Ethereum Developer Jailed 63 Months for Helping North Korea Evade Sanctions
A U.S. court has sentenced former Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith to five years and three months in prison and pay a $100,000 fine for...
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Clueless hackers spent months inside a network and nobody noticed. But then a ransomware gang turned up
Novice hackers who didn’t know what they were doing spent months inside a government agency network without being detected – before higher-skilled attackers came...
Man linked to multi-million dollar ransomware attacks gets 66 months in prison for online fraud
An Estonian man connected to multimillion dollar ransomware attacks has received a 5-and-a-half-year jail sentence for his involvement in online fraud schemes. The US...
Russian Man Gets 60 Months Jail for Providing Bulletproof Hosting to Cyber Criminals
A Russian national charged with providing bulletproof hosting services for cybercriminals, who used the platform to spread malware and attack U.S. organizations and financial...
Security company faces backlash for waiting 12 months to disclose Palo Alto 0-day
There has been considerable debate within the cybersecurity community about Randori, a security firm that waited one year before disclosing a critical buffer overflow...
Many GitLab Servers Affected by Actively Exploited Flaw Patched Six Months Ago
An actively exploited remote code execution vulnerability in GitLab continues to affect roughly 30,000 Internet-facing installations six months after patches were released, Rapid7 says....
Let’s Encrypt explains last month’s outages caused by certificate expiration
Dozens of websites and services reported issues late last month thanks to the expiration of a root certificate provided by Let’s Encrypt, one of...
ANZ reports a 73% year-on-year increase in scams for the first eight months of 2021
Australia and New Zealand Group (ANZ) chief executive Shayne Elliot has encouraged the Standing Committee of Economics to prioritise the need to raise further...
Fraudsters launched more than 100 attacks on Russian companies in three months – E Hacking News
Over the past three months, there has been an increase in targeted attacks on Russian companies via email During May-July 2021 Kaspersky Lab prevented...
Critical Vulnerability Exposed Azure Cosmos DBs for Months
Microsoft this week started notifying customers of a critical vulnerability in Azure Cosmos DB that could have provided attackers with administrative access to Cosmos...