Slope wallets blamed for Solana-based wallet attack
As the dust settles from yesterday’s Solana ecosystem mayhem, data is surfacing that wallet provider Slope is largely responsible for the security exploit that stole crypto from thousands of...
School Kid Uploads Ransomware Scripts to PyPI Repository as ‘Fun’ Project
An apparently school-age hacker based in Verona, Italy, has become the latest to demonstrate why developers need to pay close attention to what they download from public code repositories...
Critical RCE Bug in DrayTek Routers Opens SMBs to Zero-Click Attacks
A critical, pre-authenticated remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability has cropped up in the widely used line of DrayTek Vigor routers for smaller businesses. If it's exploited, researchers warn that it...
Solana hack wipes more than 7,000 wallets, totaling nearly $5 million in losses
Written by Tonya Riley Aug 3, 2022 |...
Universities Put Email Users at Cyber Risk
DMARC analysis by Proofpoint shows that institutions in the U.S. have among some of the poorest protections to prevent domain spoofing and lack protections to block fraudulent emails.
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VMWare Urges Users to Patch Critical Authentication Bypass Bug
Vulnerability—for which a proof-of-concept is forthcoming—is one of a string of flaws the company fixed that could lead to an attack chain.
VMware and experts alike are urging users to...
Binance, KuCoin, OKX CEOs flex security amid Solana FUD storm
With Solana hitting the headlines for succumbing to a hack on Wednesday, prominent crypto CEOs — including Binance’s Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, KuCoin’s Johnny Lyu and OKX’s Jay Hao — recommended...
Nomad reportedly ignored security vulnerability that led to $190M exploit
The Nomad token bridge hack on Aug. 3 was the fourth largest crypto hack in history, seein nearly $200 million worth of crypto assets drained from the platform. However,...
Large Language AI Models Have Real Security Benefits
GPT-3, the large neural network created with extensive training using massive datasets, provides a variety of benefits to cybersecurity applications, including natural-language-based threat hunting, easier categorization of unwanted content,...
Thousands of Mobile Apps Leaking Twitter API Keys
Thousands of mobile apps are leaking Twitter API keys — some of which give adversaries a way to access or take over the Twitter accounts of users of these...
