Estonian Arrested for Buying Metasploit Pro to be Used in Russia
On March 28, 2023, Andrey Shevlyakov, a 45-year-old Estonian national, was arrested in Tallinn and charged with 18 counts of conspiracy and other charges. The [more…]
Category: Security Incidents
Yearn Finance Hack: Lessons Learned for DeFi Security
A hacker took advantage of an outdated contract from Yearn Finance, a DeFi platform, and stole $11.6 million in stablecoins on Thursday. By exploiting a [more…]
CISA adds new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
On April 8, 2023, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) updated its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog with five new security flaws, including [more…]
NPM Open Source Package Repository Flooded with Bogus Packages
Recently, the npm open source package repository for Node.js was flooded with bogus packages that even resulted in a denial-of-service (DoS) attack. According to a [more…]
Minneapolis Public Schools Data Leaked By Medusa Hackers
In a recent cyber attack, the Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) had their district data stolen by the notorious hacking group, Medusa. This security breach not [more…]
Hacker Stole $8.5 million Worth of Crypto Assets Amid Exploding Platypus Blockchain
On Thursday evening (February 17,2023), an exploit took place on Platypus Blockchain, a DeFi stablecoin swapping protocol operating on Avalanche, resulting in the loss of [more…]
GoDaddy Suffers a Security Breach
GoDaddy, a leading web hosting company, has disclosed a breach in which its cPanel shared hosting environment was compromised by unknown attackers who stole source [more…]
Spain Orders Extradition of British Hacker to US
The National Court of Spain has approved the extradition of Joseph James O’Connor, a British national accused of involvement in computer attacks, which includes the [more…]
Russian Hacker Attacks Against Ukraine Are Up 250%
Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has released a report stating that Ukrainian targets have been bombarded with a relentless digital attack by Russian state-sponsored hackers [more…]
Hackers Attack Bahrain’s International Airport Website
On Tuesday February 14, 2023, an Arabic hacking group known as Al-Toufan (the flood) claimed responsibility for the attacking Bahrain’s international airport website, Bahrain state [more…]
