Man Gets Suspended Sentence for Hate-Fueled UK Train Stations WiFi Hack

British citizen John Wik sentenced for Islamophobic WiFi hack at UK train stations in Sept 2024. Learn about…...

Adversarial Text Generation with Dynamic Contextual Perturbation

Adversarial attacks on Natural Language Processing NLP models expose vulnerabilities by introducing subtle perturbations to input text, often leading to misclassification while maintaining human readability. Existing methods typically focus on word-level or local text segment alterations,...

SafeKey: Amplifying Aha-Moment Insights for Safety Reasoning

Large Reasoning Models LRMs introduce a new generation paradigm of explicitly reasoning before answering, leading to remarkable improvements in complex tasks. However, they pose great safety risks against harmful queries and adversarial attacks. While recent mainstream safety efforts on LRMs,...

A Comprehensive Analysis of Adversarial Attacks against Spam Filters

Deep learning has revolutionized email filtering, which is critical to protect users from cyber threats such as spam, malware, and phishing. However, the increasing sophistication of adversarial attacks poses a significant challenge to the effectiveness of these filters. This study investigates t...

Bandit on the Hunt: Dynamic Crawling for Cyber Threat Intelligence

Public information contains valuable Cyber Threat Intelligence CTI that is used to prevent future attacks. While standards exist for sharing this information, much appears in non-standardized news articles or blogs. Monitoring online sources for threats is time-consuming and source selection is...

Canadian Charged in $65M KyberSwap, Indexed Finance DeFi Hack

Canadian man charged in $65 million DeFi hack. Exploited KyberSwap, Indexed Finance smart contracts, laundered funds, and attempted extortion. Faces 20 years...

The Trial at the Tip of the Terrorgram Iceberg

Atomwaffen Division cofounder and alleged Terrorgram Collective member Brandon Russell is facing a potential 20-year sentence for an alleged plot on a Baltimore electrical station. His case is only the beginning...

Terraform Labs Founder Do Kwon Extradited to US, Faces 130-Year Sentence

SUMMARY: Do Hyeong Kwon Do Kwon, the 33-year-old co-founder and former CEO of Terraform Labs, has been extradited…...

US Officials Recommend Encryption Apps Amid Chinese Telecom Hacking

Plus: Russian spies keep hijacking other hackers’ infrastructure, Hydra dark web market admin gets life sentence in Russia, and more of the week’s top security news...

Dutch Court Sentences Tornado Cash Co-Founder to 5 Years in Prison for Money Laundering

A Dutch court on Tuesday sentenced one of the co-founders of the now-sanctioned Tornado Cash cryptocurrency mixer service to 5 years and 4 months in prison. While the name of the defendant was redacted in the verdict, it's known that Alexey Pertsev, a 31-year-old Russian national, had been awaiti...

Psychotherapy practice hacker gets jail time after extorting patients, publishing personal therapy notes online

On October 30, 2020, I started a article with the words: “Hell is too nice a place for these people.” The subject of this outrage focused on the cybercriminals behind an attack on Finnish psychotherapy practice Vastaamo. Because it was a psychotherapy practice, the records contained extremely...

Ex-Security Engineer Jailed 3 Years for $12.3 Million Crypto Exchange Thefts

A former security engineer has been sentenced to three years in prison in the U.S. for charges relating to hacking two decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges in July 2022 and stealing over $12.3 million. Shakeeb Ahmed, the defendant in question, pled guilty to one count of computer fraud in...

BreachForums Admin Pompompurin Gets 20-Year Supervised Sentence

By Deeba Ahmed Conor Brian Fitzpatrick Pompompurin on the forum launched BreachForums in March 2022 after the FBI took down the then-popular cybercrime marketplace, RaidForums. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: BreachForums Admin Pompompurin Gets 20-Year Supervised Sentence...

US Man Jailed 8 Years for SIM Swapping and Apple Support Impersonation

By Waqas In addition to his prison sentence, Amir Hossein Golshan, the culprit, has been ordered to pay $1,218,526 in restitution to his victims. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: US Man Jailed 8 Years for SIM Swapping and Apple Support Impersonation...

Twitter Hacker Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison for $120,000 Crypto Scam

A U.K. citizen who took part in the massive July 2020 hack of Twitter has been sentenced to five years in prison in the U.S. Joseph James O'Connor aka PlugwalkJoe, 24, was awarded the sentence on Friday in the Southern District of New York, a little over a month after he pleaded guilty to the...

British hacker pleads guilty to hacking schemes, faces 77 years in prison

By Habiba Rashid Joseph James O'Connor was part of a hacking group that hacked over 130 Twitter accounts in July 2020. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: British hacker pleads guilty to hacking schemes, faces 77 years in prison...

SUSE CVE-2013-2038

The NMEA0183 driver in gpsd before 3.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service daemon termination and possibly execute arbitrary code via a GPS packet with a malformed $GPGGA interpreted sentence that lacks certain fields and a terminator. NOTE: a separate issue in the AIS driver was...

Canadian Netwalker Ransomware Affiliate Sentenced to 20 Years in U.S. Prison

A former affiliate of the Netwalker ransomware has been sentenced to 20 years in prison in the U.S., a little over three months after the Canadian national pleaded guilty to his role in the crimes. Sebastien Vachon-Desjardins, 35, has also been ordered to forfeit $21,500,000 that was illicitly...

2-year prison for pervert who hacked webcams to spy on underage girls

By Deeba Ahmed Robert Davies was also one of the customers of now seized login credentials selling site WeLeakInfo. A Byron… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 2-year prison for pervert who hacked webcams to spy on underage girls...

GHSA-F8M6-H2C7-8H9X Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in nltk (word_tokenize, sent_tokenize)

Impact The vulnerability is present in PunktSentenceTokenizer, senttokenize and wordtokenize. Any users of this class, or these two functions, are vulnerable to a Regular Expression Denial of Service ReDoS attack. In short, a specifically crafted long input to any of these vulnerable functions wi...