News for June 9, 2024

News for June 9, 2024

By I_g_o_r | Some news | 9 Jun 2024


New law grants US president power to block digital asset access!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

https://cointelegraph.com/news/new-us-law-block-digital-assets

 

NYSE technical issue impacting some stock prices, incorrectly showing Berkshire Hathaway down 99%

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/03/nyse-technical-issue-impacting-some-stock-prices-incorrectly-showing-berkshire-hathaway-down-99percent.html

 

New V3B Phishing Kit Steals Logins and OTPs from EU Banking Users

https://hackread.com/v3b-phishing-kit-steals-logins-otps-eu-banking-users/

 

How Much Money Is Lost To Cybercrime?

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/how-much-money-lost-cybercrime

 

Leaked Google database reveals its secret privacy and security failures

https://www.engadget.com/leaked-google-database-reveals-its-secret-privacy-and-security-failures-183232983.html

 

Pop Culture Passwords Most Likely to Get You Hacked, New Study

https://hackread.com/pop-culture-passwords-get-you-hacked/

 

8220 Gang Exploiting Oracle WebLogic Server Flaw To Deploy Cryptominer

https://gbhackers.com/8220-gang-exploits-oracle-weblogic-flaw-cryptominer/

 

Hackers exploit Chrome plugin to steal millions from Binance accounts

https://cointelegraph.com/news/hackers-steal-millions-chrome-plugin-binance-scam

 

Panda shopping PandaBuy pays ransom to hacker only to get extorted again

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/pandabuy-pays-ransom-to-hacker-only-to-get-extorted-again/

 

OKX user claims to have lost $2 million in deep fake AI scam

https://cryptoslate.com/okx-user-claims-to-have-lost-2-million-in-deep-fake-ai-scam/

 

UK School Facing 'Critical Incident' After Cyberattack

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cl44877v7xxo

 

EU accuses Microsoft of secretly collecting children's data

https://www.engadget.com/eu-accuses-micrsoft-of-secretly-collecting-childrens-data-124141294.html

 

Frax Finance X account hacked, CEO suspects ‘inside job’ at Elon Musk’s office

https://cointelegraph.com/news/frax-finance-x-account-hacked-insider-elon-musk

 

EXPERTS FOUND INFORMATION OF EUROPEAN POLITICIANS ON THE DARK WEB

https://securityaffairs.com/164036/deep-web/info-european-politicians-dark-web.html

 

CarnavalHeist Weaponizing Word Documents To Steal Login Credentials

https://gbhackers.com/carnavalheist-weaponizing-word-documents-credentials/

 

Cyber attack on a ticket sales company in Australia

https://www.teg.com.au/statement-regarding-ticketek-cyber-incident/

 

Japanese DMM exchange suspends withdrawals after $305 million Bitcoin theft

https://cryptoslate.com/japanese-dmm-exchange-suspends-withdrawals-after-305-million-bitcoin-theft/

 

Critical wpDataTables Vulnerability Let Attackers Perform SQL Injection

https://gbhackers.com/critical-wpdatatables-vulnerability/

 

How scammers used 'social engineering' to steal over $1 million from an Idaho town

https://www.businessinsider.com/small-town-scam-idaho-contractor-payment-social-engineering-2024-6

 

New Phishing Campaign Uses Stealthy JPGs to Drop Agent Tesla

https://hackread.com/phishing-campaign-stealthy-jpgs-drop-agent-tesla/

 

Robinhood plans to acquire crypto exchange Bitstamp for $200M, in a deal expected to close in H1 2025, and says Bitstamp will still operate under its own brand

https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/robinhood-doubles-down-on-crypto-with-deal-for-bitstamp-eade3276?st=im5ly1rwzkq8i83

 

Linea blockchain halt highlights slow decentralization of Ethereum L2s https://cointelegraph.com/news/linea-hack-highlights-need-for-decentralization-on-ethereum-layer-twos

 

China lands on the Moon again, taking another step toward human missions

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/06/china-lands-on-the-moon-again-taking-another-step-toward-human-missions/

 

Cyber attack on a school in Switzerland

https://www.it-markt.ch/news/2024-05-31/kanti-frauenfeld-nach-ransomware-angriff-ohne-internet

 

The SBA is unveiling new credit lines of up to $5 million to fund small businesses

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/04/sba-7a-working-capital-for-small-businesses.html

 

Hundreds of Snowflake customer passwords found online are linked to info-stealing malware

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/05/snowflake-customer-passwords-found-online-infostealing-malware/

 

Bangladeshi Police Agents Accused of Selling Citizens' Personal Information on Telegram

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/06/07/1450210/bangladeshi-police-agents-accused-of-selling-citizens-personal-information-on-telegram

 

Crimson Palace: Chinese Hackers Steal Military Secrets Over 2 Years

https://hackread.com/crimson-palace-chinese-hackers-steal-military-secrets/

 

Los Angeles Unified School District investigates data theft claims

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/los-angeles-unified-school-district-investigates-data-theft-claims/

 

As Allies, Kenya & US Aim to Bolster Digital Security in Africa

https://www.darkreading.com/cybersecurity-operations/allies-kenya-us-bolster-digital-security-africa

 

Threat Actors Claiming Breach Of Heineken Employees Data

https://gbhackers.com/threat-actors-claiming-breach/

 

SPANISH POLICE SHUT DOWN ILLEGAL TV STREAMING NETWORK

https://securityaffairs.com/164083/cyber-crime/spanish-police-dismantled-pirated-tv-streaming-network.html

 

Major NHS hospitals hit by cyber attack

https://www.ft.com/content/178ab74c-7bf5-47ff-a4ba-53c350f76299

 

How to Change Shell in Linux: A Practical Approach

https://linuxiac.com/how-to-change-shell-in-linux/

 

The Achilles' Heel of Blockchain: How Validators Became the Target of a Billion-Dollar Threat

https://hackernoon.com/the-achilles-heel-of-blockchain-how-validators-became-the-target-of-a-billion-dollar-threat

 

OpenAI fixes the issue that caused ChatGPT outage for several hours

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/04/chatgpt-is-down-for-several-users-openai-is-working-on-a-fix

 

More Than Half of US Adults Will Have Cardiovascular Disease By 2050, Research Finds

https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/06/04/1522244/more-than-half-of-us-adults-will-have-cardiovascular-disease-by-2050-research-finds

 

Cybercrooks get cozy with BoxedApp to dodge detection

https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/04/cybercriminals_abusing_boxedapp/

 

A person in Mexico has dropped dead after catching H5N2, and people are already totally freaking out about this all over the Internet.

https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/now-someone-has-dropped-dead-fear-h5n2-already-starting-ripple-all-over-globe

 

Netherlands, France, and Germany lead ‘largest ever’ botnet sting

https://thenextweb.com/news/netherlands-leads-largest-ever-operation-against-botnets

 

Hotel Kiosks Vulnerability Exposed Guest Data, Room Access

https://hackread.com/hotel-kiosks-vulnerability-guest-data-room-access/

 

Ontario woman forced to pay $23,000 hospital bill despite having travel insurance

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-woman-forced-to-pay-23-000-hospital-bill-despite-having-travel-insurance-1.6915427

 

Nintendo Hits 127 Switch Piracy Tutorial Repos After ‘Cracking’ URL Encryption

https://torrentfreak.com/nintendo-hits-127-switch-piracy-tutorial-repos-after-cracking-url-encryption-240604/

 

Sources: TikTok accounts, including brands and celebrities like CNN and Paris Hilton, are getting hacked via a zero-day exploit that only requires opening a DM

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2024/06/04/a-zero-day-tiktok-hack-is-taking-over-celebrity-and-brand-accounts/

 

This Hacker Tool Extracts All the Data Collected by Windows’ New Recall AI

https://www.wired.com/story/total-recall-windows-recall-ai/

 

ChatGPT is down for the second time today

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/4/24171264/chatgpt-down-outage-errors

 

The Mysterious X Factor Behind 2023's Unbelievable Heat

https://gizmodo.com/the-mysterious-x-factor-behind-2023s-unbelievable-heat-1851522682

 

$1 Billion Crypto Scheme: NY AG Sues NovaTech, AWS Mining

https://coinfomania.com/1-billion-crypto-scheme-ny-ag-sues-novatech-aws-mining/

 

The Biggest Celebrity Scam on Solana Yet

https://hackernoon.com/the-biggest-celebrity-scam-on-solana-yet

 

New EmailGPT Flaw Puts User Data at Risk: Remove the Extension NOW

https://hackread.com/emailgpt-flaw-user-data-at-risk-remove-extension/

 

How a series of hacks, starting with BlackCat in June 2023, show the challenges facing the UK's NHS, which employs 1.7M workers and cares for 68M UK residents

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-05/hack-that-crippled-london-hospitals-is-only-the-latest-to-hit-uk

 

Apple Refused to Pay $1 Million Bounty to Kaspersky Lab for iOS Zero-days

https://gbhackers.com/apple-kaspersky-zero-days/

 

Hackers Leak 221,470 Users’ Data in “Tech in Asia” News Outlet Breach

https://hackread.com/hackers-leak-users-info-tech-in-asia-data-breach/

 

Sixteen Republican lawmakers accuse Nigeria of taking Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan “hostage” and urge Biden to help secure his release in a June 4 letter

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-05/us-lawmakers-accuse-nigeria-of-taking-binance-executive-hostage

 

361 Million Unique Email Credentials Leaked On Telegram Channels

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

 

Australian mining company discloses breach after BianLian leaks data

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/australian-mining-company-discloses-breach-after-bianlian-leaks-data/

 

Japanese crypto exchange DMM Bitcoin plans to raise ~$321M to buy back bitcoin and make users whole after an “unauthorized outflow” of 4,503 bitcoin on May 31

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-05/hacked-japan-exchange-to-raise-about-320-million-to-buy-bitcoin-btc

 

Gold Overtakes Euro in Global International Reserves

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2024-06-06/gold-overtakes-euro-global-international-reserves

 

Google Ad Tech Class Action Gets Go Ahead From London Judges

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-05/google-ad-tech-class-action-gets-go-ahead-from-london-judges

 

Internet Addiction Alters Brain Chemistry In Young People, Study Finds

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/06/04/222245/internet-addiction-alters-brain-chemistry-in-young-people-study-finds

 

How Uganda's government under President Yoweri Museveni has increasingly used the country's biometric identity system to target opponents and consolidate power

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-06-04/uganda-yoweri-museveni-s-critics-targeted-via-biometric-id-system

 

Fidelity’s Crypto Custody Business Reports £7 Million in Losses

https://www.publish0x.com/cryptogod-1/fidelity-s-crypto-custody-business-reports-7-pounds-million-xxvnlmk

 

Australia's privacy regulator sues Medibank over an October 2022 data breach, accusing the health insurer of failing to protect the data of 9.7M customers

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-05/medibank-taken-to-federal-court-over-cyber-attack/103936664

 

Why Your Car's Key Fob Is So Hackable

https://gizmodo.com/why-your-cars-key-fob-is-so-hackable-1851455426

 

Collection agency FBCS ups data breach tally to 3.2 million people

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/collection-agency-fbcs-ups-data-breach-tally-to-32-million-people/

 

MetaMask will launch Web3 game directory powered by HyperPlay

https://venturebeat.com/games/metamask-will-launch-web3-game-directory-powered-by-hyperplay/

 

Flawed, scandalous trials tank FDA expert support for MDMA therapy

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/06/flawed-scandalous-trials-tank-fda-expert-support-for-mdma-therapy/

 

Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects

https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/05/agile_failure_rates/

 

Jury finds Boeing stole technology from electric airplane startup Zunum

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/jury-finds-boeing-stole-technology-from-electric-airplane-startup-zunum/

 

Report: E.U. Censorship Laws Mostly Suppress Legal Speech

https://reason.com/2024/06/05/report-e-u-censorship-laws-mostly-suppress-legal-speech/

 

Texas poised to get own stock exchange – with less red tape than NYSE or Nasdaq

https://www.businessinsider.com/texas-stock-exchange-nyse-nasdaq-elon-musk-tesla-exxon-mobil-2024-6

 

An American Company Enabled a North Korean Scam That Raised Money for WMDs

https://www.wired.com/story/registered-agents-north-korean-scam-wmds/

 

Beware Of Phishing Emails Prompting Execution Via Paste (CTRL+V)

https://gbhackers.com/phishing-emails-paste-execution/

 

The AT&T and Verizon outage that cut off phone calls

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/4/24171656/att-verizon-outage-dropped-calls

 

$1,700 'Spacetop' Laptop Uses AR Glasses Instead of a Display

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/06/04/spacetop-ar-glasses-laptop/

 

Database Mess Up: Aussie Food Giant Patties Foods Leaks Trove of Data

https://hackread.com/database-mess-up-aussie-food-patties-foods-data-leak/

 

Buffalo Man Pleads Guilty To Buying Stolen Data From Genesis Market

https://gbhackers.com/buffalo-man-pleads-guilty/

 

Commando Cat: A Novel Cryptojacking Attack Abusing Docker Remote API Servers

https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/24/f/commando-cat-a-novel-cryptojacking-attack-.html

 

Services disrupted as London hospitals hit by cyber-attack

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jun/04/cyber-attack-london-hospitals

 

Command Senior Chief Convicted For Setting Up Wi-Fi On US Navy Combat Ship

https://gbhackers.com/command-senior-chief-convicted/

 

Club Penguin fans breached Disney Confluence server, stole 2.5GB of data

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/club-penguin-fans-breached-disney-confluence-server-stole-25gb-of-data/

 

Tether CEO warns of new wave crypto airdrop scam emails, CoinGecko potentially affected

https://cointelegraph.com/news/tether-ceo-warns-crypto-airdrop-scam

 

Cyber attack on a municipality in Wisconsin, USA

https://www.elmgrovewi.org/DocumentCenter/View/5130/Cybersecurity-Incident---Release-060524

 

Christie's starts notifying clients of RansomHub data breach

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/christies-starts-notifying-clients-of-ransomhub-data-breach/

 

Cyber attack on a media company in Belgium

https://www.lalibre.be/culture/medias-tele/2024/06/05/la-libre-belgique-la-dh-et-la-chaine-dinformation-ln24-ont-ete-victimes-dune-cyber-attaque-Z6MTAMWSABHBJDO6IZ2YZUHYXI/

 

'Sticky Werewolf' APT Stalks Aviation Sector

https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/sticky-werewolf-apt-stalks-aviation-sector

 

Australian mining company discloses breach after BianLian leaks data

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/australian-mining-company-discloses-breach-after-bianlian-leaks-data/

 

RansomHub Actors Exploit ZeroLogon Vuln in Recent Ransomware Attacks

https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/ransomhub-actors-exploit-zerologon-vuln-in-recent-ransomware-attacks

 

CISCO ADDRESSED WEBEX FLAWS USED TO COMPROMISE GERMAN GOVERNMENT MEETINGS

https://securityaffairs.com/164173/breaking-news/cisco-webex-flaws-german-government-meetings.html

 

UNC1151 Hackers Weaponizing Excel Documents To Attack Windows Machine

https://gbhackers.com/unc1151-weaponizing-excel-attacks/

 

Public blockchains too ‘fragile’ for tokenization: Professor tells Congress

https://cointelegraph.com/news/blockchain-tokenization-cant-fix-financial-markets-professor-congress

 

CDC Says Cucumbers Likely Cause of Salmonella Outbreak in 25 States

https://gizmodo.com/cdc-cucumbers-salmonella-outbreak-pa-ny-fl-25-states-1851522201

 

Signs You’re the Victim of a SIM-Swap Attack (and What to Do Next)

https://lifehacker.com/tech/spot-a-sim-swap-attack-and-what-to-do-next

 

Apple Promises to Fix Long-Ignored Parental Control Bug After Media Spotlight

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/06/05/apple-parental-control-bug-fix/

 

Synapse bankruptcy trustee says $85 million of customer savings is missing in fintech meltdown

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/07/synapse-bankruptcy-trustee-85-million-of-customer-savings-is-missing.html

 

Frontier warns 750,000 of a data breach after extortion threats

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/frontier-warns-750-000-of-a-data-breach-after-extorted-by-ransomhub/

 

Town of Arlington, Massachusetts, lost $445,945 from high school construction to email scheme

https://www.wcvb.com/article/arlington-massachusetts-cybercrime-business-email-compromise/61039057

 

New York Times source code stolen using exposed GitHub token

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-york-times-source-code-stolen-using-exposed-github-token/

 

Attacks Surge on Check Point's Recent VPN Zero-Day Flaw

https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/attacks-surge-on-check-points-recent-vpn-zero-day-flaw

 

Sticky Werewolf Weaponizing LNK Files Group Attacking

https://gbhackers.com/sticky-werewolf-lnk-files-attacks/

 

CoinGecko confirms email provider data breach, over 23,000 phishing emails sent

https://cointelegraph.com/news/coingecko-confirms-email-provider-data-breach

 

 

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