Uber Hack – Ride-hailing Giant Investigating Large-Scale Data Breach

By Waqas Unconfirmed reports claim an 18-year-old kid is behind the massive Uber hack. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Uber Hack - Ride-hailing Giant Investigating Large-Scale Data Breach...

U.S. Seizes Cryptocurrency Worth $30 Million Stolen by North Korean Hackers

More than $30 million worth of cryptocurrency plundered by the North Korea-linked Lazarus Group from online video game Axie Infinity has been recovered, marking the first time digital assets stolen by the threat actor have been seized. "The seizures represent approximately 10% of the total funds...

New EvilProxy Phishing Service Allowing Cybercriminals to Bypass 2-Factor Security

A new phishing-as-a-service PhaaS toolkit dubbed EvilProxy is being advertised on the criminal underground as a means for threat actors to bypass two-factor authentication 2FA protections employed against online services. "EvilProxy actors are using reverse proxy and cookie injection methods to...

25 Years of Nmap: Happy Scan-iversary!

I didn't know it then, but on September 1, 1997, my life changed. That was the day that Fyodor's Nmap was first released to the world, courtesy of the venerable Phrack magazine. By the way, check out our recent podcast with Fyodor himself if you haven’t yet. At the time, I had just started my...

Playing Doom on a John Deere tractor with Sick Codes: Lock and Code S03E18

In 1993, the video game developers at id Software released Doom, a first-person shooter that placed a nameless protagonist into the fiery depths of hell, equipped with an arsenal of weapons to mow down imps, demons, lost souls, and the intimidating "Barons of Hell." In 2022, the hacker Sick Codes...

[Security Nation] Jen and Tod on Hacker Summer Camp 2022

!\Security Nation\ Jen and Tod on Hacker Summer Camp 2022https://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/08/securitynationlogo-1.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Tod and Jen chat about their experience at this year’s Hacker Summer Camp, the multi-event lineup of cybersecurity conferences in La...

White Hat Hacker at DefCon Jaikbreaks Tractor to Play Doom

By Waqas The hacker "Sick Codes" managed to jailbreak the display/control unit of one of the John Deere Tractor models… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: White Hat Hacker at DefCon Jaikbreaks Tractor to Play Doom...

Black Hat and DEF CON Roundup

There was nothing typical this year at BSides LV, Black Hat USA and DEF CON – also known collectively as Hacker Summer Camp. The weeklong collection of cybersecurity conferences featured an eclectic mix of attendees to learn, network, hack and have fun. The week even included a rare Las Vegas fla...

A New Tractor Jailbreak Rides the Right-to-Repair Wave

A hacker has formulated an exploit that provides root access to two popular models of the company’s farm equipment...

The vulnerability of the Eurosoft downloader for Windows operating systems allows a hacker to circumvent existing security restrictions.

The vulnerability of the Eurosoft downloader for Windows operating systems is related to security configuration errors. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a hacker to circumvent existing security restrictions...

New Hacker Forum Takes Pro-Ukraine Stance

A new hacker forum is taking a unique political stance to support Ukraine in its war with Russia, entertaining only topics and threat activity focused against Russia and Belarus, researchers have found. The Russian-language site, DUMPS Forum, has been around since late May, and at first glance...

GSD-2022-1004953 DNS hijack in Smart contract version website serving smartcontract on 2022-08-09

The curve.finance web site was DNS hijacked on 2022-08-09 and a new smart contract that drains victims wallets if accepted is being served. Previously the DNS was registered through GoDaddy. The attack was partially mitigated through a white hat hacker that executed a SYN flooding attack against...

Threat Source newsletter (Aug. 4, 2022) — BlackHat 2022 preview

By Jon Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter. After what seems like forever and honestly has been a really long time, we’re heading back to BlackHat in-person this year. We’re excited to see a lot of old friends again to commiserate, hang out, trade stories and...

What We're Looking Forward to at Black Hat, DEF CON, and BSidesLV 2022

The week of Black Hat, DEF CON, and BSides is highly anticipated annual tradition for the cybersecurity community, a weeklong chance for security pros from all corners of the industry to meet in Las Vegas to talk shop and share what they've spent the last 12 months working on. But like many belov...

When a sextortion victim fights back

When Katie Yates suddenly started receiving nude photos of her friend, Natalie Claus, over on Snapchat, she instantly recognized that Claus had just become a victim of a sextortion attack. She also knew how Claus should respond. This happened in December 2019 when Claus was a sophomore. Both were...

Aussie Hacker Arrested, Charged for Developing and Selling Imminent Monitor RAT

By Deeba Ahmed The Australian police arrested an Australian hacker for creating and selling the extensively abused Imminent Monitor RAT remote… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Aussie Hacker Arrested, Charged for Developing and Selling Imminent Monitor RAT...

Australian Hacker Charged with Creating, Selling Spyware to Cyber Criminals

A 24-year-old Australian national has been charged for his purported role in the creation and sale of spyware for use by domestic violence perpetrators and child sex offenders. Jacob Wayne John Keen, who currently resides at Frankston, Melbourne, is said to have created the remote access trojan R...

Alleged ShinyHunters Hacker Group Member Arrested

By Waqas Sebastian Raoult Le Français Sébastien Raoult, aka Sezyo, was arrested on June 1st, 2022 from the Rabat international… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Alleged ShinyHunters Hacker Group Member Arrested...

North Korean hacker group targets victims globally with Holy Ghost ransomware

Threat Level Vulnerability Report For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Summary The H0lyGh0st ransomware group, also tracked as DEV-0530 have been using ransomware payloads to compromise several small to mid-sized organizations across the world...

[PNM-002] The expiry of the parent node can be smaller than the one of a child node, violating the guarantee policy

Lines of code Vulnerability details Description By design, the child node's expiry can only be extended up to the parent's current one. Adding these restrictions means that the ENS users only have to look at the name itself's fuses and expiry without traversing the hierarchy to understand what...