Cybersecurity
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North Korea’s Lazarus APT stole almost $240 million in crypto assets since June Pierluigi Paganini September 18, 2023 The North Korea-linked APT group Lazarus has stolen more than $240 million worth of cryptocurrency since June 2023, researchers warn. According to a report published by blockchain cyber security firm Elliptic, in the past 104 days, the […]
Almost one in four (38 percent) of cyber security professionals say they struggle with a lack of company-wide training or understanding of cyber security, Cyber Security Hub research has found. The research, which was conducted from February to May 2023, also found that other top challenges for cyber security professionals included a failure to integrate […]
Regarding how the hacking was successful, it is reported that the hacker compromised Buterin’s account and shared a post on his behalf, celebrating the arrival of Proto-Danksharding to the Ethereum platform.
In early 2021, we published a research paper discussing the operation of a China-linked threat actor we tracked as Earth Lusca. Since our initial research, the group has remained active and has even extended its operations, targeting countries around the world during the first half of 2023. While monitoring the group, we managed to obtain […]
CardX released a data leak notification impacting their customers in Thailand Pierluigi Paganini September 17, 2023 One of Thailand’s major digital financial platforms, CardX, recently disclosed a data leak that affected their customers. According to the statement published on the CardX official website on September 15th, the company experienced a cybersecurity incident that exposed personal […]
Fortinet has released patches for a high-severity cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability impacting multiple FortiOS and FortiProxy versions. Tracked as CVE-2023-29183 (CVSS score of 7.3), the security defect is described as an “improper neutralization of input during web page generation”. Successful exploitation of the bug, Fortinet explains in an advisory, may allow an authenticated attacker to […]
FBI hacker USDoD leaks highly sensitive TransUnion data Pierluigi Paganini September 18, 2023 Researchers from vx-underground reported that FBI hacker ‘USDoD‘ leaked sensitive data from consumer credit reporting agency TransUnion. TransUnion is an American consumer credit reporting agency. TransUnion collects and aggregates information on over one billion individual consumers in over thirty countries, including “200 million files […]
Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange platform, CoinEx, has seen the loss of US$70 million in cryptocurrency following a cyber attack. The cryptocurrency exchange platform made users aware of the cyber attack on September 12 via a post on social media site X (formerly Twitter). In the post, the company explained that the cyber attack was discovered after its […]
Clop gang stolen data from major North Carolina hospitals Pierluigi Paganini September 17, 2023 Researchers at healthcare technology firm Nuance blame the Clop gang for a series of cyber thefts at major North Carolina hospitals. The Microsoft-owned healthcare technology firm Nuance revealed that the Clop extortion gang has stolen personal data on major North Carolina hospitals as part […]