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Attention gamers! Motherboard maker MSI admits to breach, issues “rogue firmware” alert
Stealing private keys is like getting hold of a medieval monarch’s personal signet ring… you get to put an official seal on treasonous material.
Ferrari data breach: Client data exposed
Italian luxury sports car maker Ferrari has suffered a data breach and has confirmed on Monday that it “was recently contacted by a threat actor with a ransom demand related to certain client contact details,” but that it won’t be pay…
S3 Ep124: When so-called security apps go rogue [Audio + Text]
Rogue software packages. Rogue “sysadmins”. Rogue keyloggers. Rogue authenticators. Rogue ROGUES!
Dutch Police arrests 3 men involved in a massive extortion scheme. One of them is an ethical hacker
The Dutch police arrested three individuals as a result of an investigation into computer trespass, data theft, extortion, extortion, and money laundering. The Dutch police announced the arrest of three men as the result of an extensive investigation into computer trespass, data theft, extortion, extortion, and money laundering The suspects were arrested by the Amsterdam […]
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Jordan Got Scammed Selling AirPod Knockoffs Online
A teenage entrepreneur found himself in the crosshairs of a perfectly pleasant extortionist.
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Finnish psychotherapy extortion suspect arrested in France
Company transcribed ultra-personal conversations, didn’t secure them. Criminal stole them, then extorted thousands of vulnerable patients.
Ransomware Payments Are Down
Chainalysis reports that worldwide ransomware payments were down in 2022.
Ransomware attackers extorted at least $456.8 million from victims in 2022, down from $765.6 million the year before.
As always, we have to caveat these findings by noting that the true totals are much higher, as there are cryptocurrency addresses controlled by ransomware attackers that have yet to be identified on the blockchain and incorporated into our data. When we published last year’s version of this report, for example, we had only identified $602 million in ransomware payments in 2021…
Riot Games breached: How did it happen?
The hackers who breached Riot Games last week are asking for $10 million not to leak the stolen source code for the company’s popular League of Legends online game. The company has also confirmed that source code for TFT (Teamfight Tactics) and a…