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The wallet that deployed the DAI smart contract is compromised on all L2 networks except Arbitrum and Optimism. This was noticed by information security researcher Christopher Mooney. According to the expert, the DAI address was originally generated using the Profanity Vanity Address tool...

$2.5 million for information about the creator of the Angler Exploit Kit. The U.S. State Department has announced a reward of up to $2.5 million for information leading to the arrest or conviction of Vladimir Kadaria, accused of involvement in a major cybercriminal group. Kadaria, 38, known by...

The world will have to find out if USDoD's remorse is genuine. The USDoD hacker revealed his identity and claimed to be 33-year-old Luan G. from the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. USDoD (EquationCorp) is known for leaking National Public Data (NPD) and publishing more than 3.2 billion Social...

In October, hacker Jesse Kipf was arrested, accused of breaching the cybersecurity of several commercial companies and US health care systems. According to researchers, Kipf forged his death certificate to avoid punishment. Initially, Kipf hacked into the networks of Guest-Tek Interactive...

Now the unfortunate burglar will have to answer for his actions to the fullest extent of the law. Yesterday, August 20, in the American city of London, Kentucky, a 39-year-old resident of Somerset, Jesse Kipf, was sentenced to 81 months (6.75 years) in prison for computer fraud and identity...

Employees of the Main Investigation Department of the South Ural Police sent to the court 17 volumes of criminal cases against a 42-year-old Chelyabinsk resident accused of hacking a commercial database. The cases were initiated on the grounds of crimes under Part 2 of Article 272 (illegal...

In Spain, Maxim Silnikov was arrested and extradited to the United States, who is accused of creating a Ransom Cartel ransomware distribution campaign and organizing a large-scale malicious advertising scheme that operated from 2013 to 2022. Maxim Silnikov, 38, who goes by the pseudonyms "J. P...

KeyIso – key to the Microsoft safe deposit box. In July 2022, Microsoft made changes to its Protected Process Light (PPL) system to address a vulnerability that allows you to bypass the protection of LSASS, a critical process that is responsible for storing and managing user credentials in...

19-year-old Bill figured out how to identify a lot of vulnerabilities at once, and then fix them. Bill Demircapi, 19, an independent researcher and white-hat hacker, has developed a method to identify large-scale vulnerabilities on the Internet using non-standard data sources. The results were...

The specialist prevented cyber attacks on several large companies. A security researcher has prevented serious financial losses for six companies that may have been victims of cyber attacks. Technical Director Atropos.ai Vangelis Stikas discovered vulnerabilities in the infrastructure of...

The study confirms the usefulness of the tool for prioritizing vulnerabilities. Every year, the number of published vulnerabilities (CVEs) increases, which makes it increasingly important to predict those that require the attention of vulnerability management teams. A new study by Cyentia and...

How a broken washing machine led to a hacker discovery. Michael Orlitsky encountered problems in the laundry room of his home. CSC Serviceworks has replaced all the old machines with new ones that work either through a coin receiver or through an app. Older machines used card readers, which...

North Korea is trying by all means to extract US military secrets. The US Federal Prosecutor's Office has filed charges against North Korean hacker Rim Jong Hyuk, who, according to their information, organized a series of cyber attacks on American medical institutions. He used the funds he...

The company revealed an unusual way to recover from a CrowdStrike crash. After the recent global crash caused by a failed CrowdStrike software update, Grant Thornton's computers and servers in Australia did not escape the fate of the rest of the world's Windows devices and began to massively...

An American cybersecurity company mistakenly hired a North Korean hacker as its chief software engineer. After receiving a corporate computer, he immediately started downloading malware to it. Remote Engineer The American company KnowBe4, which deals with cybersecurity issues, mistakenly hired...

In the city of Zwolle, located in the Netherlands, recently held a trial of a 26-year-old man, whose name was not disclosed. He is accused of committing a number of computer crimes, as well as illegal possession of weapons. According to the indictment, the defendant's "computer crimes" are the...

The Supreme Court of Cassation of Kuwait has decided to release from criminal liability a well-known Kuwaiti hacker who hacked hundreds of websites around the world, including the Pentagon website. The hacker was accused of breaking into the website of the US Department of Defense, gaining...

A student of KSU became a defendant in a criminal case, KOSTROMA.TODAY learned. According to the press service of the Regional Ministry of Internal Affairs, the young man was interested in hacking programs from the beginning of his studies at the university. He wanted to gain access to other...

How wearable devices betray our privacy and what to do about it. Researchers from the University of California, San Diego have created a unique firmware update that will make smartphones invisible to surveillance via Bluetooth. The invention significantly increases the level of protection of...

The former Anonymous member talks about prison, politics, and art. Barrett Brown, a well-known activist and former member of the hacker group Anonymous, presented his new book "My Glorious defeats: hacktivist, narcissist, Anonymous" to the world. The work challenges traditional ideas about the...