Spanish Police Takes Down Massive Cybercrime Ring, 40 Arrested
May 11, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Crime / Phishing The National Police of Spain said it arrested 40 individuals for their alleged involvement in an organized crime…
Month: May 2023
HackerOne Congratulates the Department of Defense on 11K Vulnerability Reports
HackerOne and the U.S. Department of Defense began working together in 2016 with the launch of Hack the Pentagon. Announced at the third annual Security@…
Kingston’s SSD firmware has Coldplay lyrics hidden within it
What has firmware got to do with pop rock, you ask? That’s the question that crossed a security researcher’s mind as he analyzed Kingston’s firmware and…
New APT Group Red Stinger Targets Military and Critical Infrastructure in Eastern Europe
A previously undetected advanced persistent threat (APT) actor dubbed Red Stinger has been linked to attacks targeting Eastern Europe since 2020. “Military, transportation, and critical…
How to become a Detectify Crowdsource hacker
Detectify Crowdsource is a platform where hackers can submit vulnerabilities in web applications. Their findings are reviewed by our security team, and built into our…
Former Ubiquiti dev who extorted the firm gets six years in prison
Nickolas Sharp, a former senior developer of Ubiquiti, was sentenced to six years in prison for stealing company data, attempting to extort his employer, and…
Risk of cyber-attack “worry” for Eurovision contest
While there is no specific intelligence about an attacked planned for the weekend, experts from the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre have been drafted to…
British hacker pleads guilty to hacking schemes, faces 77 years in prison
O’Connor, known as PlugwalkJoe on the internet, admitted to committing various offences such as computer intrusion, extortion, stalking, wire fraud, and money laundering, and entered…
Google AI targets programmer productivity
Deutsche Bank is one of a number of organisations testing Google’s generative artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) at scale. At the Google…
Twitter rolls out encrypted DMs, but only for paying accounts
Twitter has launched its ‘Encrypted Direct Messages’ feature allowing paid Twitter Blue subscribers to send end-to-end encrypted messages to other users on the platform. End-to-end…
You Often Don’t Disclose Cybersecurity Incidents. You Should
An increasing number of ransomware victims in the UK hesitate to disclose cybersecurity incidents, noted NCSC Incident Management Deputy Director Eleanor Fairford and ICO Regulatory…
8 High-Impact Bugs and How HackerOne Customers Avoided a Breach: Privilege Escalation
Customers tell us that a big difference between hacker-powered security and traditional approaches is the impact. Since hackers make money for reporting vulnerabilities with a…