Researchers Identify 3 Hacktivist Groups Supporting Russian Interests
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
At least three alleged hacktivist groups working in support of Russian interests are likely doing so in collaboration with state-sponsored cyber threat actors, according to Mandiant.
The Google-owned...
Russia Planning Cyberattacks on Ukraine’s Energy Grid
As protests against military conscription rage inside Russia, the country is planning to continue its offensive into Ukraine with cyberattacks on critical infrastructure.
The Odessa Journal reported Ukrainian military intelligence...
Almost $1M in crypto stolen from vanity address exploit
Hacks and exploits continue to plague the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector as another vanity wallet address joins the roster of DeFi victims, which, collectively, have lost more than $1.6...
London Police Arrested 17-Year-Old Hacker Suspected of Uber and GTA 6 Breaches
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
The City of London Police on Friday revealed that it has arrested a 17-year-old teenager from Oxfordshire on suspicion of hacking.
"On the evening of Thursday 22 September...
Hackers Exploited Zero-Day RCE Vulnerability in Sophos Firewall — Patch Released
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
Security software company Sophos has released a patch update for its firewall product after it was discovered that attackers were exploiting a new critical zero-day vulnerability to...
Tornado Cash saga left a void, says Chainalysis chief scientist: Finance Redefined
Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you significant developments over the last week.Chainalysis chief scientist shared...
MEVbots backdoor drains users’ Ethereum funds via arbitrage trading bot
MEV gain, an Ethereum (ETH) arbitrage trading bot built by MEVbots, which claims to provide stress-free passive income, has been actively draining its users’ funds via a fund-stealing backdoor. Arbitrage...
App Developers Increasingly Targeted via Slack, DevOps Tools
Developers are increasingly under attack through the tools that they use to collaborate and to produce code — such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Slack — as cybercriminals and nation-state...
Researchers Uncover Mysterious ‘Metador’ Cyber-Espionage Group
LABSCON – Scottsdale, Ariz. – A new threat actor that has infected a telecommunications company in the Middle East and multiple Internet service providers and universities in the Middle East...
Cyberattackers Compromise Microsoft Exchange Servers via Malicious OAuth Apps
Attackers are deploying malicious OAuth applications on compromised cloud tenants, with the goal of taking over Microsoft Exchange Servers to spread spam.
That's according to the Microsoft 365 Defender Research...
