Tag Archives: hacking

Hackers launch over 840,000 attacks through Log4J flaw

Matejmo | Getty Images reader comments 74 with 51 posters participating Share this story Hackers including Chinese state-backed groups have launched more than 840,000 attacks on companies globally since last Friday, according to researchers, through a previously unnoticed vulnerability in a widely used piece of open-source software called Log4J. Cyber security group Check Point said… Read More »

Really stupid “smart contract” bug let hackers steal $31 million in digital coin

reader comments 80 with 60 posters participating, including story author Share this story Blockchain startup MonoX Finance said on Wednesday that a hacker stole $31 million by exploiting a bug in software the service uses to draft smart contracts. The company uses a decentralized finance protocol known as MonoX that lets users trade digital currency… Read More »

How hackers hijacked thousands of high-profile YouTube accounts

Future Publishing | Getty Images reader comments 49 with 35 posters participating Share this story Since at least 2019, hackers have been hijacking high-profile YouTube channels. Sometimes they broadcast cryptocurrency scams, sometimes they simply auction off access to the account. Now, Google has detailed the technique that hackers-for-hire used to compromise thousands of YouTube creators… Read More »

Hackers siphon $600 million in digital tokens, crypto network says

reader comments 39 with 36 posters participating Share this story A decentralized financial network has claimed hackers absconded with about $600 million worth of cryptocurrencies in one of the largest heists to target the growing digital asset industry. Poly Network, which links some of the world’s most widely used digital ledgers, said on Tuesday that… Read More »

Two-for-Tuesday vulnerabilities send Windows and Linux users scrambling

reader comments 116 with 71 posters participating Share this story The world woke up on Tuesday to two new vulnerabilities—one in Windows and the other in Linux—that allow hackers with a toehold in a vulnerable system to bypass OS security restrictions and access sensitive resources. As operating systems and applications become harder to hack, successful… Read More »

Apple’s ransomware mess is the future of online extortion

Aurich Lawson reader comments 53 with 46 posters participating Share this story On the day Apple was set to announce a slew of new products at its Spring Loaded event, a leak appeared from an unexpected quarter. The notorious ransomware gang REvil said they had stolen data and schematics from Apple supplier Quanta Computer about… Read More »

US government strikes back at Kremlin for SolarWinds hack campaign

Matt Anderson Photography/Getty Images reader comments 29 with 23 posters participating Share this story US officials on Thursday formally blamed Russia for backing one of the worst espionage hacks in recent US history and imposed sanctions designed to mete out punishments for that and other recent actions. In a joint advisory, the National Security Agency,… Read More »