News for July 28, 2024

News for July 28, 2024

By I_g_o_r | Some news | 27 Jul 2024


Beware Grand Theft Auto Fans! Fake GTA VI Beta Download Spreads Malware

https://hackread.com/grand-theft-auto-fake-gta-vi-beta-download-malware/

 

Police arrest a teenage boy in connection with the MGM Resorts ransomware attack

https://www.engadget.com/police-arrest-a-teenage-boy-in-connection-with-the-mgm-resorts-ransomware-attack-223906246.html

 

NHS hack prompts tougher UK cyber security rules for private providers

https://www.ft.com/content/2388ff54-2fae-4893-87df-fd3c259bfcf6

 

Telegram Android Vulnerability “EvilVideo” Sends Malware as Videos

https://hackread.com/telegram-android-vulnerability-evilvideo-malware-videos/

 

Greek opposition suggests the government should switch to Linux over Crowdstrike incident.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1e8jhcg/greek_opposition_suggests_the_government_should/

 

Fake Hot Fix for CrowdStrike ”crowdstrike-hotfix.zip” Spreads Remcos RAT

https://hackread.com/fake-hot-fix-crowdstrike-crowdstrike-hotfix-zip-remcos-rat/

 

Brain Study Suggests We Perceive Time Through Activities, Not By Minutes or Hours

https://gizmodo.com/brain-study-suggests-we-perceive-time-through-activities-not-by-minutes-or-hours-2000477110

 

Hamster Kombat’s 250 million players targeted in malware attacks

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hamster-kombats-250-million-players-targeted-in-android-windows-malware-attacks/

 

An investigation details how scammers are using crypto ATMs to commit fraud; the FBI says US losses from scams carried out via crypto ATMs was $120M+ in 2023

https://www.occrp.org/en/37-ccblog/ccblog/18883-how-crypto-atms-in-the-u-s-became-a-favorite-tool-for-scammers

 

Financial Havoc: Americans Are Feeling Poorer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThZrz8ck8pM

 

NASA’s Curiosity rover accidentally uncovered pure sulfur crystals on Mars

https://www.engadget.com/nasas-curiosity-rover-accidentally-uncovered-pure-sulfur-crystals-on-mars-211340580.html

 

Ransomware Attack Shuts Down LA County Courts, Halts Inmate Transfers, Evictions

https://hackread.com/ransomware-attack-la-county-courts-halt-inmate-transfer/

 

Department Of Defense To Give Troops 'Economic Hardship' Bonus Of $20 Per Month

https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/department-defense-give-troops-economic-hardship-bonus-20-month

 

Verizon to pay $16 million in TracFone data breach settlement

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/verizon-to-pay-16-million-in-tracfone-data-breach-settlement/

 

GOP ‘Investigates’ NTIA For Wanting To Make Broadband Affordable To Poor People

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/07/19/gop-investigates-ntia-for-wanting-to-make-broadband-affordable-to-poor-people/

 

Businesses are harvesting our biometric data. We need new protections

https://thenextweb.com/news/businesses-harvesting-biometric-data-need-protections

 

Mexico’s Largest ERP Provider ClickBalance Exposes 769 Million Records

https://hackread.com/mexico-erp-clickbalance-769-million-records-data-leak/

 

Hackers Strike Courthouses - The Ransom Hacks Never End

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT8BCMWugXw

 

American Institute of Mathematics: Approved Open Textbooks

https://textbooks.aimath.org/textbooks/approved-textbooks/

 

Popular Ukrainian Telegram Channels Hacked

https://therecord.media/ukrainian-news-telegram-channels-hacked-russian-propaganda

 

Hackers Breach Greek Property Registry, Data Exposure Uncertain

https://greekcitytimes.com/2024/07/19/hackers-breach-greek-property-registry-data-exposure-uncertain/

 

51 Days Later, Two Boeing Starliner Astronauts Still Stranded On International Space Station

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/51-days-later-two-boeing-starliner-astronauts-stranded-international-space-station

 

Play Ransomware Variant Targeting Linux ESXi Environments

https://hackread.com/play-ransomware-target-linux-esxi-environments/

 

Hackers Abusing Google Cloud For Phishing

https://gbhackers.com/hackers-abusing-google-cloud/

 

BreachForums v1 hacking forum data leak exposes members’ info

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/breachforums-v1-hacking-forum-data-leak-exposes-members-info/

 

China's 'Evasive Panda' APT Spies on Taiwan Targets Across Platforms

https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/china-evasive-panda-apt-spies-taiwan-targets-across-platforms

 

Hackers abused swap files in e-skimming attacks on Magento sites

https://securityaffairs.com/166073/malware/threat-actors-abused-swap-files-e-skimming.html

 

Beware Of Dating Apps Exposing Your Personal And Location Details To Cyber Criminals

https://gbhackers.com/dating-apps-security-risk/

 

dYdX v3 compromised in an apparent DNS attack

https://cointelegraph.com/news/dydx-v3-compromised-apparent-dns-attack

 

Switzerland Now Requires All Government Software To Be Open Source

https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/07/23/2025220/switzerland-now-requires-all-government-software-to-be-open-source

 

Chinese SMS Phishing Group Hits iPhone Users in India Post Scam

https://hackread.com/chinese-sms-phishing-group-iphone-users-india-post-scam/

 

Tech Billionaires Are Fighting Over Who’s the Biggest Asshole in Silicon Valley

https://gizmodo.com/tech-billionaires-are-fighting-over-whos-the-biggest-asshole-in-silicon-valley-2000479222

 

FrostyGoop ICS Malware Left Ukrainian City’s Residents Without Heating

https://www.securityweek.com/frostygoop-ics-malware-left-ukrainian-citys-residents-without-heating/

 

In Historic Shift, British Newspapers Begin Warning Of "Perils" Of Cashless-Society After Global IT Outage

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/historic-shift-british-newspapers-begin-warning-perils-cashless-society-after-global

 

Quantum Transistors gets $19M award to enable quantum computing on a chip

https://venturebeat.com/ai/quantum-transistors-gets-19m-award-to-enable-quantum-computing-on-a-chip/

 

Hackers Leak Documents From Pentagon IT Services Provider Leidos (reuters.com)

https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/07/23/2323210/hackers-leak-documents-from-pentagon-it-services-provider-leidos

 

Meta takes down 63,000 accounts linked to sextortion scams targeting US men

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/meta-takes-down-63000-accounts-linked-to-sextortion-scams-targeting-us-men-100006890.html

 

Ethereum ETF sell-off signals more trouble — 10x Research

https://cointelegraph.com/news/ethereum-etf-selloff-market-dynamics

 

US warns tech start-ups on security threats from foreign investors

https://www.ft.com/content/cedfc2cf-209e-4af6-97f5-56fca6ebdb56

 

Windows SmartScreen Flaw Enabling Data Theft in Major Stealer Attack

https://hackread.com/windows-smartscreen-flaw-data-theft-stealer-attack/

 

Congress Wants To Let Private Companies Own The Law

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/07/23/congress-wants-to-let-private-companies-own-the-law/

 

Pop stars got millions in pandemic aid that raised red flags for their accountants — but they took the cash anyway

https://www.businessinsider.com/nksfb-svog-blowback-rich-musicians-pandemic-relief-2024-7

 

FraudGPT and other malicious AIs are the new frontier of online threats. What can we do?

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-fraudgpt-malicious-ais-frontier-online.html

 

US requests proposals for next-gen Discovery supercomputer — will be up to five times faster than the world's fastest supercomputer, arrive in 2027

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/supercomputers/us-requests-proposals-for-discovery-supercomputer-will-be-up-to-five-times-faster-than-frontier-the-worlds-fastest-supercomputer

 

HSBC Australia to block all payments to crypto exchanges, citing scams

https://cointelegraph.com/news/hsbc-australia-bank-block-payments-crypto-exchanges

 

Indian Firm Linked to Fake DMCA Notices Silencing Journalists

https://hackread.com/fake-dmca-requests-threaten-investigative-journalism/

 

Why a majority of Americans think the economy is already in a recession

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-recession-outlook-inflation-costs-consumer-spending-affirm-soft-landing-2024-7

 

A hybrid supercomputer: Researchers integrate a quantum computer into a high-performance computing environment

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-hybrid-supercomputer-quantum-high-environment.html

 

80% Of Banks 'Going Down’; $9 Trillion Of Debt Due Soon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJJ6WjxPG4E

 

A Silicon Valley executive had $400,000 stolen by cybercriminals while buying a home. Here’s her warning

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/23/wire-fraud-in-real-estate-silicon-valley-executive-warning.html

 

The company wants to build a quantum computer containing up to 1 million qubits on a Chicago campus.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/25/1095287/psiquantum-plans-to-build-the-biggest-quantum-computing-facility-in-the-us/

 

Why does government lie so repeatedly — and so atrociously?

https://dailyreckoning.com/empire-of-lies/

 

Patched Microsoft Defender flaw still being used to deliver information-stealing malware to vulnerable machines

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/patched-microsoft-defender-flaw-still-being-used-to-deliver-information-stealing-malware-to-vulnerable-machines

 

Cameo was once valued at $1 billion. Now it's so broke it can't pay a $600,000 fine

https://www.businessinsider.com/cameo-app-company-fine-settlement-ftc-violation-2024-7

 

Chinese hackers deploy new Macma macOS backdoor version

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/evasive-panda-hackers-deploy-new-macma-macos-backdoor-version/

 

NASA just scored a badly needed win: The best potential evidence of alien life yet

https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-discovers-potential-alien-life-evidence-biosignature-perseverance-rover-mars-2024-7

 

'Stargazer Goblin' Amasses Rogue GitHub Accounts to Spread Malware

https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/stargazer-goblin-amasses-rogue-github-accounts-to-spread-malware

 

Researchers discover battery-free technology that harvests power from radio and Wi-Fi signals for low-powered devices

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/researchers-discover-battery-free-technology-which-harvests-power-from-radio-and-wi-fi-signals-for-low-powered-devices

 

Michigan Medicine data breach impacted 56,953 patients

https://securityaffairs.com/166138/cyber-crime/michigan-medicine-data-breach.html

 

U.S. Army civilian worker who stole nearly $109-million and bought mansions, luxury cars is sentenced

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-us-army-civilian-worker-who-stole-nearly-109-million-and-bought/

 

Data Breach Increases by Over 1,000% Annually

https://gbhackers.com/data-breach-increases/

 

Compound, Celer attack may have been caused by faulty migration system — DNS experts

https://cointelegraph.com/news/compound-celer-attack-migration-dns

 

Why China Is More Secretive About Its Supercomputers

https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/tech-news-briefing/why-china-is-more-secretive-about-its-supercomputers/721b12e6-eaa5-40a4-a1ea-8af86aa6a953

 

Berkshire Hathaway dumps $2.3 billion of Bank of America shares in a 6-day sale

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/25/berkshire-dumps-2point3-billion-of-bank-of-america-in-a-6-day-sale-.html

 

Secure Boot Is Completely Broken On 200+ Models From 5 Big Device Makers

https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/07/25/2028258/secure-boot-is-completely-broken-on-200-models-from-5-big-device-makers

 

Rocket delivered to launch site for first human flight to the Moon since 1972

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/07/rocket-delivered-to-launch-site-for-first-human-flight-to-the-moon-since-1972/

 

The US DOJ indicts a North Korean hacker, who remains at large, for his alleged role in Andariel group's cyberattacks on US hospitals, NASA, and military bases

https://apnews.com/article/north-korea-hacker-military-intelligence-hospitals-b3153dc0ad16652a80a9263856d63444

 

Math All But Guarantees A Recession By 2025 | Steve Hanke

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEoY77qzQFg

 

The worst internet outage still hasn’t happened yet

https://www.vox.com/technology/362735/the-worst-internet-outage-still-hasnt-happened-yet

 

Researchers Claim Anyone Can Access Deleted, Private GitHub Repository Data

https://hackread.com/anyone-access-deleted-private-github-repository-data/

 

A growing number of African countries are turning to gold to hedge geopolitical risk and protect against currency losses

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/african-countries-are-turning-gold

 

134-Year-Old American Furniture Chain Files For Bankruptcy, Closes All 553 Stores

https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/134-year-old-american-furniture-chain-files-bankruptcy-closes-all-553-stores

 

In just one week, 40 banks in China, disappeared, absorbed into larger institutions

https://marcellus.in/story/chinas-vanishing-banks-are-threatening-social-stability

https://ainsliebullion.com.au/News-Resources/Article/China-s-Banking-Turmoil-40-Banks-Vanish/ID/6399

 

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