Over in the no-honor-among-thieves department, Daryna Antoniuk reports: Solaris, one of the leading darknet drug marketplaces, has been taken over by its rival, according to research released this week. Users who tried to access Solaris after January 13 were redirected to the recently-launched Russian language drug marketplace known as Kraken, which claimed to have successfully taken over…
Category: Hack
WA: Therapist notifies clients after tricked by a hacker
Some breaches may be more embarrassing to admit to than others. Kudos to this therapist for forthrightly informing the Washington state attorney general what happened: I am writing to advise you of a computer data breach, which occurred from December 2 to December 4, 2022. I was contacted by a person representing himself as an…
North Korean Hacking Group Tied to $100M Harmony Hack Moves 41,000 Ether Over Weekend
Shaurya Malwa reports: Pseudonymous blockchain sleuth ZachXBT said on Monday that part of the funds tied to last year’s $100 million attack on the Harmony network were moved over the weekend. “North Korea’s Lazarus Group had a very busy weekend, moving $63.5 million (~41,000 ETH) from the Harmony bridge hack through Railgun before consolidating funds…
Sorry, Not Sorry: Guccifer, the Hacker Who Launched Clinton Email Flap, Speaks Out After Nearly a Decade Behind Bars
Sam Biddle reports: Marcel Lehel Lazar walked out of Federal Correctional Institute Schuylkill, a Pennsylvania prison, in August 2021. The 51-year-old formerly known only as Guccifer had spent over four years incarcerated for an email hacking spree against America’s elite. Though these inbox disclosures arguably changed the course of the nation’s recent history, Lazar himself…
Bits ‘n Pieces (Trozos y Piezas)
ES: City Council of Durango “Completely Paralyzed” by Cyberattack The City Council of Durango in Biscay reports it is “completely paralyzed” by a cyberattack last Saturday. The news site Durangon quotes the Deputy Mayor, Iker Urkiza (machine translation) that the ‘hacking “has been serious” and that it will paralyze their computer systems “for weeks.” According…
SEC sues Covington law firm for names of 300 clients caught up in hack
Andrew Goudsward reports: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has sued law firm Covington & Burling for details about nearly 300 of the firm’s clientsd whose information was accessed or stolen by hackers in a previously undisclosed cyberattack, court documents show. Hackers associated with the Hafnium cyber-espionage group, which has alleged ties to the Chinese…