News for July 14, 2024

By I_g_o_r | Some news | 14 Jul 2024


Major ISP Accused of Mass Malware Attack on Customers

https://hackread.com/isp-mass-malware-attack-on-customers/

 

Shopify denies it was hacked, links stolen data to third-party app

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/shopify-denies-it-was-hacked-links-stolen-data-to-third-party-app/

 

Insurers Pocketed $50 Billion From Medicare for Diseases No Doctor Treated

https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/medicare-health-insurance-diagnosis-payments-b4d99a5d

 

Investigation: the US Cyber Safety Review Board didn't investigate, for unclear reasons, the weaknesses in Microsoft tools that the SolarWinds hack exploited

https://www.propublica.org/article/cyber-safety-board-never-investigated-solarwinds-breach-microsoft

 

The era of global integration and accord has ended

https://dailyreckoning.com/glocalization/

 

Mt. Gox starts repaying its customers, who will receive only ~15% of their lost bitcoin, which would have been worth 100+ times more than their 2014 holdings

https://www.wired.com/story/after-a-10-year-wait-mt-gox-bitcoin-is-finally-being-returned/

 

Supreme Court Ruling Threatens the Framework of Cybersecurity Regulation

https://www.securityweek.com/supreme-court-ruling-threatens-the-framework-of-cybersecurity-regulation/

 

Microsoft Orders China Staff To Use iPhones for Work and Drop Android

https://slashdot.org/story/24/07/08/0859243/microsoft-orders-china-staff-to-use-iphones-for-work-and-drop-android

 

SiegedSec Hacks Heritage Foundation; Leaks Data Over “Project 2025”

https://hackread.com/siegedsec-hacks-heritage-foundation-project-2025/

 

Roblox vendor data breach exposes dev conference attendee info

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/roblox-vendor-data-breach-exposes-dev-conference-attendee-info/

 

Crypto exploits near $1.4B this year as hackers target CeFi: Report

https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-exploits-near-1-4-billion-2024-hackers-target-cefi-report

 

Goldman Sachs Fails Fed Stress Test

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2024-07-08/goldman-sachs-fails-fed-stress-test

 

Australia accuses China-backed hackers of breaching government networks

https://www.ft.com/content/7b02f495-2673-4e61-b395-26fa14dba6a2

 

The scary new ways you’re about to get overcharged for everything

https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-quietly-picking-your-pocket-with-personalized-pricing-2024-7

 

New Golang Botnet “Zergeca” Discovered, Delivers Brutal DDoS Attacks

https://hackread.com/golang-botnet-zergeca-ddos-attacks/

 

Pancake Bunny hacker siphons $2.9M of Ether through Tornado Cash

https://cointelegraph.com/news/stolen-pancakebunny-funds-tornado-cash-dormancy

 

Uruguay Is Considered Less Corrupt Than The US & Spain

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/uruguay-considered-less-corrupt-us-spain

 

Malware Developers Increasingly Use V8 Javascript for Evasion

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1dz73uu/malware_developers_increasingly_use_v8_javascript/

 

Ransomware Gang Leaks Data Allegedly Stolen from Florida Department of Health

https://www.securityweek.com/ransomware-gang-leaks-data-allegedly-stolen-from-florida-department-of-health/

 

Turla Hackers Weaponizing LNK-Files To Deploy Fileless Malware

https://gbhackers.com/turla-hackers-lnk-fileless-malware/

 

10B Passwords Pop Up on Dark Web 'RockYou2024' Release

https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/10b-passwords-pop-up-on-dark-web-rockyou2024-release

 

Investors lose $1.6M after Doja Cat’s X reportedly hacked to promote scam coin

https://cointelegraph.com/news/investors-lose-1-6-million-doja-cat-x-reportedly-hacked

 

Ghostscript Rendering Platform Vulnerability Let Attackers Execute Remote Code

https://gbhackers.com/ghostscript-rendering-vulnerability/

 

Hacker Leaks Thousands of Microsoft and Nokia Employee Details

https://hackread.com/hacker-leaks-microsoft-nokia-employee-details/

 

City of Philadelphia says over 35,000 hit in May 2023 breach

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/city-of-philadelphia-says-over-35-000-hit-in-may-2023-breach/

 

Goldman's Head Of Research Crucifies The "AI Bubble": Not One Transformative Application Has Been Found

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/goldmans-head-research-crucifies-ai-bubble-not-one-transformative-application-has-been

 

Ransomware crews investing in custom data stealing malware

https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/10/ransomware_data_exfil_malware/

 

NATO-backed Project HEIST to protect subsea internet by diverting it to space

https://thenextweb.com/news/nato-backed-project-protect-subsea-internet-diverting-to-space

 

Fujitsu confirms customer data exposed in March cyberattack

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fujitsu-confirms-customer-data-exposed-in-march-cyberattack/

 

The $11 Billion Marketplace Enabling the Crypto Scam Economy

https://www.wired.com/story/pig-butchering-scam-crypto-huione-guarantee/

 

Crypto Giants Lido and Rocket Pool Face SEC Scrutiny Over Staking Programs

https://hackernoon.com/crypto-giants-lido-and-rocket-pool-face-sec-scrutiny-over-staking-programs

 

Compound Finance site potentially breached — ZachXBT

https://cointelegraph.com/news/compound-finance-website-hijacked-security-warning

 

Data Breach Exposes Millions of mSpy Spyware Customers

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/07/11/2221252/data-breach-exposes-millions-of-mspy-spyware-customers

 

NTT Data: Lack of ‘trust’ is the biggest challenge in the adoption of AI

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2024/06/27/trust-is-the-biggest-challenge-in-ai-adoption.html

 

New open-source software for quantum cryptography is greater than the sum of its parts

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-source-software-quantum-cryptography-greater.html#google_vignette

 

UAE’s Lulu Hypermarket Data Breach: Hackers Claim Millions of Customer Records

https://hackread.com/uae-lulu-hypermarket-data-breach-hackers-customer-records/

 

Advance Auto Parts data breach impacts 2.3 million people

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/advance-auto-parts-data-breach-impacts-23-million-people/

 

Former Tesla AI Director reproduces GPT-2 in 24 hours for only $672 — GPT-4 costs $100 million to train

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/former-tesla-ai-director-reproduces-gpt-2-in-24-hours-for-only-672

 

Court ordered penalties for 15 teens who created naked AI images of classmates

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/07/court-ordered-penalties-for-15-teens-who-created-naked-ai-images-of-classmates/

 

Privacy expert put away for 9 years after 'grotesque' cyberstalking campaign

https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/11/cyberstalker_jailed/

 

Hackers Created 700+ Fake Domains to Sell Olympic Games Tickets

https://gbhackers.com/fake-domains-olympic-games-tickets/

 

DeFi apps targeted in apparent Squarespace DNS registry attack: Blockaid

https://cointelegraph.com/news/defi-apps-targeted-squarespace-dns-registry-attack-blockaid

 

Chainalysis: more than half of all illicit transaction volume in crypto now winds up on centralized exchanges

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-11/crypto-s-100-billion-in-illicit-flows-swamp-stablecoins-exchanges

 

New FishXProxy Phishing Kit Making Phishing Accessible to Script Kiddies

https://hackread.com/new-fishxproxy-phishing-kit-script-kiddies/

 

Massive AT&T data breach exposes call logs of 109 million customers

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/massive-atandt-data-breach-exposes-call-logs-of-109-million-customers/

 

Indonesia Says It Has Begun Recovering Data After Major Ransomware Attack

https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/07/12/1446237/indonesia-says-it-has-begun-recovering-data-after-major-ransomware-attack

 

More than 1.5 million email servers running Exim vulnerable to critical attacks

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/07/more-than-1-5-million-email-servers-running-exim-vulnerable-to-critical-attacks/

 

Romance scams cost consumers $1.14 billion last year. It’s a ‘more insidious’ fraud, expert says

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/03/heres-how-to-avoid-romance-scams-which-cost-consumers-1point14-billion-last-year.html

 

Ransomware at a school district in New York, USA

https://westchester.news12.com/goshen-school-district-hit-with-cyberattack

 

DeFi Hack Alert: Squarespace Domains Vulnerable to DNS Hijacking

https://hackread.com/defi-hack-alert-squarespace-domains-dns-hijacking/

 

Macau government websites hit with cyberattack by suspected foreign hackers

https://therecord.media/macau-government-websites-hit-with-cyberattack

 

Cyberattack on the website of a meteorological service in Bangladesh

https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/news/bmd-website-hacked-recovered-after-2-hours-3652426

 

Cyber attack on a municipality in Polynésie française, France

https://www.tntv.pf/tntvnews/polynesie/societe/enquete-ouverte-apres-une-cyberattaque-contre-les-serveurs-de-mahina/

 

Cyber attack on a mining company in South Africa

https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/platinum-giant-sibanye-says-its-system-has-been-hit-cyberattack-2024-07-11/

 

Cyber attack on a university of applied sciences in Germany

https://www.heise.de/news/Cyberangriff-auf-Frankfurter-University-of-Applied-Sciences-9793380.html

 

Rite Aid confirms data breach after June ransomware attack

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/rite-aid-confirms-data-breach-after-june-ransomware-attack/

 

Dough Finance loses $1.8M in flash loan attack

https://cointelegraph.com/news/dough-finance-loses-1-8m-flash-loan-attack

 

Advance Auto Parts Data Breach Affects 2.3M Customers

https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/advance-auto-parts-data-breach-affects-2m-customers

 

Smishing Triad Is Targeting India To Steal Personal and Payment Data at Scale

https://securityaffairs.com/165632/cyber-crime/smishing-triad-is-targeting-india.html

 

Welcome to Inflationary Depression

https://dailyreckoning.com/welcome-to-inflationary-depression/

 

Coyote Banking Trojan Attacking Windows Users To Steal Login Details

https://gbhackers.com/coyote-banking-trojan-windows-attack/

 

In Other News: Apple’s Spyware Warning, CDK Global Ransom Payment, Sibanye Cyberattack

https://www.securityweek.com/in-other-news-apples-spyware-warning-cdk-global-ransom-payment-sibanye-cyberattack/

 

Crypto hacks top $1.4B, MetaMask streamlines Web3 onboarding: Finance Redefined

https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-hacks-2024-cexs-metamask-web3

 

Goldman Sachs says AI is too expensive and unreliable — firm asks if 'overhyped' AI processing will ever pay off massive investments

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/goldman-sachs-says-ai-is-too-expensive-and-unreliable

 

Major crypto projects at risk as Squarespace domain breach unfolds

https://cryptoslate.com/major-crypto-projects-at-risk-as-squarespace-domain-breach-unfolds/

 

Scientists design method to lessen reliance on air conditioning

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-scientists-method-lessen-reliance-air.html

 

CISA Broke Into a US Federal Agency, No One Noticed For a Full 5 Months!!!!!!!!

https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/07/12/2217230/cisa-broke-into-a-us-federal-agency-no-one-noticed-for-a-full-5-months

 

Disney’s Internal Slack Breached? NullBulge Leaks 1.1 TiB of Data

https://hackread.com/disneys-internal-slack-breached-nullbulge-leak-data/

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