During its operation from 2011 until 2013, Silk Road was used by thousands of drug dealers to distribute narcotics and other illicit goods and services to more than 100,000 buyers and to launder hundreds of millions from those unlawful transactions.
A British Crown Court on Tuesday lifted a reporting restriction, allowing the naming of teenager Arion Kurtaj who is accused of hacking Uber, Revolut, and video game developer Rockstar Games in a short period of time last September.
The total amount of ransom paid since 2020 is estimated to be at least $2 billion, and this has both motivated and enabled the groups who are profiting from this activity to become more professional.
“The attack consists of Python code that loads an XMRig Miner directly into memory using memfd, a known Linux fileless technique,” security researchers Avigayil Mechtinger, Oren Ofer, and Itamar Gilad said.
At his first Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday, Air Force Lt. Gen. Timothy Haugh, Cyber Command’s deputy chief, will explain how he plans to fill the shoes of Paul Nakasone.
The growing list of MOVEit cyberattack victims has grown. Sixty-two clients of Big Four accounting firm Ernst & Young now appear on the Clop ransomware group’s data leak sites.
In Group-IB’s new Digital Risk Trends 2023 report, security researchers have recorded a 62% year-on-year (YoY) increase in phishing websites and a 304% surge in scam pages in 2022.
The vulnerability impacts FortiOS and FortiProxy versions 7.2.x and 7.0.x and was resolved in FortiOS versions 7.4.0, 7.2.4, and 7.0.11, and FortiProxy versions 7.2.3 and 7.0.10.
According to StormWall’s Q2 2023 Report, the United States, India, and China remain the most heavily targeted countries, bearing the brunt of the escalating DDoS attacks.
German enterprise software maker SAP on Tuesday announced the release of 16 new security notes as part of its July 2023 Security Patch Day. In addition, updates were announced for two previously released notes.