A former employee of the National Security Agency (NSA) in the United States has been detained on suspicion of attempting to sell sensitive information to a foreign agent who was actually a Federal Bureau of Investigation undercover agent (FBI). From June 6 to July 1, 2022, Jareh Sebastian Dalke, 30, worked for the NSA for […]
A 46-year-old man was found guilty of laundering more than $9.5 million amassed via the commission of financial fraud that was enabled by the internet and received a 25-year prison sentence as a result. Elvis Eghosa Ogiekpolor, of Norcross, Georgia, ran a money-laundering network that set up at least 50 corporate bank accounts to swindle
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A trojanized Windows installer for the Tor Browser is being distributed through a well-known Chinese-language YouTube channel. The campaign, OnionPoison, was named by Kaspersky, and all of the victims were in China. The scope of the attack is yet unknown, but the Russian cybersecurity firm reported that in March 2022, victims began to show up
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A new code execution technique has been discovered to be used by the state-sponsored threat actor APT28 from Russia to spread malware. This technique takes use of mouse movement in phoney Microsoft PowerPoint slides. According to cybersecurity company Cluster25, the method “is meant to be activated when the user starts the presentation mode and moves
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Two vulnerabilities in WhatsApp’s messaging software for Android and iOS that might allow remote code execution on weak devices have been fixed with security updates. One of these involves WhatsApp’s serious integer overflow vulnerability CVE-2022-36934 (CVSS score: 9.8), which allows arbitrary code to be executed only by starting a video conversation. Prior to version 2.22.16.12,
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On Friday, the City of London Police announced that a 17-year-old Oxfordshire kid had been detained on suspicion of hacking. The City of London Police detained a 17-year-old in Oxfordshire on the evening of September 22, 2022, according to the report, which added that “he is still in police custody.” According to the department, the
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Hackers have taken digital assets worth over $160 million from cryptocurrency trading company Wintermute in the latest crypto crime to attack the decentralised finance (DeFi) sector. Unauthorized transfers of USD Coin, Binance USD, Tether USD, Wrapped ETH, and 66 other cryptocurrencies to the attacker’s wallet were part of the hack. The business claimed that the
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WPGateway, a premium WordPress plugin, has a zero-day vulnerability that is already being aggressively abused in the wild, giving bad actors the capability to entirely take over vulnerable websites. According to WordPress security firm Wordfence, the vulnerability, identified as CVE-2022-3180 (CVSS score: 9.8), is being exploited to install a malicious administrator user to websites using
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Wide-ranging penalties against ten people and two organizations supported by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) for their involvement in ransomware attacks at least since October 2020 were announced on Wednesday by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). According to the FBI, some of the individuals’ online activities can be attributed
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Links to harmful password-protected archive files intended to install the RedLine Stealer malware and crypto miners on infected devices are being sent to gamers searching for cheats on YouTube. In a new report released today, Kaspersky security researcher Oleg Kupreev stated that “the videos sell cheats and crackers and provide advice on hacking popular games
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