De-anonymizing Bitcoin

Andy Greenberg wrote a long article -- an excerpt from his new book -- on how law enforcement de-anonymized bitcoin transactions to take down a global child porn ring. Within a few years of Bitcoins arrival, academic security researchers -- and then companies like Chainalysis -- began to tear...

CVE-2022-27149

DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: none. Reason: This candidate was withdrawn by its CNA. Further investigation showed that it was not a security issue. Notes: none...

CVE-2021-43503

DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: none. Reason: This candidate was withdrawn by its CNA. Further investigation showed that it was not a security issue. Notes: none...

Forrester names Microsoft a Leader in 2022 Enterprise Detection and Response Wave™ report

We are excited to share that Microsoft has been named a leader in The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Detection and Response, Q1 2022. Microsoft received one of the highest scores in the strategy category and strength of current offering category. In the Forrester Wave assessment, Microsoft Defender f...

Block Admits Data Breach Involving Cash App Data Accessed by Former Employee

Block, the company formerly known as Square, has disclosed a data breach that involved a former employee downloading unspecified reports pertaining to its Cash App Investing that contained information about its U.S. customers. "While this employee had regular access to these reports as part of...

Germany Shuts Down Russian Hydra Darknet Market; Seizes $25 Million in Bitcoin

Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office, the Bundeskriminalamt BKA, on Tuesday announced the official takedown of Hydra, the world's largest illegal dark web marketplace that has cumulatively facilitated over $5 billion in Bitcoin transactions to date. "Bitcoins amounting to currently the...

Live-Forensicator - Powershell Script To Aid Incidence Response And Live Forensics

Live Forensicator is part of the Black Widow Toolbox, its aim is to assist Forensic Investigators and Incidence responders in carrying out a quick live forensic investigation. It achieves this by gathering different system information for further review for anomalous behaviour or unexpected data...

CVE-2022-27306

DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: none. Reason: This candidate was withdrawn by its CNA. Further investigation showed that it was not a security issue. Notes: none...

Hive ransomware impacts California non-profit health organisation

Ransomware authors are once again targeting health services, holding important files to ransom and impacting potentially vital services. On this occasion, the victims are a non-profit organisation assisting people with their healthcare needs in California. When Hive ransomware strikes The victim,...

CVE-2021-46443

DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: none. Reason: This candidate was withdrawn by its CNA. Further investigation showed that it was not a security issue. Notes: none...

Conti Leaks: Examining the Panama Papers of Ransomware | Trellix

Conti Leaks: Examining the Panama Papers of Ransomware By John Fokker, Jambul Tologonov · March 31, 2022 Introduction It isn’t often the whole world gets an inside look of the business operations of a top tier cybercriminal group. Very early on in the Russian-Ukrainian Crisis the predominantly...

IT Firm Globant Confirms Breach after LAPSUS$ Leaks 70GB of Data

The LAPSUS$ data extortion gang announced their return on Telegram after a week-long "vacation," leaking what they claim is data from software services company Globant. "We are officially back from a vacation," the group wrote on their Telegram channel – which has nearly around 54,000 members as ...

New Report on Okta Hack Reveals the Entire Episode LAPSUS$ Attack

An independent security researcher has shared what's a detailed timeline of events that transpired as the notorious LAPSUS$ extortion gang broke into a third-party provider linked to the cyber incident at Okta in late January 2022. In a set of screenshots posted on Twitter, Bill Demirkapi publish...

Purple Fox Uses New Arrival Vector and Improves Malware Arsenal

Purple Fox is an old threat that has been making waves since 2018. This most recent investigation covers Purple Fox’s new arrival vector and early access loaders. Users’ machines seem to be targeted with malicious payloads masquerading as legitimate application installers...

An Investigation of Cryptocurrency Scams and Schemes

We provide an overview of the diverse range of NFT- and cryptocurrency-related scams that malicious actors use to steal assets worldwide...

Okta admits 366 customers may have been impacted by LAPSUS$ breach

Through its usual means of communication, its Telegram channel, the LAPSUS$ group has posted screenshots of what appears to be superuser access to the Okta management console. As such, the group claims to have acquired "superuser/admin" access to Okta.com and gained access to Oktas customer data,...

Lapsus$ Data Kidnappers Claim Snatches From Microsoft, Okta

Both Microsoft and Okta are investigating claims by the new, precocious data extortion group Lapsus$ that the gang has breached their systems. Lapsus$ claimed to have gotten itself “superuser/admin” access to internal systems at authentication firm Okta. It also posted 40GB worth of files to its...

LAPSUS$ Hackers Leak Trove of Data, Claim to Breach Microsoft and Okta

By Waqas Microsoft and Okta are investigating the issue while LAPSUS$ hackers have leaked GBs worth of data apparently including… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: LAPSUS$ Hackers Leak Trove of Data, Claim to Breach Microsoft and Okta...

OpenSSL Infinite loop when parsing certificates CVE-2022-0778

A vulnerability CVE-2022-0778 was found in OpenSSL that allows to trigger an infinite loop by crafting a certificate that has invalid elliptic curve parameters. Since certificate parsing happens before verification of the certificate signature, any process that parses an externally supplied...

Agencies Warn on Satellite Hacks & GPS Jamming Affecting Airplanes, Critical Infrastructure

In a warning to aviation authorities and air operators on Thursday, the European Union Aviation Safety Agency EASA warned of satellite jamming and spoofing attacks across a broad swath of Eastern Europe that could affect air navigation systems. The warning came in tandem with a separate alert fro...