Russian Pair Charged with JFK Airport Taxi System Hack for Over 2 Years

By Waqas A cybersecurity incident apparently involving collaboration between Russians and Americans... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Russian Pair Charged with JFK Airport Taxi System Hack for Over 2 Years...

SolarWinds and its CISO accused of misleading investors before major cyberattack

The Securities and Exchange Commission SEC has announced charges against software company SolarWinds Corporation and its chief information security officer CISO, Timothy G. Brown, for “fraud and internal control failures relating to allegedly known cybersecurity risks and vulnerabilities.” In 202...

Massive MOVEit Hack: 630K+ US Defense Officials’ Emails Breached

By Deeba Ahmed The damage from the MOVEit hack is slowly emerging. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Massive MOVEit Hack: 630K+ US Defense Officials Emails Breached...

Hacking Scandinavian Alcohol Tax

The islands of Åland are an important tax hack: Although Åland is part of the Republic of Finland, it has its own autonomous parliament. In areas where Åland has its own legislation, the group of islands essentially operates as an independent nation. This allows Scandinavians to avoid the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: fbthrift-2023.10.16.00-1.fc37

Thrift is a serialization and RPC framework for service communication. Thrift enables these features in all major languages, and there is strong support for C++, Python, Hack, and Java. Most services at Facebook are written using Thri ft for RPC, and some storage systems use Thrift for serializin...

Fantom Foundation Suffers Wallet Hack Via Google Chrome 0-Day Flaw

By Waqas The Fantom Foundation has acknowledged the breach and is currently conducting an investigation after hackers managed to steal more than $550,000 in cryptocurrency. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Fantom Foundation Suffers Wallet Hack Via Google Chrome 0-Day Flaw...

Mixin Network Halts Services After $200M Crypto Hack

By Deeba Ahmed Another day, another crypto hack making cybercriminals multi-millionaires in no time, while leaving unsuspecting crypto investors without funds.… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Mixin Network Halts Services After $200M Crypto Hack...

900 U.S. Schools Hit by MOVEit Hack, Exposing Student Data

By Deeba Ahmed Student Data Managing Platform National Student Clearinghouse Confirmed MOVEit Hack Affected 900 US Schools. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 900 U.S. Schools Hit by MOVEit Hack, Exposing Student Data...

Billionaire Mark Cuban Falls Victim to Crypto Hack Again, Loses $900K

By Deeba Ahmed Crypto experts suspect Cuban may have made a mistake to get his account hacked. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Billionaire Mark Cuban Falls Victim to Crypto Hack Again, Loses $900K...

China-Linked Hackers Breached a Power Grid—Again

Signs suggest the culprits worked within a notorious Chinese hacker group that may have also hacked Indian electric utilities years earlier...

Exploit for Incorrect Authorization in Cacti

CVE-2022-46169 PoC - Unauthenticated RCE in Cacti 1.2.22 This...

2 Polish Men Arrested for Radio Hack That Disrupted Trains

Plus: A major FBI botnet takedown, new Sandworm malware, a cyberattack on two major scientific telescopes—and more...

The Cheap Radio Hack That Disrupted Poland's Railway System

The sabotage of more than 20 trains in Poland by apparent supporters of Russia was carried out with a simple “radio-stop” command anyone could broadcast with $30 in equipment...

Kroll Suffers Data Breach: Employee Falls Victim to SIM Swapping Attack

Risk and financial advisory solutions provider Kroll on Friday disclosed that one of its employees fell victim to a "highly sophisticated" SIM swapping attack. The incident, which took place on August 19, 2023, targeted the employee's T-Mobile account, the company said. "Specifically, T-Mobile,...

NY Couple Pleads Guilty to $4.5B Bitcoin Theft in Bitfinex Hack

By Waqas The guilty couple goes by the names of Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: NY Couple Pleads Guilty to $4.5B Bitcoin Theft in Bitfinex Hack...

Moving past MOVEit

The MOVEit hack resembles successful cyberattacks from the past, leading us to ask if federal agencies and contractors are using all the tools, methods, and technologies available to ward off the same type of cyberattacks...

NYC Couple Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering in $3.6 Billion Bitfinex Hack

A married couple from New York City has pleaded guilty to money laundering charges in connection with the 2016 hack of cryptocurrency stock exchange Bitfinex, resulting in the theft of about 120,000 bitcoin. The development comes more than a year after Ilya Lichtenstein, 35, and his wife, Heather...

Microsoft Exposes Russian Hackers' Sneaky Phishing Tactics via Microsoft Teams Chats

Microsoft on Wednesday disclosed that it identified a set of highly targeted social engineering attacks mounted by a Russian nation-state threat actor using credential theft phishing lures sent as Microsoft Teams chats. The tech giant attributed the attacks to a group it tracks as Midnight Blizza...

European Bank Customers Targeted in SpyNote Android Trojan Campaign

Various European customers of different banks are being targeted by an Android banking trojan called SpyNote as part of an aggressive campaign detected in June and July 2023. "The spyware is distributed through email phishing or smishing campaigns and the fraudulent activities are executed with a...

Critical MikroTik RouterOS Vulnerability Exposes Over Half a Million Devices to Hacking

A severe privilege escalation issue impacting MikroTik RouterOS could be weaponized by remote malicious actors to execute arbitrary code and seize full control of vulnerable devices. Cataloged as CVE-2023-30799 CVSS score: 9.1, the shortcoming is expected to put approximately 500,000 and 900,000...