Tag: hacker
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Hackers Turn Ethereum Smart Contract Into Dead-Drop Resolver for Remus Malware
Hackers are abusing an Ethereum smart contract as a dead”‘drop resolver to dynamically steer victims’ browsers to rotating command”‘and”‘control (C2) infrastructure in a new Remus infostealer campaign that weaponizes fake cracked software lures and Turkish”‘language SEO poisoning. In this campaign, Remus no longer relies on a static C2 domain or legacy dead-drop platforms like Steam…
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Canadian Hacker Pleads Guilty to Stealing Billions of Records From 165 Cloud Customers
Connor Riley Moucka, a 26-year-old Canadian national from Kitchener, Ontario, has pleaded guilty to charges related to a large-scale cloud data theft and extortion operation that affected at least 165 organizations. This campaign resulted in the theft of billions of sensitive records, impacting an estimated 100 million individuals worldwide. Canadian Hacker Pleads Guilty According to…
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Why Post-Quantum Security Is Climbing the Enterprise Agenda
Tags: ai, attack, computer, computing, conference, container, crypto, cryptography, cybersecurity, data, google, government, hacker, Hardware, ibm, infrastructure, intelligence, risk, technology, threat, toolWhy Post-Quantum Security Is Climbing the Enterprise Agenda andrew.gertz@t“¦ Thu, 08/06/2026 – 04:56 Learn why post-quantum security is becoming an enterprise priority, how AI and quantum computing are reshaping cryptography, and how Thales Luna 8 helps organizations prepare. Data Security Key Management Encryption Key Management Bree Fowler – Journalist More About This Author > At…
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Snowflake Hacker Pleads Guilty After Breaching 165 Companies and Stealing Billions of Records
Snowflake hacker Connor Moucka pleads guilty after breaching 165 organizations, stealing billions of records, and extorting victims. Connor Riley Moucka, 26, of Kitchener, Ontario, pleaded guilty this week to a computer hacking conspiracy that compromised over 165 organizations, stole billions of customer records, and extorted multiple victims for millions of dollars. >>Connor Riley Moucka, 26,…
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Snowflake Hacker Pleads Guilty Over Breaches Affecting at Least 100 Million People
Connor Riley Moucka pleaded guilty in Seattle federal court on Wednesday to computer fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and a related conspiracy over the 2024 breaches of Snowflake customer accounts.The intrusions reached at least 165 organizations and exposed records belonging to at least 100 million people. Moucka, 26, of Kitchener, Ontario, personally took at…
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Hackers Abuse Cloud Startup Credits to Resell Claude and Gemini AI Access
Threat actors are exploiting free cloud trials and startup credit programs to build gray-market AI proxy services. These services resell discounted access to advanced AI models, including Anthropic Claude and Google Gemini, according to Okta Threat Intelligence. These services rely on fraudulent or synthetic account registrations to accumulate promotional credits offered by cloud providers. The…
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Agentic AI and cybersecurity dominate discussions at Las Vegas Hacker Summer Camp
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/agentic-ai-and-cybersecurity-dominate-discussions-at-las-vegas-hacker-summer-camp
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A Security Pro Hacked North Korean Hackers. He Found They’d Breached Hundreds of Networks Worldwide
For nearly two years, researcher Vangelis Stykas has maintained access to North Korean hackers’ servers. His work shows they pulled off intrusions in a shocking number of systems across the globe. First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/a-security-pro-hacked-north-korean-hackers-he-found-theyd-breached-hundreds-of-networks-worldwide/
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Snowflake hacker pleads guilty, faces up to 32 years in prison
Connor Moucka obtained almost $500,000 for playing a key role in one of the most widespread and damaging cyberattack sprees on record. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/connor-moucka-guilty-snowflake-attack-spree/
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Hackers run khunt post-exploitation toolkit from Oracle database
Hackers exploited a SQL injection vulnerability to install a post-exploitation toolkit directly inside an Oracle database that was used to breach a corporate network. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-run-khunt-post-exploitation-toolkit-from-oracle-database/
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Brown Health Medical Group-MA Data Breach Exposes Information of 311,000 Individuals
Brown Health Medical Group-MA breach exposed personal, medical, and financial data of over 311,000 individuals after hackers accessed its servers. Brown Health Medical Group-MA data breach exposed personal, medical, and financial data of over 311,000 individuals after hackers accessed its servers. The healthcare group identified a data security breach involving a legacy file server on…
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CISA warns of hackers exploiting Langflow, N-central, Apache Tomcat flaws
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is giving federal agencies three days to mitigate vulnerabilities in IBM Langflow, N-central, and Apache Tomcat, all actively exploited. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-warns-of-hackers-exploiting-langflow-n-central-apache-tomcat-flaws/
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Hacker greifen 120 Unternehmen über offizielle Microsoft-Dienste mit Phishing-Mails an
Check Point Research (CPR), die Sicherheitsforschungsabteilung von Check Point Software Technologies hat eine neue Phishing-Taktik von Angreifern aufgedeckt und analysiert, die sich Microsofts Infrastruktur zunutze macht und deren Vertrauenswürdigkeit ausnutzt. Vom 25. Juni bis in die zweite Juliwoche identifizierte CPR mehr als 200 Phishing-E-Mails, die sich an Nutzer in rund 120 Organisationen richteten und dabei…
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“I’m Allowed”: Hackers Use Simple Claims to Bypass AI Guardrails
Cisco Talos found hackers using simple authorization claims to bypass AI guardrails, build DDoS attack tools, steal credentials and access live camera services. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/im-allowed-hackers-use-claims-bypass-ai-guardrails/
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Cyberattacks on water systems expand to 12 states as South Dakota, Georgia announce incidents
Water utilities in at least 12 states have reported cyberattacks on their operational technology, as the scope of a campaign allegedly linked to Iranian hackers continues to grow. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/iran-cyberattacks-water-treatment
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Hackers Smuggle Post-Exploitation Toolkit Into Oracle Database Via Classic SQL Injection Flaw
A SQL injection vulnerability that many organisations might consider a decades-old, well-understood threat has been used as the entry point for a far more sophisticated attack, after threat actors were caught planting a custom-built, database-resident toolkit inside an Oracle database. Security firm Huntress said it was alerted to suspicious activity on an endpoint hosting an…
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Cyberangriff auf Ungarn: Hacker stürzt Finanzverwaltung ins IT-Chaos
Ein Angreifer hat IT-Systeme der Finanzverwaltung Ungarns infiltriert. Den Zugriff erhielt er wohl über eine seit 2017 bekannte Lücke in Oracle Weblogic. First seen on golem.de Jump to article: www.golem.de/news/cyberangriff-auf-ungarn-hacker-stuerzt-finanzverwaltung-ins-it-chaos-2608-211627.html
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Ransomware Hackers Are Hiding Malware Command Servers Inside Ethereum Smart Contracts
Ransomware operators are now abusing Ethereum smart contracts as stealthy command”‘and”‘control resolvers, with a Gentlemen ransomware affiliate using the EtherRAT backdoor to pull rotating C2 domains directly from the blockchain instead of hardcoding them in the malware. The toolkit shows a clear progression: scheduled tasks that bootstrap PowerShell, privileged account creation (“support2” with Supp0rt2@2026!). LSASS…
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TP-Link patches Omada ZTP flaws allowing hackers to breach networks
TP-Link has patched 15 vulnerabilities in the zero-touch provisioning (ZTP) mechanism of its Omada network devices that could be chained with previously disclosed flaws to achieve remote code execution (RCE). First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/tp-link-patches-omada-ztp-flaws-allowing-hackers-to-breach-networks/
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Microsoft Warns Russian Hackers Use Hotel Wi-Fi to Steal Credentials
Microsoft warns Russian hackers are exploiting hotel Wi-Fi to deliver malware, steal credentials, and compromise corporate travelers’ cloud accounts worldwide. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/cybersecurity/news-microsoft-russian-hackers-hotel-wifi/
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Sophisticated Cyberattackers Boost Productivity Using AI
But Less-Skilled Attackers Have Trouble Turning Ideas to Reality, Researchers Find Everybody seems hellbent on applying artificial intelligence tools to boost productivity, and criminal hackers appear to be no exception. But as with non-illicit use of large language models, the most sophisticated results appear to trace to the most highly skilled users wielding LLMs. First…
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Hackers steal over $130M by exploiting bug in offline hardware wallets
A security vulnerability in the cryptocurrency hardware wallet Coldcard is allowing hackers to drain the crypto from victims’ wallets. The total losses amount to more than $130 million, according to blockchain-monitoring firms. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/hackers-steal-over-130-million-by-exploiting-bug-in-offline-hardware-wallets/
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Hackers steal over $130 million by exploiting bug in offline hardware wallets
A security vulnerability in the cryptocurrency hardware wallet Coldcard is allowing hackers to drain the crypto from victims’ wallets. The total losses amount to more than $130 million, according to blockchain monitoring firms. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/hackers-steal-over-130-million-by-exploiting-bug-in-offline-hardware-wallets/
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Hackers Claim They Stole a Directory of 135,000 UK Police Contacts
A new hacking group claims it stole 135,000 records from a UK police platform, exposing contact details that could support phishing and impersonation. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/cybersecurity/news-uk-police-pnld-data-breach-exfilsquad-emea/
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Swiss IT agency hacked, 200 accounts compromised, SharePoint vulns suspected
The Federal Office for Information Technology and Communications (BIT) said specialists detected anomalies in on-premises Microsoft servers. The Swiss agency could not confirm exactly how the hackers got in. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/swiss-bit-foitt-hacked-possibly-sharepoint-vulnerabilities
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AI Notetaker Lets Hackers Spy on Government, Corporate Video Calls
A Google Firebase misconfiguration lets users of tl;dv, an AI meeting tool, query any other users’ meeting information and potentially join calls. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/application-security/ai-notetaker-spy-government-corporate-video-calls
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When Vibe Hacking Turns AI into the Junior Hacker Every Adversary Always Wanted
The cybersecurity industry has spent decades assuming that offensive capability scales with technical expertise.That assumption is starting to break.Security teams have long estimated risk by ranking attacker sophistication. Nation-state actors sat at one end. Organized criminal groups followed. Inexperienced attackers, dismissed as “script kiddies,” sat at the other end, running public First seen on thehackernews.com…
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Russian hackers abuse hotel Wi-Fi networks to steal Microsoft 365 credentials and deploy malware
Midnight Blizzard, the Russian threat actor tied to the country’s foreign intelligence service, has spent months targeting users of public Wi-Fi networks at places like … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/08/04/midnight-blizzard-hotel-wi-fi-networks-hacking/
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OctLurk-Linked Hackers Deploy BINDCLOAK Backdoor Against Middle East Governments
The published Part 2 of a two-part technical analysis exposing BINDCLOAK, a previously undocumented modular backdoor deployed against government entities in the Middle East by an East Asia-linked threat actor tracked as OctLurk. The disclosure follows Part 1, which detailed the TELESHIM backdoor and the MIXEDKEY loader used earlier in the same multi-stage intrusion chain.…
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Vereinigtes Königreich: Hacker leaken Daten von über 100.000 Polizisten
Tags: hackerEine Cybergang hat eine Polizei-Datenbank des Vereinigten Königreichs geplündert und persönliche Daten unzähliger Strafverfolger veröffentlicht. First seen on golem.de Jump to article: www.golem.de/news/vereinigtes-koenigreich-hacker-leaken-daten-von-ueber-100-000-polizisten-2608-211561.html