Hackers steal $3.5M worth of digital assets from GMX whale
Hackers have started the year with another exploit, with several million being taken from a whale holding large amounts of decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol GMX’s native token. On Jan. 3,...
Cyberattackers Torch Python Machine Learning Project
An unknown attacker slipped a malicious binary into the PyTorch machine learning project by registering a malicious project with the Python Package Index (PyPI), infecting users' machines if they...
How To Prevent the IaC Misconfiguration Snowball Effect
The goal with infrastructure as code (IaC) frameworks such as Terraform and CloudFormation is to make infrastructure provisioning more efficient. Through a combination of automation and either imperative or...
Chinese ‘RedZei’ Group Batters Victims With Incessant Vishing Effort
Chinese threat actors have been targeting Chinese-speaking students in the United Kingdom with a unique phone scam that aims to steal their personal information with repeated phone calls and...
Raspberry Robin Worm Hatches a Highly Complex Upgrade
Hacking groups are using a new version of the Raspberry Robin framework to attack Spanish and Portuguese-language based financial institutions — and it's complexity quotient has been significantly upgraded,...
Holiday Spirit? LockBit Gives Children’s Hospital Free Decryptor
After being hit by the LockBit ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) apparatus, the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) received an unexpected holiday gift: A free decryptor and an apology from the cybercriminal...
PyTorch suffers supply chain attack via dependency confusion
Users who deployed the nightly builds of PyTorch between Christmas and New Year's Eve likely received a rogue package as part of the installation that siphoned off sensitive data...
No ‘respite’ for exploits, flash loans or exit scams in 2023: Cybersecurity firm
The new year is a fresh start for malicious actors in the crypto space and 2023 won’t likely see a slowdown in scams, exploits and hacks, according to CertiK.The...
RedZei Chinese Scammers Targeting Chinese Students in the U.K.
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Jan 02, 2023Ravie LakshmananOnline Scam / Cybersecurity
Chinese international students in the U.K. have been targeted by persistent Chinese-speaking scammers for over a year as part of an activity...
$62M crypto stolen in Dec was the ‘lowest monthly figure’ in 2022: CertiK
Cryptocurrency hackers and exploiters seemingly slowed down for the 2022 holidays as December saw $62.2 million worth of cryptocurrencies stolen, the “lowest monthly figure” of the year, according to...
