Supply Chain Hackers Snuck Malware Into Videogames
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 21:16:22 +0000
An aggressive group of supply chain hackers strikes again, this time further upstream.
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A ‘Blockchain Bandit’ Is Guessing Private Keys and Scoring Millions
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 11:00:00 +0000
The larger lesson of an ongoing Ethereum crime spree: Be careful with who’s generating your cryptocurrency keys.
Read moreHackers Can Tell What Netflix ‘Bandersnatch’ Choices You Make
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2019 11:00:00 +0000
Researchers have shown that even though Netflix encrypts its traffic, hackers can figure out your interactive movie choices.
Read moreA Mystery Agent Is Doxing Iran’s Hackers and Dumping Their Code
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 19:00:06 +0000
Iranian intelligence seems to be getting its own taste of a Shadow Brokers-style leak of secrets.
Read moreCyberspies Hijacked the Internet Domains of Entire Countries
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 15:01:56 +0000
A mysterious new group called Sea Turtle targeted 40 organizations in a DNS hijacking spree.
Read moreMicrosoft Email Hack Shows the Lurking Danger of Customer Support
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 21:33:26 +0000
Hackers spent months with full access to Outlook, Hotmail, and MSN email accounts—and got in through Microsoft’s customer support platform.
Read moreJulian Assange Arrested, *Jeopardy!* Game Theory, and More News
Credit to Author: Lydia Horne| Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 00:10:33 +0000
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Read moreA Peek Into the Toolkit of the Dangerous ‘Triton’ Hackers
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 04:01:00 +0000
Security firm FireEye is naming a collection of tools it says might help identify more of the digital saboteurs’ intrusions.
Read moreMysterious Hackers Hid Their Swiss Army Spyware for 5 Years
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 03:30:00 +0000
The TajMahal spyware includes more than 80 distinct spy tools, and went undetected for five years.
Read moreA New Breed of ATM Hackers Gets in Through a Bank’s Network
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 02:30:00 +0000
Innovations in digital payment system attack methods mean the rash of heists isn’t over.
Read more‘Exodus’ Spyware Posed as a Legit iOS App
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2019 19:49:52 +0000
Researchers had already found a spyware app called Exodus plaguing Android. Now it has shown up on iPhones.
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