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Domain registrar Namecheap had their email account breached Sunday night, causing a flood of MetaMask and DHL phishing emails that attempted to steal recipients' personal information and cryptocurrency wallets. The phishing campaigns started around 4:30 PM ET and originated from SendGrid, an email platform used historically by Namecheap to send renewal notices and marketing emails.

Popular social media site Reddit - "Orange Usenet with ads", as we've somewhat ungraciously heard it described - is the latest well-known web property to suffer a data breach in which its own source code was stolen. Reddit systems were hacked as a result of a sophisticated and highly-targeted phishing attack.

Exactly the same when you try and use a password you say, "I want to copy that password and use it." You have to put in a master password to get access to your passwords, but you don't have to put in the master password to get access to the configuration file to get access to the passwords.

A top US cyber diplomat said his Twitter account was compromised over the weekend. Nate Fick, the inaugural US ambassador at large for Cyberspace and Digital Policy, on Saturday announced the hack of his personal account with - of course - a tweet.

The Dutch police announced on Friday that they dismantled the Exclu encrypted communications platform after hacking into the service to monitor the activities of criminal organizations. In the Netherlands alone, the police searched 22 locations and arrested 11 individuals believed to be connected with the Exclu platform.

For the most part, this week has been relatively quiet regarding ransomware attacks and researcher - that is, until the FBI announced the disruption of the Hive ransomware operation. Hive ransomware launched in June 2021 and quickly became one of the most active and prominent ransomware operations.

Early in his career, Kevin Mitnick successfully hacked California law. The setup is that he just discovered that there's warrant for his arrest by the California Youth Authority, and he's trying to figure out if there's any way out of it.

CISA, the NSA, and MS-ISAC warned today in a joint advisory that attackers are increasingly using legitimate remote monitoring and management software for malicious purposes. More worryingly, CISA discovered malicious activity within the networks of multiple federal civilian executive branch agencies using the EINSTEIN intrusion detection system after the release of a Silent Push report in mid-October 2022.

A massive campaign has infected over 4,500 WordPress websites as part of a long-running operation that's been believed to be active since at least 2017. According to GoDaddy-owned Sucuri, the infections involve the injection of obfuscated JavaScript hosted on a malicious domain named "Track[.]violetlovelines[.]com" that's designed to redirect visitors to unwanted sites.

Riot Games, the video game developer and publisher behind League of Legends and Valorant, says it will delay game patches after its development environment was compromised last week. Riot Games also added that the breach directly impacted its ability to publish patches for its games.