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NK Students Win Top Places In US Firm’s Hacking Contest
US news station Radio Free Asia reported on Thursday that university students from North Korea won all of the top prizes at a hacking contest held by US software company HackerEarth in May.
At May Circuits 2023, a coding race for developers, three students from Kim Chaek University of T...
Phone hacking was done on an industrial scale,Prince Harry says in court.
Prince Harry went to court in London to show that the publisher of the tabloid Daily Mirror had hacked his phone and spied on him without his permission.
He left the witness box on Wednesday after showing that he had a lot of doubts about how Mirror Group Newspapers got the information ...
Reddit was hacked in a phishing attack, although the platform confirms that no user data was compromised.
Reddit highlighted the phishing attack in its official announcement and advised users on how to protect their accounts. The popular social news aggregation site Reddit has acknowledged that it was recently hacked. According to the social news service, there was a security compromise of its system...
After hacking the Exclu encrypted chat app, cops make arrests and seize drugs.
European authorities have shut down an encrypted messaging service used by thousands of people, including members of organized crime gangs. Following a multi-country investigation into the Exclu encrypted messaging service, a coordinated operation conducted by Dutch and German police resulted in ...
Following a spate of hacks, France aims to secure hospitals
The interior, health, and digital services ministers declared in a joint statement that "the aim is that 100 percent of the most significant health facilities have through these new exercises by May 2023." In order to propagate best practises for "the reactions and measures to adop...
Crypto attack on Cream Finance costs over $130 Million
A major hack attack has cost $130 million to the Ethereum-powered lending protocol called Cream Finance.
Highlights
- Cream Finance suffers major crypto hack
- The company has lost around $130 million
Almost 68 crypto-assets we...
Microsoft to provide scholarships to 25,000 students across US
Microsoft is planning to work with community colleges and fill 250,000 cybersecurity jobs over the next four years across the United States of America.
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- Microsoft to provide assistance to 25,00 students in the US
- Biden has discusse...
Justice Department in US launches National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team to protect from cyber-attacks
Highlights
- Lisa Monaco launched the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team
- This team will target cyber-attacks
Lisa Monaco, Deputy Attorney General of United States, during her speech on Wednesday, unveiled two new Justice De...
Hackers stole digital coins worth $610 million
Cryptocurrencies are based on a ledger of activities called a blockchain. Exploiting the vulnerability of Poly network, where different block chains are connected to work together, $600 million has been stolen as one of the biggest cryptocurrency thefts ever has taken place. The theft was disclos...
SOLARWINDS HACKERS ARE BACK SAYS MICROSOFT
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• Microsoft said this hackers group called "Nobelium," targeted 3,000 email accounts at multiple organizations this week, most of which were in the United States
• Microsoft said “These attacks appear to be a continuation of multiple effort...
AFTER RECENT COLONIAL HACK, BIDEN ADMINISTRATION TO BEEF UP PIPELINE SECURITY PROTECTIONS
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• The agency said it will release more details "in the days ahead" without providing particulars
• Colonial Pipeline had issued a statement where it said that the attack affected some of its information technology systems
According to t...
INDIA PLANS TO SEEK HELP FROM US AS CHINA-BACKED HACKS THREATEN MILITARY
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• While US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was in New Delhi last month, this issue was discussed with him
• Recently there were several attacks in the country that are likely to have caused power outage in Mumbai, crippled systems at many banks and also ...
GITHUB'S "GITHUB ACTION" MANIPULATED BY HACKERS TO MINE FREE CRYPTOCURRENCIES
Highlights:
• The hackers began the attacks in November
• GitHub infrastructure had to bear a lot of load due to the attack
Hackers have found a new way of hacking into a system that helps them to mine new cry...
BITCOINS SEIZED FROM HACKERS TO BE AUCTIONED IN FRANCE
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• The bitcoins to be auctioned will be in two batches on March 17th 2021
• If proven innocent, the auction proceeds will go to the hackers from who the bitcoins were seized
In 2019 an...
SEVERAL THOUSANDS OF US MICROSOFT CUSTOMERS HIT BY CHINA-LINKED HACK
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• Microsoft has clearly stated that this attack was carried out by a network of suspected Chinese hackers and affected include numerous small businesses and state and local governments
• He also said that those affected is expected to hold very little inte...
US FIRM SAYS CHINESE STATE-SPONSORED HACKERS STILL TARGETING INDIAN PORT
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• Recorded Future had alerted officials that at least one connection which was opened by Chinese state-sponsored hackers into the network system of an Indian port is still active
• Stuart Solomon, COO said Recorded Future is likely to see a handshake that ...
NIGERIAN SOCIAL-MEDIA STAR HELPED NORTH KOREAN HACKERS IN CYBER CRIME: US OFFICIALS
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• The United States Justice Department on February 17 said that Ramon Olorunwa Abbas played a supporting role in cyber-scams perpetrated by three computer programmers accused of extorting over $1.3 billion of cash and cryptocurrency
• This Nigerian social-...
SOLARWINDS HACKERS ARE IMPACTING GOVERNMENTS: US CYBERSECURITY AGENCY
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• The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in a statement said the hacking campaign was impacting enterprise networks across federal, state, and local governments
• Federal agencies like the Commerce Department, the Treasury Department a...
IRANIAN CYBER ACTORS BEHIND ONLINE DEATH THREATS TO US ELECTION OFFICIALS: FBI
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• Website named “enemiesofthepeople” contained private information and pictures of the government and private sector officials involved in the management of US election
• According to the sources, former head of the US Cybersecurity and Infrast...
U.S. SECRETARY POMPEO ACCUSES RUSSIA OF BACKING A MASSIVE CYBERATTACK ON U.S.
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• Pompeo said “There was a significant effort to use a piece of third-party software to essentially embed code inside of US government systems
• Tech giant Microsoft on Thursday evening said it had notified over 40 customers hit by the malware
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