Afraid of missing important security news during the week? We’re here to help! Every week we put together a curated list of all important security news in one place, for your reading pleasure. Enjoy!
For the less technical
- Winged microchip is smallest-ever human-made flying structure
- Hackers release data trove from Belarus in bid to overthrow Lukashenko regime
- How data brokers sell access to the backbone of the Internet
- Bitcoin.org hackers steal $17,000 in ‘double your cash’ scam
- OFAC sanctions Russian cryptocurrency OTC Suex that received over $160 million from ransomware attackers, scammers, and Darknet markets
- Illinois man convicted of federal criminal charges for operating subscription-based computer attack platforms
- Epik data breach impacts 15 million users, including non-customers
- 106 Italian mafia members arrested for SIM swapping, BEC scams, phishing
- He escaped the dark web’s biggest bust. Now he’s back
- Former NSA hacker describes being recruited for UAE spy program
For the more technical
- AMD chipset driver information disclosure vulnerability (PDF)
- Proof-on-concept exploit for CVE-2021-38647 (OMIGOD)
- iOS 15 iCloud Private Relay vulnerability identified
- New macOS zero-day bug lets attackers run commands remotely
- Remote Code Execution vulnerability in NETGEAR routers
- Autodiscovering the great leak
- If you copied any of these popular StackOverflow encryption code snippets, then you coded it wrong
- Peirates – a Kubernetes penetration tool
- Google: Manifest V2 Chrome extensions to stop working in 2023
- Evil Mass Storage + development details
- Assessment of cybersecurity of mobile devices supporting 5G technology sold in Lithuania (PDF)
- Catching the big fish: Analyzing a large-scale phishing-as-a-service operation
- Abusing smart contracts to steal $600 million: How the Poly Network hack actually happened
- Data exposure discovered at EventBuilder, the global specialists in webinar conference planning
- Conti ransomware (PDF)
- Ransomware hackers using tactics and techniques borrowed from Chinese espionage groups
- Cring ransomware group exploits ancient ColdFusion server
- REvil ransomware devs added a backdoor to cheat affiliates
- FBI held back ransomware decryption key from businesses to run operation targeting hackers
- FamousSparrow: A suspicious hotel guest
- Financially motivated actor breaks certificate parsing to avoid detection
- TinyTurla – Turla deploys new malware to keep a secret backdoor on victim machines
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