Octo Tempest crosses boundaries to facilitate extortion, encryption, and destruction

Microsoft has been tracking activity related to the financially motivated threat actor Octo Tempest, whose evolving campaigns represent a growing concern for organizations across multiple industries. Octo Tempest leverages broad social engineering campaigns to compromise organizations across the...

Octo Tempest crosses boundaries to facilitate extortion, encryption, and destruction

Microsoft has been tracking activity related to the financially motivated threat actor Octo Tempest, whose evolving campaigns represent a growing concern for organizations across multiple industries. Octo Tempest leverages broad social engineering campaigns to compromise organizations across the...

34 Cybercriminals Arrested in Spain for Multi-Million Dollar Online Scams

Spanish law enforcement officials have announced the arrest of 34 members of a criminal group that carried out various online scams, netting the gang about €3 million $3.2 million in illegal profits. Authorities conducted searches across 16 locations Madrid, Malaga, Huelva, Alicante, and Murcia,...

Vulnerability of the rfx_process_message_tileset() function in the RDP client FreeRDP, allowing a hacker to trigger a service failure

The vulnerability of the rfxprocessmessagetileset function in the RDP client FreeRDP is related to pointer swapping errors. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to cause service failure...

The vulnerability of the _dpa_cmd_add_l2_floo module in the QEMU hardware emulation software allows a hacker to trigger a service failure and execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerability of the dpacmdaddl2floo module in the QEMU hardware emulation software is related to pointer swapping errors. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a remote attacker to cause service failures and execute arbitrary code...

Kroll SIM-Swapping Attack Causes Data Breach at 3 Top Crypto Firms

By Habiba Rashid Cryptocurrency firms, including FTX, BlockFi, and Genesis, have contacted victims of data breaches caused by a sim-swapping attack… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Kroll SIM-Swapping Attack Causes Data Breach at 3 Top Crypto Firms...

Swapping lacks deadline check

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact There is no deadline when swapping tokens using EvolvingProteus. Swaps that are done through low gas transactions may be stuck in the mempool for a long time, resulting in unfavourable swap. Proof of Concept Evolving prometeus seems like an upgrade to...

Malicious user can drain the reserve during swaping and withdrawal

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact A malicious user can drain pool reserves by calling the swapGivenInputAmount... function during swapping and also during withdrawal by calling withdrawGivenOutputAmount... and withdrawGivenInputAmount... during withdrawal leading to a loss of funds. Proo...

Kroll Suffers Data Breach: Employee Falls Victim to SIM Swapping Attack

Risk and financial advisory solutions provider Kroll on Friday disclosed that one of its employees fell victim to a "highly sophisticated" SIM swapping attack. The incident, which took place on August 19, 2023, targeted the employee's T-Mobile account, the company said. "Specifically, T-Mobile,...

Kroll Employee SIM-Swapped for Crypto Investor Data

Security consulting giant Kroll disclosed today that a SIM-swapping attack against one of its employees led to the theft of user information for multiple cryptocurrency platforms that are relying on Kroll services in their ongoing bankruptcy proceedings. And there are indications that fraudsters...

Two LAPSUS$ Hackers Convicted in London Court for High-Profile Tech Firm Hacks

Two U.K. teenagers have been convicted by a jury in London for being part of the notorious LAPSUS$ aka Slippy Spider transnational gang and for orchestrating a series of brazen, high-profile hacks against major tech firms and demanding a ransom in exchange for not leaking the stolen information...

Scattered Spider: The Modus Operandi

Scattered Spider: The Modus Operandi By Trellix · August 17, 2023 This story was also written by Phelix Oluoch Executive Summary Scattered Spider, also referred to as UNC3944, Scatter Swine, and Muddled Libra, is a financially motivated threat actor group that has been active since May 2022...

Potential draining Well via slippage imprecision and swapping the same token

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact According to Well.sol comment: // Note: The rounding approach of the Well function determines whether // slippage from imprecision goes to the Well or to the User. imprecision can either goes to the Well or User. In this scenario we will assume that Well...

U.K. Cyber Thug “PlugwalkJoe” Gets 5 Years in Prison

Joseph James "PlugwalkJoe" OConnor, a 24-year-old from the United Kingdom who earned his 15 minutes of fame by participating in the July 2020 hack of Twitter, has been sentenced to five years in a U.S. prison. That may seem like harsh punishment for a brief and very public cyber joy ride. But...

Jail Time: ‘PlugWalkJoe’ Gets 5 Years for Twitter Hack and Sim Swapping

By Waqas PlugWalkJoe Joseph James O'Connor will also return $749,000, which he admitted to stealing from a Manhattan-based cryptocurrency firm. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Jail Time: PlugWalkJoe Gets 5 Years for Twitter Hack and Sim Swapping...

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...

Cybercrime Group 'Muddled Libra' Targets BPO Sector with Advanced Social Engineering

A threat actor known as Muddled Libra is targeting the business process outsourcing BPO industry with persistent attacks that leverage advanced social engineering ploys to gain initial access. "The attack style defining Muddled Libra appeared on the cybersecurity radar in late 2022 with the relea...

The validation of the source channel is performed incorrectly

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact There is a potential risk of unauthorized sources sending assets to the Canto Network and automatically swapping transferred tokens for Canto tokens. Proof of Concept When bootstrapping Canto Network, node operators config channel ID for the onboarding...

Lack of deadline parameter when executing swaps

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact Deadline is not checked. The transaction may stay unexecuted for a long time, resulting in unfavourable trade when the transaction is finally executed. Proof of Concept The function OnRecvPacket is used to help users outside of Canto onboard seamlessly...

The vulnerability of the 6LoWPAN kernel driver of the RIOT operating system, related to pointer swapping errors, allows a hacker to cause a service failure.

The vulnerability of the 6LoWPAN kernel in the RIOT operating system’s graphics driver relates to pointer arithmetic errors. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to cause service interruptions...