PlayDapp offered a $1 million reward to the hacker for returning the stolen contracts and assets, but the hackers continued to mint more tokens, leading to the suspension of PLA trading and efforts to freeze the hacker’s wallets on exchanges.
Financial institutions face an evolving threat landscape that requires enhanced visibility across all assets, regardless of location or infrastructure. This presents a range of considerable and rapidly evolving challenges, and, as a result, organisations need to continuously assess how all the moving parts in their security operations are organised and how they can make the […]
With more voters than ever in history heading to the polls in 2024, Resecurity has identified a growing trend of malicious cyber-activity targeting sovereign elections globally. In an era of unprecedented geopolitical volatility, this trend is particularly concerning, as Time Magazine notes that 64 countries (plus the European Union) are set to hold national elections […]
The Pentagon is in the process of alerting an undisclosed number of current and former employees, job applicants and partners that their sensitive personal information may have been exposed online in a “data breach incident” that was first detected in early 2023. DefenseScoop viewed a notice — dated Feb. 1, 2024 and sent by the […]
Iranian nation-state threat actors are targeting entities based in the U.S. and Israel, according to research that Google published Tuesday. According to a report about cyberwarfare surrounding the ongoing Israel-Hamas war that began in October, “Iran aggressively targeted Israel and the United States in the years leading up to Hamas’ attack on October 7” and […]
The vulnerabilities, CVE-2023-50358 and CVE-2023-47218, are command injection flaws in the QTS firmware, with potential for remote code execution, impacting a large number of devices globally.
Compared to hard drives, SSDs are remarkably reliable, and wear leveling and other technologies have dramatically increased their expected life spans. Yet, no storage technology is perfect — even the latest SSDs are susceptible to gradual breakdowns. The more the SSD is used, the less reliable it becomes. Know how to spot the signs of […]
Southern Water has confirmed that personal data of both customers and employees has been accessed in a recent ransomware attack. The UK water supplier revealed that it plans to notify 5-10% of its customer base to inform them that their personal information has been impacted. With the firm serving around 4.6 million customers in Southern […]
Feb 14, 2024NewsroomZero-Day / Financial Sector Security A newly disclosed security flaw in the Microsoft Defender SmartScreen has been exploited as a zero-day by an advanced persistent threat actor called Water Hydra (aka DarkCasino) targeting financial market traders. Trend Micro, which began tracking the campaign in late December 2023, said it entails the exploitation of […]