Fear of ‘angry people’ drove Bankman-Fried to open withdrawals for Bahamians
FTX’s former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried has divulged what really went on in the days before it filed for bankruptcy when the exchange selectively reopened withdrawals — only for Bahamian...
Cyberattackers Selling Access to Networks Compromised via Recent Fortinet Flaw
Fortinet customers that have not yet patched a critical authentication bypass vulnerability that the vendor disclosed in October in multiple versions of its FortiOS, FortiProxy, and FortiSwitch Manager technologies...
Irish Regulator Fines Facebook $277 Million for Leak of Half a Billion Users’ Data
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) has levied fines of €265 million ($277 million) against Meta Platforms for failing to safeguard the personal data of more than half...
Acer Firmware Flaw Lets Attackers Bypass Key Security Feature
Acer is working to fix a firmware flaw affecting five of its laptop models. An exploit could allow attackers to disable a machine's Secure Boot settings to bypass key security...
Killnet Gloats About DDoS Attacks Downing Starlink, White House
Killnet and its band of hacker collaborators are claiming they were able to pull off a trio of symbolic distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks aimed at punishing some of the most...
The Metaverse Could Become a Top Avenue for Cyberattacks in 2023
A combination of maturing and emerging consumer-facing cyber threats could add to the many challenges that enterprise security teams will need to contend with in 2023.Researchers at Kaspersky, looking...
Oracle Fusion Middleware Flaw Flagged by CISA
A critical bug in Oracle's Fusion Middleware Access Manager has landed on the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's list of known exploited vulnerabilities. The critical flaw, tracked under CVE-2021-35587, could...
Global Cyber-Enforcement Op Nets $130M, Says Interpol
A wide-ranging international operation by law enforcement agencies in 30 countries aiming to prosecute online fraudsters has resulted in nearly a thousand arrests and a net of $130 million...
Cyber-Threat Group Targets Critical RCE Vulnerability in ‘Bleed You’ Campaign
The "Bleed You" campaign is trying to take advantage of a known remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Windows Internet Key Exchange (IKE) Protocol Extensions, and more than 1,000 systems...
$275M Fine for Meta After Facebook Data Scrape
Following the discovery of a data set of Facebook user personal data available on the Internet, the European Union's Data Protection Commission (DPC) has found Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd. (MPIL)...
