di Frattasi ..
As deepfakes quickly advance in terms of sophistication, they can be scarily convincing, as we’ve seen in some examples. And what’s more, they’re becoming increasingly popular with cybercriminals, as these technologies become even easier to use. The introduction of VALL-E, for instance, has raised new concerns about the ability to make deepfake voices quick and ..
Continua il periodo nero per quanto riguarda la sicurezza informatica del nostro Paese. Nel 2022 sono stati 188 gli attacchi informatici verso il nostro Paese, +169% rispetto al 2021. A livello mondiale la crescita è stata del 21%. Lo rivelano i dati del Rapporto annuale del Clusit, condotto su 148 paesi. “Con 2.489 incidenti gravi ..
A recent report from blockchain data company Chainalysis shows that extortion payments for ransomware declined significantly in 2022. The decrease is attributed to the disruption of major ransomware gangs, a weakening in crypto values, and organizations finally stepping up their cybersecurity practices. According to U.S. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, the industry has pivoted “to ..
