The Multi-Million Pound Manchester United Hack
Earlier this year I wrote a blog post about the Manchester City Billion Pound Hack, which explored cyberattacks within elite football. Now it is the turn of City big rivals Manchester United, ...
Selling It: Crypto Edition
Here is a crypto version of “Selling It,” a long-running back-page column in the magazine Consumer Reports. For those unsure of the acronyms, “SHA-256” stands for a version of the Secure Hash ...
President Trump’s Campaign Website Defaced by Cryptocurrency Scammers
Unknown individuals temporarily defaced the official campaign website of President Donald Trump with a cryptocurrency scam. Twitter user Gabriel Lorenzo Greschler was among the first to spot the defacement, which is believed ...
LemonDuck Crypto-Miner – a KingMiner Successor
Crypto-miners have been around for several years, in all forms and shapes, and distributed via various attack avenues. Increased competition from other cyber-criminal groups and various defenses set in place at the ...
Bitcoin Exchange Owner Convicted for Role in Web Auction Fraud Scheme
A federal jury convicted the owner of a bitcoin exchange for his role in a multi-million dollar scheme involving online auction fraud. On September 28, a federal jury in Frankfort, Kentucky found ...
Hackers Steal $150 Million from Asian Cryptocurrency Exchange
KuCoin, a Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange, has disclosed a security incident that resulted in the unauthorized transfer of roughly $150 million in digital assets. In a notice published last week, KuCoin notified clients that it ...
U.S. Treasury Sanctions Russian Hackers for Stealing $17 Million in Crypto Cash
This week, U.S. authorities sanctioned two Russian nationals for defrauding several cryptocurrency exchanges of a combined $17 million. The duo, who had several other accomplices, used phishing schemes to meet their goals, ...
Hackers pumped and dumped GAS cryptocurrency for $16.8 million, alleges US DOJ
US authorities have charged two Russian men with allegedly defrauding cryptocurrency exchanges and their customers out of at least $16.8 million. The men – Danil “Cronuswar” Potekhin, 25, and 35-year-old Dmitrii Karasavidi, ...
Eterbase Exchange Hacked: Hackers Stole $5.4 Mn
Eterbase Exchange, a popular Slovakian cryptocurrency exchange platform was hacked by threat actors, on September 8, 2020. Reportedly, $5.4 MillionContinue reading The post Eterbase Exchange Hacked: Hackers Stole $5.4 Mn appeared first ...
Are you listening to your logs? Part 3: High disk usage
In the previous blog of this series, we saw how server crashes can be avoided by detecting low disk space in time using logs. In this blog, we’ll talk about another server metric, disk ...
