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...

REvil hackers were neutralized by Russian authorities

Highlights :

•             Notorious ransomware gangs were hit by a major raid.

•             Luxury cars and crypto seized by Russian officials

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

U.S. GOVERNMENT AGENCIES WERE ATTACKED BY HACKERS: REPORT

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• According to a report from Washington Post, this attack was reportedly done on the support of the Russian government 

• Agencies under the attack were the State Department, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the FBI, the Naval Inf...

U.S. CYBERSECURITY COMPANY FireEye SAYS IT WAS HACKED

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• According to the statement issued by FireEye, it was hacked, probably by a government and several hacking tools that were used to test the defenses of its clients was stolen

• The company said “A Red Team is gathering of security experts approved a...

AFTER FACEBOOK, MICROSOFT MAKES SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS AGAINST IRANIAN HACKERS

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• According to the statement issued by Microsoft on Wednesday, it was successful in detecting attempts by the hacking group called Phosphorus to trick ex-government officials, academics and policy experts

• Iranian hackers targeted over 100 prominent peopl...

THREATENING EMAILS TO U.S. VOTERS LIKELY FROM IRANIAN HACKERS: FACEBOOK

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• While U.S. voters received thousands of threatening emails last week, and a video was released online that purported to show hackers breaking into a voter registration system just days before the US presidential election

• Facebook said it had suspended ...

RUSSIAN HACKERS TRIED TO BREAK INTO US STATE & LOCAL GOVERNMENT NETWORKS: US INTEL

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• According to the intelligence agencies, a Russian group sometimes called Dragonfly or Berserk Bear by researchers sometimes had targeted several state, tribal, local and territorial US governments and aviation networks

• The Federal Bureau of Investigati...

MAHARASHTRA GOVERNMENT DECIDES TO MOVE AAREY METRO CAR SHED TO MUMBAI'S KANJURMARG

HIGHLIGHTS

• Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has decided to relocate the Metro car shed from Aarey Colony to Kanjurmarg in Mumbai.
• Cases against Aarey protestors have been withdrawn.

On Sunday, 11 OCT 2020, Maharashtra Chie...

MAHARASHTRA GOVERNMENT PERMITS REOPENING OF RESTAURANTS, BARS FROM OCTOBER FIRST WEEK

• According to the report, all 4 lakh restaurants, bars and eatery outlets in Maharashtra state have taken a decision to resume at 50 percent capacity in an attempt to obey the government norms for social distancing

• Around 60 lakh employees will be directly benefited by this...

TECH FIRM PROVIDING SOFTWARE TO FEDERAL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS ON THE RADAR OF HACKERS

Highlights

• Software services like jail and court management systems to payroll, human resources, tax and bill collection and land records are provided by Tyler Technologies. 

• Tyler software named as Socrata has been used by several county governments in Minn...