Getty Images reader comments 125 with The FBI is advising potential NFT buyers to be on the lookout for malicious websites that use “drainer smart contracts” to surreptitiously loot cryptocurrency wallets. The websites present themselves as outlets for legitimate NFT projects that provide new offerings. They’re promoted by compromised social media accounts belonging to known ..
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Getty Images reader comments 18 with Share this story Threat actors connected to the North Korean government have been targeting security researchers in a hacking campaign that uses new techniques and malware in hopes of gaining a foothold inside the companies the targets work for, researchers said. Researchers from security firm Mandiant said on Thursday ..
Rosie Struve; Getty Images reader comments 129 with 0 posters participating Share this story After reports at the end of 2022 that hackers were selling data stolen from 400 million Twitter users, researchers now say that a widely circulated trove of email addresses linked to about 200 million users is likely a refined version of ..
Enlarge / The LGP-30 computer, from 1956, that a Redditor found in a basement. reader comments 35 with 33 posters participating Share this story On Monday, a German Redditor named c-wizz announced that they had found a very rare 66-year-old Librascope LGP-30 computer (and several 1970 DEC PDP-8/e computers) in their grandparents’ basement. The LGP-30, ..
Yuriko Nakao | Getty Images reader comments 75 with 55 posters participating Share this story The hacker who breached the Poly Network crypto platform says the theft was just “for fun :)” and that the hacker is now returning the stolen coins. The hacker also claimed that the tokens had been transferred to the hacker’s ..
reader comments 84 with 65 posters participating Share this story China state hackers are compromising large numbers of home and office routers for use in a vast and ongoing attack against organizations in France, authorities from that county said. The hacking group—known in security circles as APT31, Zirconium, Panda, and other names—has historically conducted espionage ..
Getty Images reader comments 3 with 3 posters participating Share this story Microsoft said on Tuesday that hackers operating in China exploited a zero-day vulnerability in a SolarWinds product. According to Microsoft, the hackers were, in all likelihood, targeting software companies and the US Defense industry. SolarWinds disclosed the zero-day on Monday, after receiving notification ..
reader comments 31 with 25 posters participating Share this story The nation-state hackers who orchestrated the SolarWinds supply chain attack compromised a Microsoft worker’s computer and used the access to launch targeted attacks against company customers, Microsoft said in a terse statement published late on a Friday afternoon. The hacking group also compromised three entities ..
A cybersecurity specialist identified a new method to “hack” ATMs to use only a mobile phone with NFC. June 25, 2021 2 min read This article was translated from our Spanish edition using AI technologies. Errors may exist due to this process. A cybersecurity specialist identified a new method to “hack” ATMs to use only ..
reader comments 31 with 27 posters participating Share this story Microsoft has patched a critical zero-day vulnerability that North Korean hackers were using to target security researchers with malware. The in-the-wild attacks came to light in January in posts from Google and Microsoft. Hackers backed by the North Korean government, both posts said, spent weeks ..