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2024-10-21 15:08

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FBI arrest Alabama man suspected of hacking SEC's X account
2024-10-17 18:21

An Alabama man was arrested today by the FBI for his suspected role in hacking the SEC's X account to make a fake announcement that Bitcoin ETFs were approved. [...]

GhostStrike: Open-source tool for ethical hacking
2024-10-17 04:30

GhostStrike is an open-source, advanced cybersecurity tool tailored for ethical hacking and Red Team operations. It incorporates cutting-edge techniques, including process hollowing, to stealthily...

China Accuses U.S. of Fabricating Volt Typhoon to Hide Its Own Hacking Campaigns
2024-10-15 08:03

China's National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center (CVERC) has doubled down on claims that the threat actor known as the Volt Typhoon is a fabrication of the U.S. and its allies. The...

Cisco investigates breach after stolen data for sale on hacking forum
2024-10-15 02:25

Cisco has confirmed to BleepingComputer that it is investigating recent claims that it suffered a breach after a threat actor began selling allegedly stolen data on a hacking forum. [...]

China Possibly Hacking US “Lawful Access” Backdoor
2024-10-08 11:00

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Chinese hackers (Salt Typhoon) penetrated the networks of US broadband providers, and might have accessed the backdoors that the federal government uses...

Alert: Over 700,000 DrayTek Routers Exposed to Hacking via 14 New Vulnerabilities
2024-10-02 13:00

A little over a dozen new security vulnerabilities have been discovered in residential and enterprise routers manufactured by DrayTek that could be exploited to take over susceptible devices....

Andariel Hacking Group Shifts Focus to Financial Attacks on U.S. Organizations
2024-10-02 10:00

Three different organizations in the U.S. were targeted in August 2024 by a North Korean state-sponsored threat actor called Andariel as part of a likely financially motivated attack. "While the...

Hacking ChatGPT by Planting False Memories into Its Data
2024-10-01 11:07

This vulnerability hacks a feature that allows ChatGPT to have long-term memory, where it uses information from past conversations to inform future conversations with that same user. A researcher...

Hacking the “Bike Angels” System for Moving Bikeshares
2024-09-23 15:46

I always like a good hack. And this story delivers. Basically, the New York City bikeshare program has a system to reward people who move bicycles from full stations to empty ones. By deliberately...