Packagist Repository Hacked: Over a Dozen PHP Packages with 500 Million Installs Compromised

PHP software package repository Packagist revealed that an "attacker" gained access to four inactive accounts on the platform to hijack over a dozen packages with over 500 million installs to date. "The attacker forked each of the packages and replaced the package description in composer.json wit...

SolarWinds: The Untold Story of the Boldest Supply-Chain Hack

The attackers were in thousands of corporate and government networks. They might still be there now. Behind the scenes of the SolarWinds investigation...

Hacking the Layoff Process

My latest book, A Hackers Mind, is filled with stories about the rich and powerful hacking systems, but it was hard to find stories of the hacking by the less powerful. Heres one I just found. An article on how layoffs at big companies work inadvertently suggests an employee hack to avoid being...

Criminals Are Using Tiny Devices to Hack and Steal Cars

Apple thwarts NSO’s spyware, the rise of a GPT-4 black market, Russia targets Starlink internet connections, and more...

Hacking Suicide

Heres a religious hack: You want to commit suicide, but its a mortal sin: your soul goes straight to hell, forever. So what you do is murder someone. That will get you executed, but if you confess your sins to a priest beforehand you avoid hell. Problem solved. This was actually a problem in the...

Major Hack Hits South Korean Exchange GDAC, $13.9M Stolen

By Waqas The hack took place on April 9, 2023, in which hackers gained control of some of the exchange's hot wallets. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Major Hack Hits South Korean Exchange GDAC, $13.9M Stolen...

Massive 3CX Supply-Chain Hack Targeted Cryptocurrency Firms

North Korean hackers appear to have used the corrupted VoIP software to go after just a handful of crypto firms with “surgical precision.”...

US Citizen Hacked by Spyware

The New York Times is reporting that a US citizens phone was hacked by the Predator spyware. A U.S. and Greek national who worked on Meta’s security and trust team while based in Greece was placed under a yearlong wiretap by the Greek national intelligence service and hacked with a powerful...

KangarooVault.initiateDeposit, KangarooVault.processDepositQueue, KangarooVault.initiateWithdrawal, and KangarooVault.processWithdrawalQueue functions do not use whenNotPaused modifier

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact As shown by the code below, although PauseModifier is imported, the KangarooVault contract does not use the whenNotPaused modifier in any of its functions. More specifically, the KangarooVault.initiateDeposit, KangarooVault.processDepositQueue,...

The LastPass Hack Somehow Gets Worse

Plus: The US Marshals disclose a “major” cybersecurity incident, T-Mobile has gotten pwned so much, and more...

2023 Browser Security Report Uncovers Major Browsing Risks and Blind Spots

As a primary working interface, the browser plays a significant role in today's corporate environment. The browser is constantly used by employees to access websites, SaaS applications and internal applications, from both managed and unmanaged devices. A new report published by LayerX, a browser...

SUSE CVE-2007-5795

The hack-local-variables function in Emacs before 22.2, when enable-local-variables is set to :safe, does not properly search lists of unsafe or risky variables, which might allow user-assisted attackers to bypass intended restrictions and modify critical program variables via a file containing a...

Upgraded Q -> 2 from #214 [1675930440482]

Judge has assessed an item in Issue 214 as 2 risk. The relevant finding follows: cenario 2 - Use node of node operator In this scenario the NodeOp registers for a duration longer then 14 days. The hacker will hijack the minipool after 14 days and earn rewards on behalf of the node operators node...

Microsoft: Iranian Nation-State Group Sanctioned by U.S. Behind Charlie Hebdo Hack

An Iranian nation-state group sanctioned by the U.S. government has been attributed to the hack of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in early January 2023. Microsoft, which disclosed details of the incident, is tracking the activity cluster under its chemical element-themed moniker...

Finland’s Most-Wanted Hacker Nabbed in France

Julius "Zeekill" Kivimäki, a 25-year-old Finnish man charged with extorting a local online psychotherapy practice and leaking therapy notes for more than 22,000 patients online, was arrested this week in France. A notorious hacker convicted of perpetrating tens of thousands of cybercrimes, Kivimä...

Yandex Source Code Online Leaked, Company Denies Hack

By Waqas The threat actor has dumped a whopping 44.7 GB worth of Yandex data, including its source code repository, on a popular hacker forum. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Yandex Source Code Online Leaked, Company Denies Hack...

"2.6 million DuoLingo account entries" up for sale

Not a week goes by where we dont see an example of data scraping causing concern for both business and folks at home. The latest target happens to be popular language platform DuoLingo, who is currently digging into a forum post concerning data related to its customer accounts. Scraping data for...

PSA: Your Site Isn’t Hacked By This Bitcoin Scam, Keep the Money

On January 19th, 2023, a member of the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team received an email from their personal blog, claiming the site had been hacked, and we received two reports from Wordfence users who received the same message. The email claimed that the site had been hacked due to a...

[updated]Ransomware money laundering operation disrupted, founder arrested

The US Department of Justice DOJ has released information about the arrest of Anatoly Legkodymov, the founder and majority owner of a cryptocurrency exchange called Bitzlato, on money laundering charges. Legkodymov, a Russian national who lives in China, is accused of processing over $700 million...

Hack the Pentagon 3.0: Groundbreaking Bug Bounty Program Is Back

By Habiba Rashid The US military seeks public help in securing its critical cyber infrastructure with "Hack the Pentagon 3.0" bug bounty program. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hack the Pentagon 3.0: Groundbreaking Bug Bounty Program Is Back...