Tornado Cash Developer Arrested After U.S. Sanctions the Cryptocurrency Mixer
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
Dutch authorities on Friday announced the arrest of a software developer in Amsterdam who is alleged to be working for Tornado Cash, days after the U.S. sanctioned...
Velodrome recovers $350K stolen funds from team member Gabagool
Velodrome Finance, a trading and liquidity marketplace, announced the recovery of $350,000 stolen on Aug. 4. However, the occasion turned bittersweet when internal investigations pointed out the involvement of...
Chinese Hackers Backdoored MiMi Chat App to Target Windows, Linux, macOS Users
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
A pair of reports from cybersecurity firms SEKOIA and Trend Micro sheds light on a new campaign undertaken by a Chinese threat actor named Lucky Mouse that...
Curve Finance resolves site exploits, directs users to revoke recent contracts: 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.This past week, cross-bridge...
Patch Madness: Vendor Bug Advisories Are Broken, So Broken
BLACK HAT USA – Las Vegas – Keeping up with security-vulnerability patching is challenging at best, but prioritizing which bugs to focus on has become more difficult than ever...
Researchers Warn of Ongoing Mass Exploitation of Zimbra RCE Vulnerability
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added two flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation.
The two high-severity issues...
Microsoft: We Don’t Want to Zero-Day Our Customers
BLACK HAT USA — Las Vegas — A top Microsoft security executive today defended the company's vulnerability disclosure policies as providing enough information for security teams to make informed...
Novel Ransomware Comes to the Sophisticated SOVA Android Banking Trojan
The Android banking Trojan SOVA is back and sporting updated capabilities — with an additional version in development that contains a ransomware module.
Researchers at Cleafy, which documented
the resurgence of...
Cross-chains in the crosshairs: Hacks call for better defense mechanisms
2022 has been a lucrative year for hackers preying on the nascent Web3 and decentralized finance (DeFi) spaces, with more than $2 billion worth of cryptocurrency fleeced in several...
Binance recovers the majority of funds stolen from Curve Finance
Crypto exchange Binance has recovered a big part of the funds from the recent hack that targeted the decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Curve Finance. In a tweet, Binance CEO Changpeng...
