Ransomware Professionalization Grows as RaaS Takes Hold
Ransomware groups are getting their acts together, growing in sophistication and business acumen while monetizing ransomware beyond encryption, including double and triple extortion, as the market for ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS)...
Infostealer Malware Market Booms, as MFA Fatigue Sets In
Malicious actors are finding success deploying information stealer (infostealer) malware, combining stolen credentials and social engineering to carry out high-profile breaches and leveraging multifactor authentication (MFA) fatigue attacks.These were...
Cyberattack Shuts Down French Hospital
French Health Ministry authorities were forced to shut down operations and transfer critically ill patients following a weekend cyberattack on a hospital outside Paris. Minister Francois Braun told France 24...
Ankr says no one should trade aBNBc, only LPs ‘caught off guard’ will be...
Following yesterday's confirmed multi-million dollar exploit, BNB Chain based protocol Ankr took to its company blog on Dec. 2 to relay its next steps to users.The team said it...
DeFi ecosystem still haunted by FTX contagion: 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.The FTX contagion that...
Where Advanced Cyberttackers Are Heading Next: Disruptive Hits, New Tech
In November, Ukraine's president revealed that the country's IT defenses fended off more than 1,300 Russian cyberattacks, including attacks on satellite communications infrastructure.
The onslaught of cyberattacks highlights one of...
SiriusXM, MyHyundai Car Apps Showcase Next-Gen Car Hacking
At least three mobile apps tailored to allow drivers to remotely start or unlock their vehicles were found to have security vulnerabilities that could allow unauthenticated malicious types to...
SOC Turns to Homegrown Machine Learning to Catch Cyber-Intruders
Using an internally developed machine-learning model trained on log data, the information security team for a French bank found it could detect three new types of data exfiltration that...
Ankr confirms exploit, asks for immediate trading halt
BNB Chain-based decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Ankr has confirmed it has been hit by a multi-million dollar exploit on Dec. 1.The attack appeared to be first discovered by on-chain...
Trader allegedly saw over 5000x gains after Ankr protocol hack
As the BNB Chain-based protocol Ankr was exploited and the hacker dumped Ankr Reward Bearing Staked BNB (aBNBc) tokens, a trader took advantage of the price discrepancies to turn...
