Man Gets 25 Years for Online Dating Hostage Scams Targeting Americans

Romance Scammer Sentenced to 25 Years for Hostage-Taking. The Venezuelan national lured US citizens via online dating and…...

Pressure Grows in Congress to Treat Crypto Investigator Tigran Gambaryan, Jailed in Nigeria, as a Hostage

A new resolution echoes what 16 members of Congress have already said to the White House: It must do more to free one of the most storied crypto-focused federal agents in history...

Taking deposits hostage

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact An initial attacker can gain the power to hold subsequent deposits into StakedUSDeV2 hostage, and release them at will e.g. for a ransom. Proof of concept The checkMinShares requirement called after any withdrawal and deposit function checkMinShares...

The Hamas Threat of Hostage Execution Videos Looms Large Over Social Media

Hamas has threatened to broadcast videos of hostage executions. With the war between Israel and Hamas poised to enter a new phase, are social platforms ready?...

Winning the Mind Game: The Role of the Ransomware Negotiator

Get exclusive insights from a real ransomware negotiator who shares authentic stories from network hostage situations and how he managed them. The Ransomware Industry Ransomware is an industry. As such, it has its own business logic: organizations pay money, in crypto-currency, in order to regain...

Winning the Mind Game: The Role of the Ransomware Negotiator

Get exclusive insights from a real ransomware negotiator who shares authentic stories from network hostage situations and how he managed them. The Ransomware Industry Ransomware is an industry. As such, it has its own business logic: organizations pay money, in crypto-currency, in order to regain...

Let Me Suggest For You

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact Scope of vulnerabiliy - This vulnerability allows any user including users the do not own any share tokens to effectivly cast a veto on a minter suggetion. The only requirement to excecute the vulnerability is to have the minimun fee in the acccount. In...

Attacker can DOS OptimisticListing with very low cost

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact The only check on a new proposal is that it is priced lower than the existing proposal. It does not constrain on the collateral supplied except it will revert in verifyBalance if set to 0. Anyone can block normal proposal creation by creating a proposal...

Vault: Reduce reliance on manual rebalances from strategy to vault

Handle hickuphh3 Vulnerability details Impact Withdrawals are processed solely with funds that are held by the vault. Should there be insufficient liquidity Eg. many withdrawals in a short time, users have to rely on a trusted party operator to move funds from the investment strategy to the vault...

Publisher can lock all user funds in the Basket in order to force a user to have their bond burned

Handle TomFrenchBlockchain Vulnerability details Impact All user funds in a basket being held hostage by the publisher Proof of Concept The Basket publisher can propose an auction in order to set new tokens and weights with a 1 day timelock. As part of this call they can set the minIbRatio variab...

HosTaGe - Low Interaction Mobile Honeypot

HosTaGe is a lightweight, low-interaction, portable, and generic honeypot for mobile devices that aims on the detection of malicious, wireless network environments. As most malware propagate over the network via specific protocols, a low-interaction honeypot located at a mobile device can check...

Ransomware: 30 Years and Still Going Strong

In the tech world, systems – and methods to break said systems – seem to evolve by the minute. Technological advancement grows exponentially each year, and the realm of cybersecurity is no exception. However, some entities have survived and even thrived over the decades, rather than falling...

It Started as an Online Gaming Prank. Then It Turned Deadly

A $1.50 wager on a "Call of Duty" match led to a fake 911 call reporting a violent hostage situation in Wichita. Here’s how it all went horribly awry...

3 Charged In Fatal Kansas ‘Swatting’ Attack

Federal prosecutors have charged three men with carrying out a deadly hoax known as "swatting," in which perpetrators call or message a target's local 911 operators claiming a fake hostage situation or a bomb threat in progress at the target's address -- with the expectation that local police may...

Kansas Man Killed In ‘SWATting’ Attack

A 28-year-old Kansas man was shot and killed by police officers on the evening of Dec. 28 after someone fraudulently reported a hostage situation ongoing at his home. The false report was the latest in a dangerous hoax known as "swatting," wherein the perpetrator falsely reports a dangerous...

Canadian Man Gets 9 Months Detention for Serial Swattings, Bomb Threats

A 19-year-old Canadian man was found guilty of making almost three dozen fraudulent calls to emergency services across North America in 2013 and 2014. The false alarms, two of which targeted this author -- involved phoning in phony bomb threats and multiple attempts at "swatting" -- a dangerous...

Aura Video Converter DLL Hostage Vulnerability

Aura Video Converter is a video converter. Aura Video Converter version 1.6.3 suffers from a DLL hostage vulnerability that allows a local attacker to inject code into a database to gain higher privileges on the system...

Sniper Hostage Rescue - Customized SSL, Dangerous filesystem permissions, WebView code execution vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Sniper Hostage Rescue published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

New ransomware holds Windows files hostage, demands $50

By Gregg Keizer, Computerworld Cybercrooks have hit on a new twist to their aggressive marketing of fake security software, and are duping users into downloading a file utility computerworld.com that holds users’ data for ransom, security researchers warned today. While so-called “scareware” has...