Tag: DOD
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Ransomware Micro Attacks On Home Users
A ransomware attack delivered by fake Windows 10 and antivirus software updates is targeting home users, using sneaky techniques to stay undetected before encrypting files and demanding a ransom payment of thousands of dollars. The Magniber campaign, detailed by HP Wolf Security, is unusual for 2022 in the way it focuses on generating relatively small ransom… Read more
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Crypto Platform Mango Markets Drained of More than $100 Million in Flash Loan Attack
Mango Markets, a cryptocurrency trading platform, was robbed of more than $100 million on Tuesday night after a hacker used a flash loan attack to exploit the platform. Flash loan attacks involve hackers borrowing funds that do not require collateral, buying a significant amount of a cryptocurrency to artificially raise its price and then offloading… Read more
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Lloyd’s of London Investigates Cybersecurity “Incident”
Lloyd’s of London is investigating a cybersecurity incident that has forced it to disconnect some systems. The company says it has detected unusual activity and decided to ‘reset’ its network and systems as a precaution. It shut down all external connectivity, including its delegated authority platforms, in response to the incident. Last week, the company… Read more
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Toyota Discloses Customer Data Exposure
Toyota has disclosed a security incident that involved source code hosted on GitHub and which may have resulted in unauthorized access to roughly 300,000 customer email addresses. The incident, the company says, impacts customers who have subscribed to the T-Connect website, a service and mobile application that provides users with car management features such as… Read more
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Hackers maintained access inside military organization’s network, U.S. officials reveal
U.S. cybersecurity, law enforcement and intelligence officials revealed on Tuesday that sophisticated hackers infiltrated a likely U.S. military contractor and maintained “persistent, long-term” access to their system. The National Security Agency, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the FBI released a detailed, joint advisory containing the notification, explaining that in November 2021 CISA responded to a… Read more
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Helix22 — Quantum Immune Encryption
Quantum computing threatens all information currently protected by 2048-bit RSA encryption. This means everything you are d0ing now, and consider to be secure, will eventually be hacked. When it comes to transmissions, almost all data is secured by distributing a shared key to the sender and receiver, and then using this common key to encrypt… Read more
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Australian Telco Optus Suffers User Data Breach
Australia’s second-largest telecommunications company, Optus, announced Thursday it is “investigating the possible unauthorized access of current and former customers’ information” following a cyberattack. Although the company itself said it could not yet confirm how many customers may have been impacted by the breach, The Australian newspaper reported that it could be up to nine million. The Sydney-based… Read more
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US Nuclear Security Administration criticized by GAO over cybersecurity failures
The U.S. agency that maintains and modernizes the country’s nuclear stockpile was criticized by a government watchdog this week for lackluster cybersecurity policies that endangered both IT and operational technology networks. The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) published an 81-page report on Thursday outlining the cybersecurity failings of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) — a separately-organized… Read more
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Wintermute Loses $160 Million in Crypto Heist
Cryptocurrency market maker Wintermute on Tuesday announced that hackers have stolen $160 million from its decentralized finance (DeFi) operation. The London-based algorithmic trading firm trades billions of dollars across both centralized and decentralized cryptocurrency trading platforms. The company says that the Tuesday hack impacted DeFi operations only, with the lending and over-the-counter (OTC) services unaffected.… Read more
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American Airlines Confirms Data Breach
American Airlines has confirmed a data breach that affected some of its customers’ data exposing names, birthdays, mailing and email addresses, phone, driver’s license and passport numbers and “certain medical information”. The airline, however, said that it has no evidence to suggest that “your personal information was misused.” “Nevertheless, out of an abundance of caution,… Read more