Canadian Ransomware Arrest Is a Meaningful Flex, Experts Say
U.S. and Canada charge Ottawa man for ransomware attacks, signaling that North America is no cybercriminal haven.
Investigations that ran in parallel over nearly two years by Canadian and U.S....
‘Karakurt’ Extortion Threat Emerges, But Says No to Ransomware
The threat group, first identified in June, focuses solely on data exfiltration and subsequent extortion, and has already targeted 40 victims since September.
There is a new financially motivated threat...
Indian prime minister Modi’s hacked Twitter account attempts BTC scam
The official Twitter account of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi got compromised earlier today, which was then used to share misleading information about the mainstream adoption of Bitcoin (BTC)...
AscendEX loses $80M following ERC-20, BSC, Polygon hot wallet compromise
Crypto trading platform AscendEX suffered a loss of $77.7 million in a hot wallet compromise that allowed hackers to access and transfer tokens hosted over the Ethereum, Binance Smart...
Apache Log4j vulnerability actively exploited, impacting millions of Java-based apps
Attackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in Apache Log4j, a logging library that's used in potentially millions of Java-based applications, including web-based ones. Organizations should immediately review if...
Bitmart pledges to reimburse hack victims as crypto community voices support
As regulatory uncertainty continues to plague the global digital asset ecosystem, there are many anti-crypto proponents who continue to harp on the fact that the industry as a whole...
Russian National Sentenced for Role in Kelihos Botnet
Russian national Oleg Koshkin has been sentenced to 48 months in prison for operating a "crypting" service used to conceal the Kelihos botnet from antivirus software, enabling attackers to...
Security Experts Sound Alarm on Zero-Day in Widely Used Log4j Tool
Security experts are sounding the equivalent of a five-alarm fire on a critical new zero-day vulnerability in Log4j, a logging framework that is ubiquitously present in Java software.
The flaw...
