ThreatsDay Bulletin: $176M Crypto Fine, Hacking Formula 1, Chromium Vulns, AI Hijack & More

Criminals don’t need to be clever all the time; they just follow the easiest path in: trick users, exploit stale components, or abuse trusted systems like OAuth and package registries. If your stack or habits make any of those easy, you’re already a target. This week’s ThreatsDay highlights show...

Executive hacked competitor’s website to steal students meal preferences

By Ryan De Souza Top Executive at Bay Area School Lunch Provider Arrested for Hacking into Competitor’s Website to Access Students Meal Preferences. Personal rivalry and competitiveness can compel people to get involved in all sorts of bizarre activities and the latest incident is clear proof of...

Someone Hacked 50,000 Printers to Promote PewDiePie YouTube Channel

This may sound crazy, but it's true! The war for "most-subscribed Youtube channel" crown between T-Series and PewDiePie just took an interesting turn after a hacker yesterday hijacked more than 50,000 internet-connected printers worldwide to print out flyers asking everyone to subscribe to...

Phisher-On-Phisher Crime Surfaces Via Trojaned Auto-Whaler Tool

It’s a sad day when attackers turn on each other, cannibalizing one another for cheap thrills and easy profits. But that’s the situation now, as phishers have begun going after the weakest among their kind: the lazy, unmotivated wannabe phisher with no skills. Researchers at GFI Labs have stumble...

Microsoft accuses former manager of stealing 600 MB of confidential docs !

Microsoft yesterday accused a former manager of taking hundreds of megabytes of confidential company material when he left the firm for a new position at CRM rival Salesforce.com. In a motion filed with a Washington State Superior Court Thursday, Microsoft alleged that Matt Miszewski, formerly a...

Malware Trojan Wars: SpyEye Vs. ZeuS

The latest rivalry appears to be budding between the author of the Zeus Trojan— a crime kit used by a large number of cyber thieves — and “SpyEye,” a relatively new kit on the block that is taking every opportunity to jeer at, undercut and otherwise siphon market share from the mighty Zeus. Read...

Unfixed XSS vulnerability at www.rivalryrecords.com

Security researcher MaXWeL, has submitted on 02/06/2007 a cross-site-scripting XSS vulnerability affecting www.rivalryrecords.com, which at the time of submission ranked 1556699 on the web according to Alexa. We manually validated and published a mirror of this vulnerability on 03/06/2007. It is...

Linux 2.2.17pre20 Вышла новая pre-версия следующего стабильного ядра Linux: 2.2.17pre20. Список изменений пока не попался мне на глаза. Подробнее: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.2.17pre/ Linux-2.4.0-test7 Вышло новое "нестабильное" ядро Linux: Linux-2.4.0-test7. Подробнее:...