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Microsoft Exchange Cyber Attack — What Do We Know So Far?
Microsoft on Friday warned of active attacks exploiting unpatched Exchange Servers carried out by multiple threat actors, as the hacking campaign is believed to have infected tens of thousands of businesses, government entities in the U.S., Asia, and Europe. The company said "it continues to see...
Cryptocurrency exchange in liquidation due to hack, hacked again
By Waqas Cryptopia cryptocurrency exchange was hacked in 2019 and put into liquidation after suffering a loss of USD 30 million in crypto-assets. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Cryptocurrency exchange in liquidation due to hack, hacked again...
SolarWinds Hackers Stole Some Source Code for Microsoft Azure, Exchange, Intune
Microsoft on Thursday said it concluded its probe into the SolarWinds hack, finding that the attackers stole some source code but confirmed there's no evidence that they abused its internal systems to target other companies or gained access to production services or customer data. The disclosure...
U.S. Indicts North Korean Hackers in Theft of $200 Million
The U.S. Justice Department today unsealed indictments against three men accused of working with the North Korean regime to carry out some of the most damaging cybercrime attacks over the past decade, including the 2014 hack of Sony Pictures, the global WannaCry ransomware contagion of 2017, and...
U.S. Accuses DPRK Hackers of Stealing Millions
The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted three North Korean computer programmers for their alleged participation in widespread, destructive cyberattacks as part of the advanced persistent threat APT known as Lazarus Group. The indictment broadens the scope of crimes that the DoJ has linked to...
A Billion-Dollar Dark Web Crime Lord Calls It Quits
The “big hack” redux, riot planning on Facebook, and more of the week’s top security news...
Supply-Chain Hack Breaches 35 Companies, Including PayPal, Microsoft, Apple
An ethical hacker has demonstrated a novel supply-chain attack that breached the systems of more than 35 technology players, including Microsoft, Apple, PayPal, Shopify, Netflix, Tesla and Uber, by exploiting public, open-source developer tools. The attack, devised by security researcher Alex...
Cyberpunk 2077 Publisher Hit with Hack, Ransomware
UPDATE CD Projekt Red, the videogame-development company behind Cyberpunk 2077 and the wildly popular Witcher series, has suffered a ransomware attack that could soon result in troves of company data being dumped online – including game source code. The Warsaw-based company tweeted out a notice o...
Hacker Tries to Poison Water Supply of Florida Town
A threat actor hacked into the computer system of the water treatment facility in Oldsmar, Fla., and tried to poison the town’s water supply by raising the levels of sodium hydroxide, or lye, in the water supply. The attack happened just two days before NFL’s Super Bowl LV was held nearby in Tamp...
A week in security (February 1 – February 7)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we dug into a load of security events. We first peered into how Fonix ransomware was giving up the ghost, swearing off a life of crime and even apologizing for past actions. We looked at a credit card skimmer that found opportunity in the latest Magento 1 hacking...
Exploit for Command Injection in Rapid7 Metasploit
CVE-2020-7384 This is a small exploit in bash which I had mad...
A Second SolarWinds Hack Deepens Third-Party Software Fears
It appears that not only Russia but also China targeted the company, a reminder of the many ways interconnectedness can go wrong...
Insider Attack on Home Surveillance Systems
No one who reads this blog regularly will be surprised: A former employee of prominent home security company ADT has admitted that he hacked into the surveillance feeds of dozens of customer homes, doing so primarily to spy on naked women or to leer at unsuspecting couples while they had sex. …...
Here's How SolarWinds Hackers Stayed Undetected for Long Enough
Microsoft on Wednesday shared more specifics about the tactics, techniques, and procedures TTPs adopted by the attackers behind the SolarWinds hack to stay under the radar and avoid detection, as cybersecurity companies work towards getting a "clearer picture" of one of the most sophisticated...
SolarWinds Hires Chris Krebs, Alex Stamos in Wake of Hack
SolarWinds, which has been embroiled in a recent, widescale hack, has called in two security powerhouses for help: Former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA Chris Krebs, and former Facebook security executive Alex Stamos. Texas-based SolarWinds hired the duo as...
SolarWinds Hackers Also Accessed U.S. Justice Department's Email Server
The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday became the latest government agency in the country to admit its internal network was compromised as part of the SolarWinds supply chain attack. "On December 24, 2020, the Department of Justice's Office of the Chief Information Officer OCIO learned of...
Latest on the SVR’s SolarWinds Hack
The New York Times has an in-depth article on the latest information about the SolarWinds hack not a great name, since its much more far-reaching than that. Interviews with key players investigating what intelligence agencies believe to be an operation by Russia’s S.V.R. intelligence service...
Microsoft Says SolarWinds Hackers Accessed Some of Its Source Code
Microsoft on Thursday revealed that the threat actors behind the SolarWinds supply chain attack were able to gain access to a small number of internal accounts and escalate access inside its internal network. The "very sophisticated nation-state actor" used the unauthorized access to view, but no...
A week in security (December 21- December 27)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs we warned our readers about not so festive social media scams, how Emotet returned just in time for Christmas, we tried out some free online games your kids are playing and here’s what happened, and our VideoBytes episode talked about what penetration testing tools...