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The administrator behind the notorious BreachForums hacking forum has been arrested again for breaking pretrial release conditions, including using an unmonitored computer and a VPN. The BreachForums admin, Conor Fitzpatrick, was arrested on March 15th, when he openly admitted without a lawyer present that he was a threat actor known as Pompourin, who was the admin of the defunct BreachForums hacking forum. Fitzpatrick was released one day later on a $300,000 bond and under various pretrial conditions, including not visiting the BreachForums website or having contact with any BreachForums users or co-conspirators unless supervised by counsel.
Security researchers are detecting hundreds of IP addresses on a daily basis that scan or attempt to exploit Apache RocketMQ services vulnerable to a remote command execution flaw identified as CVE-2023-33246 and CVE-2023-37582. Apache released a fix that was incomplete for the NameServer component in RocketMQ and continued to affect versions 5.1 and older of the distributed messaging and streaming platform.
The Twitter/X account of blockchain security firm CertiK was hijacked today to redirect the company's more than 343,000 followers to a malicious website pushing a cryptocurrency wallet drainer. CertiK's gold-verified X account was compromised in a social engineering attack by a threat actor using another hacked account described by the company as "Associated with a well-known media."
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new Apple macOS backdoor called SpectralBlur that overlaps with a known malware family that has been attributed to North Korean threat actors....
The Memorial University of Newfoundland continues to deal with the effects of a cyberattack that occurred in late December and postponed the start of classes in one campus. MUN is the largest public university in Atlantic Canada, with an academic and administrative staff of 3,800, and over 19,000 students from 100 countries.
The cybercriminal behind BreachForums was this week arrested for violating the terms of his pretrial release and will now be held in custody until his sentencing hearing. Fitzpatrick's sentencing hearing was originally scheduled for November 17, 2023, but was pushed back at the request [PDF] of his legal representatives after a psycho-sexual expert said they were unable to complete their evaluation of Fitzpatrick in time for the hearing due to a large workload. It has now been moved to January 19 [PDF].
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A crypto wallet service co-founder shares with the world his agony after losing $125,000 to a crypto scam. Bill Lou, co-founder of Nest Wallet, a cryptocurrency wallet startup, has been left feeling "Devastated" after being scammed by what appeared to be a crypto giveaway website to him at the time.
Shor's algorithm has the potential to factor large numbers faster than otherwise possible, which-if the run times are actually feasible-could break both the RSA and Diffie-Hellman public-key algorithms. The number of elementary logical steps in the quantum part of Regev's algorithm is proportional to n1.5 when factoring an n-bit number, rather than n2 as in Shor's algorithm.
Picture this: you stumble upon a concealed secret within your company's source code. Instantly, a wave of panic hits as you grasp the possible consequences. This one hidden secret has the power to...