$610 million stolen by Poly Network Hackers: what about Bitcoin security? Poly Network is the entity specializing in cryptocurrency transfers on Ethereum, Binance, and Polygon blockchains. The company was attacked and assets were transferred to hackers. The list of affected blockchain and crypto exchanges includes such famous brands as OKEx, HuobiGlobal, Uniswap, Binance, Tether, BitGo,
The rise in stalkerware goes beyond smartphones Researchers are warning that IoT products and mobile devices are actively abused to facilitate partner coercion. According to the information provided by cybersecurity experts during the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas this week, the rapid increase in the frequency of use of stalkerware in gender-based violence
COVID-19 pandemic: data breach costs experienced by enterprises have reached a record high According to the estimates provided by IBM, the average cost of a data breach now amounts to over $4 million and the dramatic increase compared to previous estimates is attributable to the COVID-19 pandemic. For example, compared to 2020, this figure has
Amazon S3 buckets misconfiguration left 1,000 GB of local government data exposed The team of cybersecurity researchers from security company Wizcase identified that 1,000 GB of data and over 1.6 million files belonging to dozens of US municipalities were left exposed. All of the cities and towns that became the victims of this incident were
DevilsTongue attacks: Israeli spyware seller suspected by Microsoft Microsoft intensifies its war against offensive security sellers. This time Microsoft has struck Sourgum. Sourgum has been actively engaged in selling cyberweapons such as DevilsTongue malware. These weapons were used to target more than 100 victims worldwide including journalists, politicians, academics, embassy workers, etc. The victims of
$350,000 stolen from users by 170 Android cryptocurrency mining scam apps Users pay money for mining but get nothing. More than 170 applications from the Android ecosystem have been identified as scam services. The applications are offering cloud-based mining services to users interested in mining cryptocurrencies. Users just need to pay a fee and the
Warning issued by FBI and NSA of the ongoing brute force hacking campaign linked to Russian military The brute force password-hacking campaign is actively targeting organizations in the USA and Europe since mid-2019. According to National Security, the FBI, and the Department of Homeland Security, the campaign is led by the Russian military intelligence that
US schools targeted by the new GoLang Trojan ChaChi ChaChi is written in the Go programming language and has been actively used to commit an attack against different US institutions such as schools and government bodies. According to the statement made by BlackBerry Threat Research research team, ChaChi has also been actively used to commit
Cybersecurity spar between Biden and Putin at Geneva summit Ransomware attacks were one of the main points of discussion that took place between Biden and Putin at Geneva. It was the first in-person summit for these presidents. At his speech after the end of the three-hour meeting with Baiden, Putin denied Russia’s support for ransomware
