US sanctions crypto mixer Tornado Cash used by North Korean hackers
The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Tornado Cash today, a decentralized cryptocurrency mixer service used…
North Korean hackers target crypto experts with fake Coinbase job offers
A new social engineering campaign by the notorious North Korean Lazarus hacking group has been discovered, with the hackers impersonating Coinbase…
Stolen Data Gives Attackers Advantage Against Text-Based 2FA
With names, email addresses, and mobile numbers from underground databases, one person in five is at risk of account compromise…
Amazon, IBM Move Swiftly on Post-Quantum Cryptographic Algorithms Selected by NIST
A month after the algorithms were revealed, some companies have already begun incorporating the future standards into their products and…
35,000 code repos not hacked—but clones flood GitHub to serve malware
Thousands of GitHub repositories were forked (cloned) and altered to include malware, a software engineer discovered. [...]
U.S. doubles reward for tips on North Korean-backed hackers
The U.S. State Department has increased rewards paid to anyone providing information on any North Korean-sponsored threat groups' members to…
No More Ransom helps millions of ransomware victims in 6 years
The No More Ransom project celebrates its sixth anniversary today after helping millions of ransomware victims recover their files for…
Ex-Coinbase manager charged in first crypto insider-trading case
The U.S. Department of Justice has charged a former Coinbase manager and two co-conspirators with wire fraud conspiracy and scheme…
Massive Losses Define Epidemic of ‘Pig Butchering’
U.S. state and federal investigators are being inundated with reports from people who’ve lost hundreds of thousands or millions of…
Hacking group ‘8220’ grows cloud botnet to more than 30,000 hosts
A cryptomining gang known as 8220 Gang has been exploiting Linux and cloud app vulnerabilities to grow their botnet to…