NoCrackingZone | Tag | Security threats

Coronavirus delays trial of alleged Russian hacker a third time

Justice has already been slow in this case, and the pandemic isn’t helping: His trial has been postponed for a third time.

A vulnerability in the defunct OneTone WordPress theme plugin is being exploited to compromise entire sites while installing backdoor admin accounts.

Buh-bye, original way of tweeting. Twitter said it’s to keep our accounts safe, referring to unspecified SMS-enabled vulnerabilities.

A security researcher claims to have unearthed a previously-unknown APT group after reading the NSA files leaked by the Shadow Brokers in 2016.

It’s like a cloud of personal information breathed out in a plume by a database that didn’t bother to wear a mask.

First, 267m records were exposed & sold for 0.0002 cents each on the Dark Web. It was taken down but got reposted with yet more records.

The massive ICEBUCKET scheme has, so far, impersonated more than 2m people in 30+ countries, defrauding more than 300 brands of ad dollars.

UN experts believe the DPRK cyber-steals and launders money, extorts companies and funnels the cash into its nuclear program.

They were posing as crypto wallets in order to rip off users’ private keys and mnemonic phrases and drain real wallets. Google’s yanked them.

It doesn’t have regulatory authority, so it can’t do much, but the hundreds of registrars it authorizes can and should.