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New hacking forum leaks data of 478,000 RaidForums members
2023-05-30 01:55

A database for the notorious RaidForums hacking forums has been leaked online, allowing threat actors and security researchers insight into the people who frequented the forum. RaidForums was a very popular and notorious hacking and data leak forum known for hosting, leaking, and selling data stolen from breached organizations.

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2023-05-25 22:30

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18-year-old charged with hacking 60,000 DraftKings betting accounts
2023-05-18 16:59

The Department of Justice revealed today that an 18-year-old man named Joseph Garrison from Wisconsin had been charged with hacking into the accounts of around 60,000 users of the DraftKings sports betting website in November 2022. Garrison and his co-conspirators devised a method allowing buyers of the stolen accounts to withdraw all funds, instructing them to add a new payment method to the hacked accounts, deposit a nominal sum of $5 through the newly added payment method to verify its validity, and subsequently withdraw all existing funds from the victims' accounts to a separate financial account under the attackers' control.

18-year-old charged with hacking 60,000 sports betting accounts
2023-05-18 16:59

The Department of Justice revealed today that an 18-year-old man named Joseph Garrison from Wisconsin had been charged with hacking into the accounts of around 60,000 users of a fantasy sports and sports betting website in November 2022. Garrison and his co-conspirators devised a method allowing buyers of the stolen accounts to withdraw all funds, instructing them to add a new payment method to the hacked accounts, deposit a nominal sum of $5 through the newly added payment method to verify its validity, and subsequently withdraw all existing funds from the victims' accounts to a separate financial account under the attackers' control.

AI Hacking Village at DEF CON This Year
2023-05-08 15:29

At DEF CON this year, Anthropic, Google, Hugging Face, Microsoft, NVIDIA, OpenAI and Stability AI will all open up their models for attack. The DEF CON event will rely on an evaluation platform developed by Scale AI, a California company that produces training for AI applications.

Microsoft: Iranian hacking groups join Papercut attack spree
2023-05-08 14:47

Microsoft says Iranian state-backed hackers have joined the ongoing assault targeting vulnerable PaperCut MF/NG print management servers. "The PaperCut exploitation activity by Mint Sandstorm appears opportunistic, affecting organizations across sectors and geographies," the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team said.

China labels USA 'Empire of hacking' based on old Wikileaks dumps
2023-05-05 02:32

The National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center of China and local infosec outfit 360 Total Security have conducted an investigation called "The Matrix" that found the CIA conducts offensive cyber ops, and labelled the United States an "Empire of Hacking". The two orgs have been good enough to publish the first part of their work, titled Empire of Hacking: The US Central Intelligence Agency - Part I. The document doesn't offer much new info, leaning heavily on the 2017 infodump from WikiLeaks that detailed the "Vault7" trove of exploits the CIA uses to spy on computers, smart TVs, WhatsApp and just about any other device or service you might use.

Hacking the Layoff Process
2023-04-28 19:15

Bob Paddock April 28, 2023 3:32 PM. At a past company I worked at the company had its first ever mass layoff of 28 people. As we were waiting for the government paper pushers to come in, we figured out that the common denominator between us all was, that we had all used the companies health insurance sometime in the last few years.

Hacking Pickleball
2023-04-21 18:11

Some might consider these actions cheating, while the acting player would argue that there was no rule that said the action couldn't be performed. How do we address these situations, and close those loopholes? We make new rules that specifically address the loophole action.

Hacking Suicide
2023-04-14 19:06

You want to commit suicide, but it's a mortal sin: your soul goes straight to hell, forever. That will get you executed, but if you confess your sins to a priest beforehand you avoid hell.