News for August 11, 2024

News for August 11, 2024

By I_g_o_r | Some news | 10 Aug 2024


CrowdStrike claps back at Delta, says airline rejected offers for help

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/08/crowdstrike-claps-back-at-delta-says-airline-rejected-offers-for-help/

 

Critical 1Password Security Flaw Could Let Hackers Steal Unlock Key

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2024/08/07/critical-1password-security-flaw-could-let-hackers-steal-unlock-key/

 

China starts testing national cyber-ID before consultation on the idea closes

https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/05/china_cyber_id_pilot/

 

Threat Actor Allegedly Claims Leak of SisaCloud Database

https://gbhackers.com/claims-leak-of-sisacloud-database/

 

Crypto hackers buy Ethereum dip using stolen funds

https://cointelegraph.com/news/hackers-buy-eth-nomad-bridge-exploit

 

A flaw in Rockwell Automation ControlLogix 1756 could expose critical control systems to unauthorized access

https://securityaffairs.com/166581/ics-scada/rockwell-automation-controllogix-1756-flaw.html

 

Revolutionary Dual Action Antibiotic Makes Bacterial Resistance Nearly Impossible

https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/08/04/0252222/revolutionary-dual-action-antibiotic-makes-bacterial-resistance-nearly-impossible

 

Chinese hacker group StormBamboo successfully hijacked an ISP's automatic software updates with backdoor malware and bad Chrome extensions to breach a downstream target

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/chinese-hacker-group-stormbamboo-successfully-hijacked-an-isps-automatic-software-updates-with-backdoor-malware-and-bad-chrome-extensions-to-breach-a-downstream-target

 

Hackers Infect Windows With Backdoor Malware Via “Car For Sale” Ad!!!

https://gbhackers.com/hackers-infect-windows-car-ad/

 

Founder of Collapsed Social Media Site 'IRL' Charged With Fraud Over Faked Users

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/08/05/0437221/founder-of-collapsed-social-media-site-irl-charged-with-fraud-over-faked-users

 

New SLUBStick Attack Makes Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities More Dangerous

https://www.securityweek.com/new-slubstick-attack-makes-linux-kernel-vulnerabilities-more-dangerous/

 

Galaxy Research released a report suggesting that most Bitcoin layer-2 scaling networks may not be sustainable in the long term!!!

https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-layer-2-rollups-sustainability-challenges

 

Mint-stealer Targeting web browsers, VPN clients & messaging apps to Steal Logins

https://gbhackers.com/mint-stealer-targeting-web-browsers/

 

Cyber Report: The personal cybersecurity concierge is a new perk, and need, among the wealthy

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/26/personal-cybersecurity-concierge-new-perk-wealthy.html

 

PsyWar: Enforcing the New World Order | Dr. Robert Malone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-cV5WUuyB4

 

332 Million Email Addresses Scraped from SOCRadar.io Published Online

https://hackread.com/332-million-email-addresses-scraped-from-socradar-io/

 

US nears milestone in race to prevent quantum hacking

https://www.ft.com/content/f602b685-8226-42b4-9336-e488c63c37bf

 

Keytronic reports losses of over $17 million after ransomware attack

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/keytronic-reports-losses-of-over-17-million-after-ransomware-attack/

 

How Someone Can Ruin Your Credit Without Committing Identity Theft

https://lifehacker.com/money/how-someone-can-ruin-your-credit-without-identity-theft

 

Ronin Network exploited for $9.8M in ETH, white hat hacker suspected

https://cointelegraph.com/news/ronin-network-exploit-9-8m-eth-white-hat-hacker

 

Struggling AI Startups Look for a Bailout from Big Tech

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/struggling-ai-startups-look-for-a-bailout-from-big-tech-3e635927?mod=hp_lead_pos9

 

“A Terrible Vulnerability”: Cybersecurity Researcher Discovers Yet Another Flaw in Georgia’s Voter Cancellation Portal

https://www.propublica.org/article/cybersecurity-expert-finds-another-flaw-in-georgia-voter-portal

 

Data Breach: 3 Billion National Public Data Records with SSNs Dumped Online

https://hackread.com/data-breach-national-public-data-records-ssns-dumped/

 

Devices with insecure SSH services are everywhere, say infosec duo

https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/07/vulnerable_ssh_implementations_are_everywhere/

 

A US Judge Ruled That Google Is an Illegal Monopolist

https://www.wired.com/story/google-search-monopoly-judge-amit-mehta-options/

 

Hacker wipes 13,000 devices after breaching classroom management platform

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hacker-wipes-13-000-devices-after-breaching-classroom-management-platform/

 

31% of Republicans say vaccines are more dangerous than diseases they prevent

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/08/31-of-republicans-say-vaccines-are-more-dangerous-than-diseases-they-prevent/

 

Nexera DeFi Protocol Hacked: $1.8M Stolen in Major Smart Contract Exploit

https://hackread.com/nexera-defi-protocol-hacked-smart-contract-exploit/

 

A US judge orders Ripple to pay a $125M penalty for selling XRP to institutional investors

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-07/ripple-labs-is-ordered-to-pay-125-million-penalty-in-sec-case

 

BEWARE! THIS IS A MASSIVE CON-JOB!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2wrq3wpj_A

 

Beijing hides gold buying in plain sight!!!

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2024-08-09/beijing-hides-gold-buying-plain-sight

 

Ronin Network Falls Victim to Another Exploit, Loses Over $11M

https://cryptopotato.com/ronin-network-falls-victim-to-another-exploit-loses-over-11m/

 

Dell reportedly cuts over 12,000 jobs

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/dell-reportedly-cuts-over-12000-jobs-as-it-seeks-to-streamline-its-structure-and-boost-profitability

 

Thousands of Exposed Industrial Control Systems in US, UK Threaten Water Supplies

https://hackread.com/exposed-industrial-control-systems-us-uk-water-risk/

 

Physicists develop new method to combine conventional internet with the quantum internet

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/08/240805134133.htm

 

Nomad Bridge hacker moves $35.2M in ETH to Tornado Cash

https://cointelegraph.com/news/nomad-bridge-hacker-transfers-35m-eth-tornado-cash

 

After 33 Years, GameStop Shuts Down And Disappears

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/08/06/after-33-years-gamestop-shuts-down-and-disappears-game-informer/

 

McLaren confirms cyberattack across its 13 Michigan hospitals, physician network

https://www.freep.com/story/news/health/2024/08/07/mclaren-health-cares-tech-woes-caused-by-2nd-cyberattack-in-a-year/74685968007/

 

Watch How a Hacker’s Infrared Laser Can Spy on Your Laptop’s Keystrokes!!!

https://www.wired.com/story/infrared-laser-microphone-keystroke-surveillance/

 

Olympic venue among 40 museums hit by ransomware attack: French police source

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240806-olympic-venue-among-40-museums-hit-by-ransomware-attack-french-police-source

 

To-Earn Crypto Platforms And The Question Of Sustainability

https://hackernoon.com/to-earn-crypto-platforms-and-the-question-of-sustainability

 

Mobile Guardian App Breach Impacts Students at 26 Schools In Singapore

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/mobile-guardian-application-remove-cybersecurity-incident-moe-4526676

 

Big Tech is hyping up the power of AI tools. Some of their clients aren't as impressed

https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-reality-vs-hype-letdown-big-tech-2024-8

 

Unauthorized access at a city government in Florida, USA?

https://www.local10.com/news/local/2024/08/06/north-miami-city-hall-remains-closed-following-possible-cyber-attack/

 

Nexera burns stolen 32.5M NXRA tokens following hack

https://cointelegraph.com/news/nexera-burns-stolen-nxra-tokens-after-hack

 

ADT confirms data breach after customer info leaked on hacking forum

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/adt-confirms-data-breach-after-customer-info-leaked-on-hacking-forum/

 

Study Estimates Millions in US Risk Liver Damage From Herbal Remedies

https://www.sciencealert.com/study-estimates-millions-in-us-risk-liver-damage-from-herbal-remedies

 

Chip Flaw ‘GhostWrite’ Steals Data from CPU

https://hackread.com/black-hat-usa-2024-chip-flaw-ghostwrite-data-cpu-memory/

 

A simple way to simulate “perfect passwords” with dynamical passwords generators (DPGs)

https://www.publish0x.com/simple-solutions-to-complex-problems/a-simple-way-to-simulate-perfect-passwords-with-dynamical-pa-xzqexwv

 

Leaked MDM Credentials Exposes Commonly Laptops And Smartphones For Hacking

https://gbhackers.com/leaked-mdm-credentials/

 

Bitrace warns of new crypto scam using QR codes

https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitrace-warns-new-crypto-scam-using-qr-codes

 

Germany unveils world’s first hybrid quantum supercomputer

https://sciencebusiness.net/news/r-d-funding/germany-unveils-worlds-first-hybrid-quantum-supercomputer

 

WazirX to restore balances of accounts, undo all trades affected by hack

https://cryptoslate.com/wazirx-to-restore-balances-of-accounts-undo-all-trades-affected-by-hack/

 

Home alarm company ADT says hackers obtained ‘limited’ customer data

https://therecord.media/adt-says-hackers-obtained-limited-customer-data

 

ARGENTINA’S GOLD IS MISSING

https://gizadeathstar.com/2024/08/argentinas-gold-is-missing/

 

Confusion Attacks Vulnerability In Apache HTTP Server Allow Attackers To Gain Root Access Remotely

https://gbhackers.com/confusion-attacks-vulnerability-in-apache-http-server/

 

CSC ServiceWorks discloses data breach after 2023 cyberattack

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/csc-serviceworks-discloses-data-breach-after-2023-cyberattack/

 

'0.0.0.0 Day' Flaw Puts Chrome, Firefox, Mozilla Browsers at RCE Risk

https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/0000-day-flaw-puts-chrome-firefox-mozilla-browsers-at-rce-risk

 

Five zero-days impacts EoL Cisco Small Business IP Phones.

https://securityaffairs.com/166811/uncategorized/zero-days-eof-small-business-ip-phones.html

 

The Fed Is Powerless

https://dailyreckoning.com/the-fed-is-powerless/

 

Threat Actors Exploiting Windows Systems To Deploy Multiple Malwares

https://gbhackers.com/windows-malware-exploits/

 

Vulnerability Allowed Eavesdropping via Sonos Smart Speakers

https://www.securityweek.com/vulnerability-allowed-eavesdropping-via-sonos-smart-speakers/

 

Flaws in Ubiquitous ATM Software Could Have Let Attackers Take Over Cash Machines

https://www.wired.com/story/vss-atm-vulnerabilities-defcon-2024/

 

How malicious hardware wallet firmware can leak your Bitcoin seed phrase!!!

https://cryptoslate.com/how-malicious-hardware-wallet-firmware-can-leak-your-bitcoin-seed-phrase/

 

Trump Jr. to launch DeFi platform, $510B sell-off wipes 2024 crypto gains: Finance Redefined

https://cointelegraph.com/news/trump-jr-defi-platform-510b-crypto-selloff-2024

 

Sellafield, World's Largest Store of Plutonium, Apologizes After Guilty Plea Over String of Cybersecurity Failings

https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/08/09/1234219/sellafield-worlds-largest-store-of-plutonium-apologizes-after-guilty-plea-over-string-of-cybersecurity-failings

 

Home Security Giant ADT Admits It Has Been Hacked

https://gizmodo.com/home-security-giant-adt-admits-it-has-been-hacked-2000484710

 

Panpsychism: Quantum Superposition and Entanglement or Qubits without Cells?

https://hackernoon.com/panpsychism-quantum-superposition-and-entanglement-or-qubits-without-cells

 

Ray Dalio's Warning For The Economic Crisis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlLnwkzmPz0

 

How Hackers Extracted the ‘Keys to the Kingdom’ to Clone HID Keycards

https://www.wired.com/story/hid-keycard-authentication-key-vulnerability/

 

How a cybersecurity researcher befriended, then doxed, the leader of LockBit ransomware gang

https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/09/how-a-cybersecurity-researcher-befriended-then-doxed-the-leader-of-lockbit-ransomware-gang/

 

Cash App Users May Claim Up to $2,500 in Data Breach Settlement!!!

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/09/business/cash-app-settlement.html

 

A researcher shows five proof-of-concept ways that Copilot can be manipulated by attackers, including turning it into an automatic spear-phishing machine

https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-copilot-phishing-data-extraction/

 

Microsoft Researchers Report Iran Hackers Targeting US Officials Before Election

https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/08/09/1339236/microsoft-researchers-report-iran-hackers-targeting-us-officials-before-election

 

How to watch Olympics: Live stream Paris 2024 games free from anywhere

https://www.businessinsider.com/guides/streaming/how-to-watch-olympics-live-stream-paris-2024

 

Cow and Calf Die After Hackers Attack Farm's Milking Robot

https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/08/09/2038220/cow-and-calf-die-after-hackers-attack-farms-milking-robot

 

Quantum Computing Luminaries Launch Qolab to Develop ‘High-Quality’ Superconducting Qubits

https://thequantuminsider.com/2024/08/09/quantum-computing-luminaries-launch-qolab-to-develop-high-quality-superconducting-qubits/

 

There's Just One Problem: AI Isn't Intelligent, And That's A Systemic Risk

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/theres-just-one-problem-ai-isnt-intelligent-and-thats-systemic-risk

 

IonQ invents a novel, low-overhead approach for partial quantum error correction

https://www.insidequantumtechnology.com/news-archive/quantum-news-briefs-august-9-ionq-invents-a-novel-low-overhead-approach-for-partial-quantum-error-correction-btq-technologies-announces-award-of-academic-grants-from-mitacs-wsj/

 

Midnight Blizzard Breached UK Home Office via Microsoft

https://hackread.com/russia-midnight-blizzard-breach-uk-home-office-microsoft/

 

Researchers discover potentially catastrophic exploit present in AMD chips for decades

https://www.engadget.com/cybersecurity/researchers-discover-potentially-catastrophic-exploit-present-in-amd-chips-for-decades-161541359.html

 

Student raised security concerns in Mobile Guardian MDM weeks before cyberattack

https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/09/student-raised-security-concerns-in-mobile-guardian-mdm-weeks-before-cyberattack/

 

Google Researchers Found Nearly a Dozen Flaws in Popular Qualcomm Software for Mobile GPUs

https://www.wired.com/story/google-android-red-team-qualcomm-gpu-flaws/

 

It's official: Legalized sports betting is destroying young men's financial futures

https://www.businessinsider.com/sports-betting-debt-bankruptcy-gambling-young-men-research-addiction-2024-8

 

The Royal Mint, official maker of British coins, begins mining gold from motherboards

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/manufacturing/the-royal-mint-official-maker-of-british-coins-begins-mining-gold-from-motherboards

 

SanDisk introduces the first 8TB SD and 4TB microSD cards

https://liliputing.com/sandisk-introduces-the-first-8tb-sd-and-4tb-microsd-cards/

 

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