Incidents

Media outlets in India report that an unidentified hacker managed to steal around $1 million from Razorpay, a payment processing company. Apparently, the attacker remained hidden in the company’s systems for three months, manipulating security mechanisms to authenticate over 800 illegitimate transactions. Razorpay Software Private Limited provides online payment services that allow businesses in India […]

OpenSea, probably the most famous non-fungible token (NFT) market platform, has being target of another cyberattack incident. This time, the hack involves its Discord server, where a massive phishing attack was carried out against several users who clicked on a link that led to claim a supposed free NFT. Reports began during the early hours […]

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) reports that it has begun an investigation into alleged cyberattacks that would have compromised up to 16 databases of federal agencies. According to KrebsOnSecurity researchers, this incident could be related to a cybercriminal group whose members pose as law enforcement officers in order to access sensitive information. A few […]

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Marcos Ponce, 37, has been sentenced to five years in prison for his participation in a fraudulent scheme based on the purchase of stolen PayPal account credentials, defrauding affected users of more than $1 million USD. The Austin, Texas, resident pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit electronic […]

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has accused a British citizen of stealing money from investor accounts after hacking into email servers and computers in banks and brokerage houses, committing bank fraud for more than $5 million USD. In the complaint, a total of 10 charges were filed against Idris Dayo Mustapha, accusing him of […]

Fortress Protocol, an algorithmic marketplace platform and decentralized finance (DeFi) lending protocol, suffered the loss of all its funds following a massive cyberattack. Apparently, the stolen assets were connected from Binance Smart Chain to Ethereum and subsequently mixed using the Tornado Cash privacy protocol. CertiK, a firm specializing in blockchain security, released details about the […]

The legal conflict between Hollywood stars Johnny Depp and Amber Heard has caught everyone’s attention, reaching social media trends for a couple of weeks now. Although he has already lost a previous trial in the United Kingdom, Depp has not stopped receiving signs of support from his fans, some more daring than others. According to […]

Kellogg Community College at Michigan, U.S., decided to shut down its campuses and cancel every single activity after being the target of a massive cyberattack. The Battle Creek- based college with nearly 7,000 students became the target of a ransomware variant. On Sunday, the university announced the cancelation of all classes on Monday and confirmed […]

A Ukrainian businessman claims that a group of Russian military personnel in the city of Melitopol, Ukraine, stole all the equipment from an agricultural machinery dealership in order to send it to Chechnya. However, the Russian soldiers were unable to advance more than 700 miles, as the stolen equipment was blocked using a remote access […]

Google has decided to temporarily increase payments in its vulnerability bounty program for those researchers who submit reports of flaws in Android 13 Beta, in a bid to significantly improve the security of the new iteration of its operating system for mobile devices. Until May 26, researchers who find security flaws in this operating system […]

Hundreds of electric vehicle drivers on the Isle of Wight, England, were taken by surprise when screens at a local charging station began displaying pornographic content as a result of what appears to be a cyberattack against GeniePoint, the company that manages the affected charging point. According to a local report, screens at the charging […]

A group of cybercriminals managed to steal non-fungible token (NFT) worth about $3 million USD from the popular Bored Ape Yacht Club collection. Threat actors reportedly took control of the NFT collection Instagram account and posted a link to a fraudulent website from which the aforementioned assets could be stolen. The attackers caught the attention […]

Thousands of companies began to implement the remote work modality due to the pandemic, which led to a notable increase in the use of video calling tools such as Zoom. This has been exploited by malicious hackers, and even some pranksters, to deploy an attack variant known as “zoom-bombing”, which consists of breaking into private […]

Some versions of Java are affected by a critical vulnerability in the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) signature validation that would allow threat actors to digitally sign files and other data in the same way that a legitimate entity would. A hacker could pass off malicious downloads as if it were benign content without […]

The practice of data scraping has always been the subject of controversy, because although data on websites are considered public, thousands of users and specialists believe that there should be better restrictions against this information collection method. Nonetheless, authorities seem to have a clear view about it; this week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for […]

The developers of the popular cryptocurrency software MetaMask asked Apple users to disable the automatic backup feature in iCloud after Domenic Lacovone, a collector of non-fungible tokens (NFT), reported the theft of their virtual assets. The affected user, identified on Twitter as @revive_dom, reported that his digital wallet with digital assets worth about $650,000 USD […]

In its latest security report, GitHub confirmed that a group of threat actors are using OAuth tokens from legitimate users to download information from private repositories. The campaign was detected a week ago and dozens of compromised repositories have already been seen, which were using OAuth applications maintained by Heroku and Travis-CI. Mike Hanley, GitHub’s […]

On March 25, the famous singer Anitta became the first Brazilian singer to reach the number one spot of the “Daily Top 50 Global” playlist on Spotify, when her song “Envolver” reached 6.4 million streams in just one day, most of them from Brazilian users. Although this seemed like a great achievement for the young […]

An operation coordinated by Europol led to the seizure of RaidForums, one of the largest hacking forums in the world, in addition to the arrest of its main administrator. Operation TOURNIQUET, involving agents from law enforcement in the U.S. and Europe, cut short this cybercriminal infrastructure, dedicated to the purchase and sale of hacking tools, […]

A recent report notes that the ministries of foreign affairs and defense in Finland were disconnected after a denial of service (DoS) attack. Via Twitter, representatives from both agencies confirmed the incident, adding that the affected services have already been restored and security measures will be taken to prevent further incidents. “For the time being, […]

Romanian authorities have confirmed the arrest of the operators of some fraudulent dark web platforms on which the defendants offered the services of fake for-hire murderers. The fake hitmen, operating platforms such as Besa Mafia, Cosa Nostra and Crimebay, will face charges of incitement to murder, organized crime and money laundering. Agents of the Service […]