Cyber Attacks

U.S. Releases Russian Hackers in Diplomatic Prisoner Exchange

In an unprecedented prisoner swap involving Belarus, Germany, Norway, Russia, Slovenia, and the United States, two Russian individuals serving sentences related to cybercrime have been released and returned to their home nation. This includes Vladislav Klyushin and Roman Valerevich Seleznev, two of the eight individuals who were transferred back to Russia in exchange for the

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INTERPOL Recovers $41 Million From Singapore BEC Scam

According to INTERPOL, it created a “global stop-payment mechanism” that made it possible to retrieve the most amount of money ever stolen in a business email compromise (BEC) scam. This event follows the mid-July 2024 BEC scam victimisation of an unidentified Singaporean commodities firm. It is a kind of cybercrime in which a malevolent actor

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WazirX Cryptocurrency Exchange Loses $230 Million in Cyber Attack

The Indian cryptocurrency exchange WazirX has acknowledged that $230 million worth of bitcoin assets were stolen as a result of a security incident that affected it. The corporation released a statement stating that “a cyber attack occurred in one of our [multi-signature] wallets involving a loss of funds exceeding $230 million.” “This wallet was operated

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Twilio’s Authy App Breach Exposes Millions of Phone Numbers

Unidentified threat actors exploited an unauthenticated endpoint in Authy to find information connected to Authy accounts, including user phone numbers, according to cloud communications provider Twilio. The business claimed to have secured the endpoint so that it could no longer receive requests without authentication. This happened just a few days after a user going by

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U.S. Cyber Safety Board Denounces Microsoft for Security Vulnerability Caused by Chinese Hackers

Microsoft has come under fire from the U.S. Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) for a string of security failings that allowed a nation-state group named Storm-0558, based in China, to compromise almost two dozen businesses in Europe and the United States last year. According to the results, which were made public by the Department of

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U.S. Charges Iranian Hacker, Offers $10 Million Reward for Capture

An Iranian person was the target of an alleged multi-year cyber-enabled campaign by the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Friday, when the DoJ unsealed an indictment against him. The campaign was intended to breach both private and governmental entities in the United States. According to reports, over a dozen organisations have been targeted, including

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29-Year-Old Ukrainian Cryptojacking Kingpin Taken into Arrest for Abusing Cloud Services

As part of a “sophisticated cryptojacking scheme,” a 29-year-old Ukrainian national has been detained; the operation brought in over $2 million (€1.8 million) in illegal revenues. With assistance from Europol and an unidentified cloud service provider, the National Police of Ukraine captured the individual dubbed the “mastermind” of the operation on January 9 in Mykolaiv,

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Hackers Can Create A C2 Channel Using Google Calendar

Google is alerting users to the existence of several threat actors that are disseminating a proof-of-concept (PoC) attack that uses its Calendar service to host command-and-control devices. Using a Gmail account, the application, known as Google Calendar RAT (GCR), uses Google Calendar Events for C2. It was initially released in June 2023 on GitHub. Developer

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