North Korea's Lazarus Group Suspected in $31 Million CoinEx Heist

The North Korea-affiliated Lazarus Group has stolen nearly $240 million in cryptocurrency since June 2023, marking a significant escalation of its hacks. According to multiple reports from Certik, Elliptic, and ZachXBT, the infamous hacking group is said to be suspected behind the theft of $31...

North Korean Hackers Deploy New Malicious Python Packages in PyPI Repository

Three additional rogue Python packages have been discovered in the Package Index PyPI repository as part of an ongoing malicious software supply chain campaign called VMConnect, with signs pointing to the involvement of North Korean state-sponsored threat actors. The findings come from...

Researchers Expose Space Pirates' Cyber Campaign Across Russia and Serbia

The threat actor known as Space Pirates has been linked to attacks against at least 16 organizations in Russia and Serbia over the past year by employing novel tactics and adding new cyber weapons to its arsenal. "The cybercriminals' main goals are still espionage and theft of confidential...

Criminal secure messaging system takedown: 6500+ arrests and €900 million+ seized

In 2020, we reported on how law enforcement managed to compromise a secure communications system set up by and for criminals. Now, Europol has published a progress report showing the enormous impact the infiltration of the encrypted communications tool EncroChat made. EncroChat, a company based i...

EncroChat Bust Leads to 6,558 Criminals' Arrests and €900 Million Seizure

Europol on Tuesday announced that the takedown of EncroChat in July 2020 led to 6,558 arrests worldwide and the seizure of €900 million in illicit criminal proceeds. The law enforcement agency said that a subsequent joint investigation initiated by French and Dutch authorities intercepted and...

Rheinmetall attacked by BlackBasta ransomware

On Friday May 19, 2023, the German arms producer Rheinmetall acknowledged a cyber-incident at one of its subsidiaries in the private sector. The BlackBasta ransomware group has already claimed responsibility for the attack through its leak-site. Entry for Rheinmetall on BlackBasta leak site...

Using LLMs to Create Bioweapons

Im not sure there are good ways to build guardrails to prevent this sort of thing: There is growing concern regarding the potential misuse of molecular machine learning models for harmful purposes. Specifically, the dual-use application of models for predicting cytotoxicity18 to create new poison...

Wipermania: An All You Can Wipe Buffet

Wipermania: An All You Can Wipe Buffet By Max Kersten · November 15, 2022 In early 2022, Ukrainian companies were struck by multiple destructive wipers, attacking various organizations across sectors. This raised questions about the usage and impact of “digital weapons” within the security...

China Accuses NSA's TAO Unit of Hacking its Military Research University

China has accused the U.S. National Security Agency NSA of conducting a string of cyberattacks aimed at aeronautical and military research-oriented Northwestern Polytechnical University in the city of Xi'an in June 2022. The National Computer Virus Emergency Response Centre NCVERC disclosed its...

Microsoft Zero-Days Sold and then Used

Yet another article about cyber-weapons arms manufacturers and their particular supply chain. This one is about Windows and Adobe Reader zero-day exploits sold by an Austrian company named DSIRF. Theres an entire industry devoted to undermining all of our security. It needs to be stopped...

Ethereum Developer Jailed 63 Months for Helping North Korea Evade Sanctions

A U.S. court has sentenced former Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith to five years and three months in prison and pay a $100,000 fine for conspiring with North Korea to help use cryptocurrencies to circumvent sanctions imposed on the country. "There is no question North Korea poses a national...

US Agencies Say Russian Hackers Compromised Defense Contractors

Kremlin-backed cyber actors lurked in the networks for months, obtaining sensitive documents related to weapons and infrastructure development...

Military’s RFID Tracking of Guns May Endanger Troops

Reports that the military has started outfitting firearms with RFID tags for tracking have raised security alarms. The concern: What if the enemy uses the tags to track soldiers on the battlefield? The Department of Defense, the Marines and the Navy have already rejected the RFID tagging tech for...

A week in security (July 5 – July 11)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Racing against a real-life ransomware attack. Podcast with Ski Kacoroski. Kaseya CEO: “The impact of this incredibly sophisticated attack is very minimal” Patch now! Emergency fix for PrintNightmare released by Microsoft. Game over: Apex Legends players locked out ...

AI-Piloted Fighter Jets

News from Georgetowns Center for Security and Emerging Technology: China Claims Its AI Can Beat Human Pilots in Battle: Chinese state media reported that an AI system had successfully defeated human pilots during simulated dogfights. According to the Global Times report, the system had shot down...

Revil ransomware gang claims breaching US nuclear weapons contractor

By Deeba Ahmed The REvil ransomware gang have said that they will auction the data belonging to Sol Oriens, a US-based nuclear weapons contractor. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Revil ransomware gang claims breaching US nuclear weapons contractor...

REvil Hits US Nuclear Weapons Contractor: Report

Sol Oriens, a subcontractor for the U.S. Department of Energy DOE that works on nuclear weapons with the National Nuclear Security Administration NNSA, last month was hit by a cyberattack that experts say came from the relentless REvil ransomware-as-a-service RaaS gang. The Albuquerque, N.M...

Hacking Weapons Systems

Lukasz Olejnik has a good essay on hacking weapons systems. Basically, there is no reason to believe that software in weapons systems is any more vulnerability free than any other software. So now the question is whether the software can be accessed over the Internet. Increasingly, it is. This is...

U.S. Weapons Programs Lack 'Key' Cybersecurity Measures

Weapons programs from the U.S. Department of Defense DoD are falling short when it comes to incorporating cybersecurity requirements, according to a new watchdog report. While the DoD has developed a range of policies aimed at hardening the security for its weapon systems, the guidance leaves out...

North Korean Hackers Used 'Torisma' Spyware in Job Offers-based Attacks

A cyberespionage campaign aimed at aerospace and defense sectors in order to install data gathering implants on victims' machines for purposes of surveillance and data exfiltration may have been more sophisticated than previously thought. The attacks, which targeted IP-addresses belonging to...