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Twitter on Wednesday said that its investigation found "No evidence" that users' data sold online was obtained by exploiting any security vulnerabilities in its systems. "Based on information and intel analyzed to investigate the issue, there is no evidence that the data being sold online was obtained by exploiting a vulnerability of Twitter systems," the company said in a statement.
The Polish government is warning of a spike in cyberattacks from Russia-linked hackers, including the state-sponsored hacking group known as GhostWriter. The Polish believe Russian hackers target their country due to the continued support they have provided Ukraine in the ongoing military conflict with Russia.
Two men have been convicted of hacking the taxi dispatch system at the JFK airport. This enabled them to reorder the taxis on the list; they charged taxi drivers $10 to cut the line.
While employees are preparing for some rest and relaxation, hackers are gearing up for their busy season. The holiday season is when hackers are the most active.
Phishing campaigns involving the Qakbot malware are using Scalable Vector Graphics images embedded in HTML email attachments. The new distribution method was spotted by Cisco Talos, which said it identified fraudulent email messages featuring HTML attachments with encoded SVG images that incorporate HTML script tags.
Interesting discussion of vulnerabilities and exploits against Boston’s CharlieCard.
This article talks about public land in the US that is completely surrounded by private land, which in some cases makes it inaccessible to the public. Ever since the Westward Expansion, much of the Western United States has been divided into alternating squares of public and private land.
Four men suspected of hacking into US networks to steal employee data for identity theft and the filing of fraudulent US tax returns have been arrested in London, UK, and Malmo, Sweden, at the request of the U.S. law enforcement authorities. The suspects identified in four recently unsealed U.S. indictments are Akinola Taylor, Olayemi Adafin, Olakunle Oyebanjo, and Kazeem Olanrewaju Runsewe.
The Department of Homeland Security Cyber Safety Review Board will review attacks linked to an extortion gang known as Lapsus$, which breached multiple high-profile companies in recent incidents. As announced on Friday, the goal behind CSRB's review of the gang's hacking activities is to provide advice on defending against Lapsus$ attacks.
Google Cloud last week disclosed that it identified 34 different hacked release versions of the Cobalt Strike tool in the wild, the earliest of which shipped in November 2012. The versions, spanning 1.44 to 4.7, add up to a total of 275 unique JAR files, according to findings from the Google Cloud Threat Intelligence team.