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Kinsing Hacker Group Exploits More Flaws, Expands Cryptojacking Botnet

The Kinsing hacker group, or H2Miner, has been orchestrating illicit cryptocurrency mining campaigns since 2019 and poses a persistent security threat. The group continuously evolves its toolkit by integrating newly disclosed vulnerabilities to expan...
May 19, 2024
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Gomir Linux Backdoor Deployed by Kimsuky APT in South Korean Cyberattacks

The Kimsuky APT group, reportedly linked to North Korea...
May 19, 2024
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400k Linux Servers Hacked in Massive Cryptocurrency-Mining Botnet

As cybersecurity practitioners, we are no strangers to ...
May 15, 2024
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Oxfam suffers security breach

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Charity group, Oxfam, was hit by a security attack yesterday in which the email details of 300 customers were downloaded. A spokeswoman for the group explained a friendly hack was suspected. The organisation is just the latest in a series of . . .

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Protesting Hacker to Walk Free

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A hacker-turned-activist arrested during the Republican National Convention last week has been released from jail. A Philadelphia judge reduced bail for "ShapeShifter" from $500,000 to $100,000 during a hearing Tuesday afternoon, clearing the way for the staff member of hacker-zine 2600 . . .

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Don't hire DefCon hackers

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From all over the world, they make the annual pilgrimage to Las Vegas. They have names such as Mudge, Null and Dark Tangent. Tattooed, pierced, tie-dyed and ready to brag, they wear motorcycle boots, leather and even kilts in the hot July desert sun.. . .

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The Lawyer Hackers Call

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Say your day begins with a raid on your home or office by FBI agents. As they cart away your computer and everything connected to it, they tell you that you're a suspect in a computer hacking crime.. . .

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A hacker crackdown?

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As the long arm of the law reaches Napster and its lookalikes, programmers could be held responsible for what others do with their code. ... Shawn C. Reimerdes awoke on July 26, confident that his own fate had nothing to do . . .

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Step inside the world of hacking

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The world of computer hackers is a constant cat-and-mouse game between "white hats" and "black hats." Some white hats use "honeypots" to learn about their enemy. Honeypots look like normal Web servers to a black hat, but they are really traps . . .

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Script kiddies fell Kuro5hin

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Vandals have forced one of the premier open source salons to shut up shop. Kuro5hin is temporarily out of action while its volunteer management finds a way of coping with a variety of denial of service attacks sustained by the . . .

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Wanna know how BT.com was hacked?

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Last week, we were contacted by a reader who claimed to have taken bt.com, btinternet.com and gameplay.com offline through a denial of service attack. We checked it out and he wasn't lying. The anonymous person went to great length as to . . .

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Grey-hat hacking

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Enterprises hiring reformed crackers to expose their soft underbellies will only add to the more than $2.6 trillion lost worldwide annually because of security intrusions, warns professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. That's trillion -with a "T". The shift from business-to-consumer (B2C) to . . .

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Hackers stumble toward legitimacy

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Controlled chaos broke out at Hope 2000, a gathering loosely defined as a "hacker convention." The meeting was a social stew consisting of thousands of geeks, social cast offs, media, law enforcement, digital underground celebrities, used-to-be's and wannabes, all tossed into . . .

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UK security breach exposes 7000 customers

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In what has been described as a gross breach of consumer confidence, consumer watchdogs condemned lax security at Powergen Wednesday, for exposing the credit details of over 7,000 customers on its Web site. It is potentially one of the biggest online . . .

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Teen Hacking Idol Hits Big Apple

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Most 16-year-olds spend their summers vacationing at camp or planning their next beer-tinged revelry. Not so Jon Johansen. The Norwegian teen hacker may testify Thursday in a landmark trial over the DVD-descrambling program he wrote, which Hollywood hopes to ban from . . .

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