The British teenager George Duke-Cohan (19) has been sentenced to three years in prison due to false bomb threats and carrying out DDoS attacks.A Cohan was arrested in August by the U.K. National Crime Agency (NCA), the teenager, aka “7R1D3N7,”...
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- Duke-Cohan sentenced to three years in prison due to false bomb threats and DDoS
- Hackers defaced Linux.org with DNS hijack
- WordPress botnet composed of +20k installs targets other sites
- STOLEN PENCIL campaign, hackers target academic institutions.
- Europol identified 1504 money mules under EMMA 4 operation
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The Linux.org website was defaced last week via DNS hijack, attackers breached into associated registrar account and changed the DNS settings. Attackers changed the defacement page a few times, they protested against the new Linux...
Experts from security firm Wordfence discovered a Botnet of 20,000 WordPress Sites Infecting other WordPress installs. Experts from security firm Wordfence uncovered a botnet composed of over 20,000 WordPress sites that is being used to compromise...
STOLEN PENCIL campaign - North Korea-linked APT group has been targeting academic institutions since at least May of this year. North Korea-linked threat actors are targeting academic institutions with spear phishing attacks. The phishing messages...
Malware researchers at Yoroi - Cybaze Z-Lab analyzed the MuddyWater Infection Chain observed in a last wave of cyber attacks. Introduction At the end of November, some Middle East countries have been targeted by a new wave of attacks related to the Iranian...
According to a report published by the Reuters, the massive Marriott data breach was carried out by Chinese state-sponsored hackers. According to the Reuters, people investigating the Marriot data breach believe that it is the result of a cyberattack...
Takuya Yoshida from Toyota's InfoTechnology Center and his colleague Tsuyoshi Toyama are members of a Toyota team that developed the new tool, called PASTA (Portable Automotive Security Testbed). PASTA is an open-source testing platform specifically...
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the FBI issued a joint alert on SamSam attacks targeting critical infrastructure. The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the FBI published a joint alert on the activity associated with the infamous...
Adobe released security updates for Flash Player that address two vulnerabilities, including a critical flaw, tracked as CVE-2018-15982, exploited in targeted attacks. Adobe fixed two flaws including a critical use-after-free bug, tracked as CVE-2018-15982,...
Threat actors had access to the email accounts of at least four NRCC aides and spied on thousands of sent and received emails for several months. The email system at the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), the Republican Party's campaigning...
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