Category: CYBER SECURITY

Meta recently revealed that it has taken down over 2 million accounts involved in scams such as "pig butchering" since the start of 2024.

Russian cyber-espionage group APT28, also known as Fancy Bear, has pioneered a groundbreaking cyberattack method dubbed the "Nearest Neighbor Attack," enabling the breach of corporate WiFi networks from thousands of miles away.

This vulnerability allows attackers to exploit site administrators by tricking them into clicking malicious links, potentially performing unauthorized actions on their websites.

The U.S. Department of Justice has announced the seizure of PopeyeTools, a notorious website and online marketplace used for selling stolen credit card data and other cybercrime tools.

A significant data breach at Forces Penpals, a social networking and dating service for military personnel and their supporters, exposed more than 1.1 million records.

A French hospital has fallen victim to a cyberattack, exposing the sensitive medical records of 750,000 patients.

Australia has expressed growing concerns about the increasing targeting of critical infrastructure in cyberattacks, with one in ten incidents last year linked to sectors such as electricity, gas, water, education, and transport services.

Ford is investigating claims of a data breach after a hacker named "EnergyWeaponUser" allegedly leaked 44,000 customer records on the BreachForums hacking platform.

The U.S. Justice Department has unsealed charges against Evgenii Ptitsyn, a 42-year-old Russian national, for allegedly orchestrating the sale and distribution of the notorious Phobos ransomware.

Maxar Space Systems, a leading U.S. satellite manufacturer, has reported a data breach that exposed sensitive personal information belonging to its employees.

Chinese threat actors, known as "BrazenBamboo," are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Fortinet's FortiClient Windows VPN client using a custom post-exploitation toolkit named "DeepData."

This vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-10924, poses a significant risk. It enables attackers to bypass authentication and gain full administrative access to affected sites.

Larry Dean Harmon, 41, of Akron, Ohio, has been sentenced to three years in prison for running Helix, a darknet cryptocurrency mixer that facilitated over $300 million in Bitcoin transactions between 2014 and 2017.

Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group leveraged multiple zero-day vulnerabilities in WhatsApp, including a newly uncovered exploit called "Erised," to deploy its infamous Pegasus spyware.

The hackers, associated with a group known as Salt Typhoon, infiltrated T-Mobile’s systems as part of a larger effort to monitor the communications of high-value intelligence targets.

Ilya Lichtenstein was sentenced to five years in prison for his role in laundering approximately 120,000 bitcoins stolen from Bitfinex, a leading cryptocurrency exchange.

Daren Li pleads guilty to laundering $73M from cryptocurrency scams, using shell companies and global bank accounts. Sentencing set for March 3, 2025.

Halliburton has disclosed that a ransomware attack in August resulted in $35 million in losses after it forced the company to shut down parts of its IT systems and disconnect client systems.

Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) has alerted nearly 57 million customers of Hot Topic, Box Lunch, and Torrid about a data breach that exposed sensitive personal information.

Amazon has confirmed a data breach that exposed its employees’ work email addresses, phone numbers, and office locations due to a security incident involving one of its property management vendors, as first reported by 404 Media.