Transit Swap ‘hacker’ returns 70% of $23M in stolen funds
A quick response from a number of blockchain security companies has helped facilitate the return of around 70% of the $23 million exploit of decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator Transit...
Web3 is the solution to Uber’s problem with hackers
Uber is a staple of the gig economy, for better or worse, and a disruptor that once sent shockwaves throughout the mobility space. Now, however, Uber is being taken...
Transit Swap loses over $21M due to code bug exploit, issues apology
Transit Swap, a multichain decentralized exchange aggregator, lost roughly $21 million after a hacker exploited an internal bug on a swap contract. Following the revelation, Transit Swap issued an apology...
Amber Group uses simple hardware to show just how fast, easy the Wintermute hack...
Amber Group has reproduced the recent Wintermute hack, the Hong Kong-based crypto finance service provider announced on its blog. The process was fast and simple, and used hardware easily...
LA School District Ransomware Attackers Now Threaten to Leak Stolen Data
The clock is ticking for the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) — the second largest in the country. Following a ransomware attack at the beginning of the month,...
SolarMarker Attack Leverages Weak WordPress Sites, Fake Chrome Browser Updates
Researchers have discovered the cyberattack group behind the SolarMarker malware targeting a global tax consulting organization with a presence in the US, Canada, the UK, and Europe, which is...
Microsoft Confirms Pair of Blindsiding Exchange Zero-Days, No Patch Yet
Microsoft is fast-tracking patches for two Exchange Server zero-day vulnerabilities reported overnight, but in the meantime, businesses should be on the lookout for attacks. The computing giant said in...
Cybercriminals See Allure in BEC Attacks Over Ransomware
While published trends in ransomware attacks have been contradictory — with some firms tracking more incidents and other fewer — business email compromise (BEC) attacks continue to have proven...
Reshaping the Threat Landscape: Deepfake Cyberattacks Are Here
Malicious campaigns involving the use of deepfake technologies are a lot closer than many might assume. Furthermore, mitigation and detection of them are hard.
A new study of the use...
Enterprises embrace devsecops practices against supply chain attacks
For enterprise security professionals alarmed about the rising number of supply chain attacks, a report released this week by Google and supply chain security firm Chainguard has good news:...
