U.S. Offering $10 Million Reward for Information on Conti Ransomware Hackers

The U.S. State Department has announced rewards of up to $10 million for any information leading to the identification of key individuals who are part of the infamous Conti cybercrime gang. Additionally, it's offering another $5 million for intelligence information that could help arrest or convi...

Conti’s Hacker Manuals — Read, Reviewed & Analyzed

Conti is a notorious ransomware group that targets high-revenue organizations. They were first detected in 2020, and appear to be based in Russia. It is believed that the group is the successor to Ryuk ransomware group. According to Chainalysis, The ransomware group was the highest grossing of al...

Imperva Mitigates Ransom DDoS Attack Measuring 2.5 Million Requests per Second

We are only at the beginning of 2022 and it looks like it is going to be an interesting year for the Distributed Denial of Service DDoS landscape. We recently mitigated a ransom DDoS attack on a single website which reached a rate of 2.5 million requests per second Mrps. And while ransom DDoS...

GSD-2022-1000076 Unknown vulnerability in Wormhole on 2022-02-02 resulting in 120K ETH on Solana by an attacker.

An attacker was able to exploit a bug in Wormhole allowing them to mint 120K ETH on Solana worth approximately $300 Million USD. This has been confirmed with an on-chain message from Wormhole offering a $10 Million USD bug bounty if the newly minted tokens are returned to Wormhole. Wormhole has...

Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2016-0208)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Stolen Bitcoins Returned

The US has returned $154 million in bitcoins stolen by a Sony employee. However, on December 1, following an investigation in collaboration with Japanese law enforcement authorities, the FBI seized the 3879.16242937 BTC in Ishiis wallet after obtaining the private key, which made it possible to...

Grim Finance hacked – $30 million worth of tokens stolen

By Waqas According to Grim Finance, it was an "advanced attack" in which hackers exploited a flaw in the vault contract. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Grim Finance hacked - $30 million worth of tokens stolen...

Ascendex cryptocurrency exchange hacked – $77 million stolen

By Waqas Ascendex has lost $77 million worth of RC20, BSC, and Polygon tokens to cyberattack. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Ascendex cryptocurrency exchange hacked - $77 million stolen...

Feds Offer $10 Million Bounty for DarkSide Info

The federal government has upped the ante in its fight against ransomware by offering a $10 million reward for information leading to the identification or location of leaders of the DarkSide ransomware group. The U.S. Department of State unveiled the reward on Thursday, adding a $5 million rewar...

U.S. Offers $10 Million Reward for Information on DarkSide Ransomware Group

The U.S. government on Thursday announced a $10 million reward for information that may lead to the identification or location of key individuals who hold leadership positions in the DarkSide ransomware group or any of its rebrands. On top of that, the State Department is offering bounties of up ...

VirusTotal Releases Ransomware Report Based on Analysis of 80 Million Samples

As many as 130 different ransomware families have been found to be active in 2020 and the first half of 2021, with Israel, South Korea, Vietnam, China, Singapore, India, Kazakhstan, Philippines, Iran, and the U.K. emerging as the most affected territories, a comprehensive analysis of 80 million...

Google to turn on 2-factor authentication by default for 150 million users

Google has announced plans to automatically enroll about 150 million users into its two-factor authentication scheme by the end of the year as part of its ongoing efforts to prevent unauthorized access to accounts and improve security. In addition, the internet giant said it also intends to requi...

WhatsApp hit with €225 million fine for GDPR violations

WhatsApp was hit with a €225 million fine for violating the General Data Protection Regulation GDPR, the European Union’s sweeping data protection law that has been in effect for more than three years. The fine represents the highest ever penalty levied by the Irish Data Protection Commission,...

AT&T breach? ShinyHunters selling AT&T database with 70 million SSN

By Waqas In a post published on an infamous hacker forum and marketplace Raid Forums, ShinyHunters is offering the database for starting price of $200k. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: AT&T breach? ShinyHunters selling AT&T database with 70 million SSN...

T-Mobile Data Breach

Its a big one: As first reported by Motherboard on Sunday, someone on the dark web claims to have obtained the data of 100 million from T-Mobiles servers and is selling a portion of it on an underground forum for 6 bitcoin, about $280,000. The trove includes not only names, phone numbers, and...

T-Mobile: >40 Million Customers’ Data Stolen

T-Mobile has confirmed much of what a threat actor bragged about over the weekend: Personal details for tens of millions of current, former or prospective T-Mobile customers were stolen in a huge breach of its servers. On Tuesday, it disclosed further details on the data breach in a post on its...

Hackers steal $600 million in largest ever cryptocurrency heist

By Waqas As per Poly Network hackers exploited a vulnerability in contract calls where a contract can modify the keeper of a contract, execute transactions. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers steal $600 million in largest ever cryptocurrency heist...

Defi protocol THORChain loses $8 million in “seemingly whitehat” attack

By Deeba Ahmed THORChain said that "the hacker deliberately limited their impact, seemingly a whitehat." This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Defi protocol THORChain loses $8 million in "seemingly whitehat" attack...

Streaming Numbers Jump for European Football Tournament Delivered by Akamai

The video streaming traffic that Akamai delivered for more than 30 rights-holding customers during the July 11 Italy-England football soccer final as part of the delayed-to-2021European soccer tournament peaked at 34.9 Tbps on the Akamai edge platform. The traffic peak during the final match was...

Details of the REvil Ransomware Attack

ArsTechnica has a good story on the REvil ransomware attack of last weekend, with technical details: This weekends attack was carried out with almost surgical precision. According to Cybereason, the REvil affiliates first gained access to targeted environments and then used the zero-day in the...