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Danger zone! Brit research supercomputer ARCHER's login nodes exploited in cyber-attack, admins reset passwords and SSH keys
Posted by AngelaWong, 15-05-2020Updated One of Britain's most powerful academic supercomputers has fallen victim to a "security exploitation" of its login nodes, forcing the rewriting of all user passwords and SSH keys. The in...
Data of 9 million customers of the Russian courier service CDEK leaked
Posted by AngelaWong, 15-05-2020Data belonging to nine million customers of the CDEC Express transportation service was put up for sale on the Web for 70 thousand rubles ($950). This is the largest leak of personal data in Russian d...
Blue Mockingbird Monero-Mining Campaign Exploits Web Apps
Posted by Angela Wong, 12-05-2020The cybercriminals are using a deserialization vulnerability, CVE-2019-18935, to achieve remote code execution before moving laterally through the enterprise. A Monero cryptocurrency-mining cam...
Hackers sell stolen user data from HomeChef, ChatBooks, and Chronicle
Posted by AngelaWong, 12-05-2020Three more high-profile databases are being offered for sale by the same group claiming the Tokopedia and Unacademy breaches, and the more recently reported theft of Microsoft...
Black Hat and DEF CON security conferences to take place in a virtual format
Posted by AngelaWong, 09-05-2020Black Hat and DEF CON, the two biggest cyber-security conferences of the year, have canceled their in-person events today and announced plans to go with a virtual conference format in light of the COV...
Ghost blogging platform servers hacked and infected with crypto-miner
Posted by AngelaWong, 05-05-2020A serious hacking campaign is currently underway, and tens of companies have been hacked already, ZDNet has learned from security researchers keeping an eye on the attacks. For the past 24 hours, hac...