Daily Cyber Brief
Hive ransomware claims attack on NYRA, Imperva announces it stopped a record-breaking DDoS attack, and a hacker steals $160M from Wintermute...
Cybersecurity
In the latest eye-watering crypto heist, Wintermute, a market-making firm, has been hacked for $160 million, according to its CEO. Early Tuesday morning, CEO Evgeny Gaevoy posted on Twitter that the company was experiencing an ongoing hack that had drained the funds…
Kiwi Farms is a website that hosts user-generated content and discussion forums. The site has been accused of doxing, harassment, and cyberbullying. Last month Hackread.com reported about Kiwi Farms and Cloudflare issues and now, reports are that the website has been hit by…
The Hive ransomware operation claimed responsibility for an attack on the New York Racing Association (NYRA), which previously disclosed that a cyber attack on June 30, 2022, impacted IT operations and website availability and compromised member data…
If you ask ‘Yuki’ why he helped found a channel on Telegram to facilitate the settling of scores in the mobile phone hacking community, he says it was about supply and demand. Lots of young SIM swappers were looking for a way to get back at enemies in the real world…
Internet security company Imperva has announced its DDoS (distributed denial of service) mitigation solution has broken a new record, defending against a single attack that sent over 25.3 billion requests to one of its customers. The target was a Chinese telecommunications…
A unique multistep cyberattack has been observed in the wild that attempts to trick users into playing a malicious video that ultimately serves up a spoofed Microsoft page to steal credentials. The team at Perception Point released a report on the phishing campaign…
A new vulnerability in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) would allow unauthorized access to cloud storage volumes of all users, hence violating cloud isolation. The flaw, discovered by secure cloud experts at Wiz in June and dubbed AttachMe, is now being discussed in a…
American video game publisher 2K has confirmed that its help desk platform was hacked and used to target customers with fake support tickets pushing malware via embedded links. "Earlier today, we became aware that an unauthorized third party illegally accessed the…
The threat actors behind the InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) cyber–attack reported earlier this month admitted doing it 'for fun.' The hackers made the admission to the BBC over the weekend, saying they are a couple from Vietnam who tried to conduct a ransomware…
Hackers are more frequently using social engineering attacks to gain access to corporate credentials and breach large networks. One component of these attacks that is becoming more popular with the rise of multi-factor authentication is a technique called MFA Fatigue…