Anushka Basu reports: DeltaPrime, the decentralized finance borrow and lending platform, issued a deadline for attackers to engage in conversation on fund retrieval, with a threat of legal action. DeltaPrime, the decentralized finance borrowing protocol attacked by hackers in the amount of $4.8 million on Nov 11, issued an ultimatum to the attacker to respond by 8…
Category: Hack
Ransomware attack on Bucharest: data of hundreds of thousands of citizens involved
The following is an automated machine translation. Matthew Garvey reports: The data of approximately 200,000 citizens of Sector 5 (such as CNP, first and last name, address, among others) were put up for sale by the hackers who launched a cyber attack on the City Hall at the end of October. The attackers also gained…
Throwing caution to the winds, “kiberphant0m” tries to extort AT&T with Trump and Harris call llogs
While many of us were waking up to the election results yesterday, at least one person was busy trying to extort AT&T using the president-elect and current vice president’s call logs. In their post, “kiberphant0m” posted this demand concerning AT&T call logs: TRUMP & Vice President of the United States CALL LOGS — OFFICIAL WARNING…
Hackers claimed the FREE S.A.S. data had been sold. One now claims that wasn’t true. (1)
On October 26, FREE S.A.S., a major ISP in France, confirmed that it had been hacked after a threat actor calling himself “drussellx” listed customer data up for auction on a popular hacking forum. Drussellx claimed to have acquired the information of 19.2 million subscribers on October 17, 2024. The breach “affects all FREE Mobile and…
Canada Arrests Man Suspected of Hacks of Snowflake Customers
Margi Murphy and Brian Platt report: Canadian authorities have arrested a man suspected of being behind a string of hacks involving as many as 165 customers of Snowflake Inc., according to people familiar with the matter. Following a request from the US, Alexander “Connor” Moucka was taken into custody on a provisional arrest warrant on…
FBI has conducted more than 30 disruption operations in 2024
Christian Vasquez reports: The FBI is seeing progress in the fight against ransomware gangs after conducting more than 30 disruption operations this year in which officials targeted the infrastructure used by those groups, one of the bureau’s top cybersecurity officials said Wednesday. Cynthia Kaiser, deputy assistant director of the FBI’s cyber division, said during CyberScoop’s…