Hacking Polymarket

Polymarket is a platform where people can bet on real-world events, political and otherwise. Leaving the ethical considerations of this aside for one, it facilitates assassination, one of the issues with making this work is the verification of these real-world events. Polymarket gamblers have...

Needles in a Haystack: Using Forensic Network Science to Uncover Insider Trading

Although the automation and digitisation of anti-financial crime investigation has made significant progress in recent years, detecting insider trading remains a unique challenge, partly due to the limited availability of labelled data. To address this challenge, we propose using a data-driven...

This Russian Tech Bro Helped Steal $93 Million and Landed in US Prison. Then Putin Called

In the epic US-Russian prisoner swap last summer, Vladimir Putin brought home an assassin, spies, and another prized ally: the man behind one of the biggest insider trading cases of all time...

U.K. Hacker Charged in $3.75 Million Insider Trading Scheme Using Hacked Executive Emails

The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ has charged a 39-year-old U.K. national for perpetrating a hack-to-trade fraud scheme that netted him nearly $3.75 million in illegal profits. Robert Westbrook of London was arrested last week and is expected to be extradited to the U.S. to face charges related ...

U.S. Releases High-Profile Russian Hackers in Diplomatic Prisoner Exchange

In a historic prisoner exchange between Belarus, Germany, Norway, Russia, Slovenia, and the U.S., two Russian nationals serving time for cybercrime activities have been freed and repatriated to their country. This includes Roman Valerevich Seleznev and Vladislav Klyushin, who are part of a group ...

AI Decides to Engage in Insider Trading

A stock-trading AI a simulated experiment engaged in insider trading, even though it "knew" it was wrong. The agent is put under pressure in three ways. First, it receives a email from its "manager" that the company is not doing well and needs better performance in the next quarter. Second, the...

New Ransom Payment Schemes Target Executives, Telemedicine

Ransomware groups are constantly devising new methods for infecting victims and convincing them to pay up, but a couple of strategies tested recently seem especially devious. The first centers on targeting healthcare organizations that offer consultations over the Internet and sending them...

SEC charges dark web user of insider trading, money laundering

By Deeba Ahmed The accused is a Greek national who used AlphaBay marketplace with the alias "The Bull" on the dark web for insider trading information. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: SEC charges dark web user of insider trading, money laundering...

SpaceX employee admits security fraud, insider trading on dark web

By Deeba Ahmed Between 2016 and 2017, "MillionaireMike" bought names, birth dates, and SSN from the Dark Web to create fake accounts for insider trading. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: SpaceX employee admits security fraud, insider trading on dark web...

A SpaceX Engineer's Dark Web Insider Trading Sparks SEC First

“MillionaireMike” allegedly ran a stock tip scam that earned him $27,000 in bitcoin payments...

A week in security (July 1 – 7)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we explained what to do when you find stalkerware, how cooperating apps and automatic permissions are setting you up for failure, and why you should steer clear of Bitcoin Cash generators. Other cybersecurity news: A former Chief Information Officer CIO of Equifax...

U.S. Issues Multiple Charges For 2016 SEC Hack

Two Ukrainains have been indicted in hacking the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission SEC in order to steal and sell non-public, confidential information from publicly-traded companies. The two have been charged as part of a large-scale conspiracy to hack the SEC’s computer systems and profit ...

Two Hackers Charged with Hacking SEC System in Stock-Trading Scheme

The U.S. authorities have charged two Ukrainian hackers for hacking into the Securities and Exchange Commission's EDGAR filing system and stealing sensitive market-moving reports of companies before their public release. EDGAR, or Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval, is an online...

Two Hackers Charged with Hacking SEC System in Stock-Trading Scheme

The U.S. authorities have charged two Ukrainian hackers for hacking into the Securities and Exchange Commission's EDGAR filing system and stealing sensitive market-moving reports of companies before their public release. EDGAR, or Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval, is an online...

Sound, Fury, And Nothing One Year After Equifax

One year ago today, Equifax suffered what remains one of the largest and most impactful data breaches in U.S. history. Last September, it was revealed that the personal information of 145 million Americans, almost 700,000 UK citizens, and 19,000 Canadians was stolen by cybercriminals. This...

CVE-2018-2393

Under certain conditions SAP Internet Graphics Server IGS 7.20, 7.20EXT, 7.45, 7.49, 7.53, fails to validate XML External Entity appropriately causing the SAP Internet Graphics Server IGS to become unavailable. Recent assessments: gwillcox-r7 at October 06, 2020 4:05pm UTC reported: This...

2016 SEC Hack May Have Benefited Insider Trading

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the watchdog of Wall Street, said this week that hackers infiltrated one of its systems last year, something that likely facilitated insider trading. The SEC waited nearly nine months to disclose the hack. SEC Chairman Jay Clayton devoted four sentence...

SEC Discloses Hackers Broke Into Edgar Corporate Filing System Last Year

This month has been full of breaches. Now, the Securities and Exchange Commission SEC, the top U.S. markets regulator, has disclosed that hackers managed to hack into its financial document filing system and may have illegally profited from the stolen information. On Wednesday, the SEC announced...

Three Chinese Hackers Fined $9 Million for Stealing Trade Secrets

Hackers won't be spared. Three Chinese hackers have been ordered to pay $8.8 million £6.8 million after hacking email servers of two major New York-based law firms to steal corporate merger plans in December 2016 and used them to trade stocks. The U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni in Manhattan...

Hackers Offering Money to Company Insiders in Return for Confidential Data

The insider threat is the worst nightmare for a company, as the employees can access company's most sensitive data without having to circumvent security measures designed to keep out external threats. The rogue employee can collect, leak, or sell all your secrets, including professional,...