Edith M. Lederer of AP reports: North Korea has modernized its nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles by flaunting United Nations sanctions, using cyberattacks to help finance its programs and continuing to seek material and technology overseas for its arsenal, U.N. experts said. […] The panel said its investigations found that North Korean-linked cyber actors continued…
Category: Hack
KeepChange Foils Bitcoin Theft but Loses User Data in Sunday Breach
Sebastian Sinclair reports: Bitcoin marketplace KeepChange says it has managed to limit the ramifications of a security breach on Sunday. According to a blog post on Monday, the exchange said several bitcoin withdrawal requests had been initiated from customer accounts to an address belonging to the attackers. However, one of the platform’s control subsystems halted the requests, resulting…
Hackers try to contaminate Florida town’s water supply through computer breach
This is the stuff nightmares are made of. Chris Bing reports: Hackers broke into the computer system of a facility that treats water for about 15,000 people near Tampa, Florida and sought to add a dangerous level of additive to the water supply, the Pinellas County Sheriff said on Monday. The attempt on Friday was…
As predicted, big jump in RDP attacks as hackers target staff working from home
When everyone started working from home, one of the first predictions was that there would be more breaches related to the use of Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). RDP is used by vendors or business associates to connect to their clients’ systems. As such, it’s a valuable tool, but left enabled instead of disabled, it provides…
SitePoint hacked: Hashed, salted passwords pinched from web dev learning site via GitHub tool pwnage
Gareth Corfield reports: SitePoint, an Australian learn-to-code publishing website, has been compromised while promoting the book Hacking for Dummies on its homepage. Reg reader Andy told us: “Got an email from SitePoint this morning saying that they had been hacked and some non-important (to them) stuff like names, email addresses, hashed passwords etc might have been stolen. Coincided with…
Alleged breaches impacting Indians, Malaysians, under investigation
India: Airtel continues to deny that it had a breach affecting more than 2.5 million subscribers’ data, despite reports and seeming evidence to the contrary. According to a statement they issued, the threat actors who call themselves “Red Rabbit Team” have made various claims over the past 15 months. “This group has been in touch…