Bite Sized Cyber Crime

Water is a critical infrastructure, and lately multiple water plants across the US are under attack, starting in Minnesota. So far drinking water is safe, but it does bring into question the security of our basic utilities.

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Vatican app ClickToPray has had an unpatched IDOR sitting in its website that could allow for scraping the data of every single user.

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AI email filters may be worse at detecting old tricks than traditional spam filters as old tactics are being used against old agents to allow in malicious or spam emails.

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Randomness is not as random as it seems, and this can cause problems, especially when your money relies on it. Some crypto wallets generated predictable random passphrases that can be used to access accounts and steal funds.

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The skill ceiling to become a real ransomware threat actor may have been lowered considerably, as JadePuffer performed an attack as an AI agent with no human intervention, being able to reason its way through problems encountered when deploying ransomware to a target.

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Shopify has a dashboard that integrates all your web order activity, but this has allowed for a new type of phishing scheme much sneakier than emails. Fake receipts with fake support phone numbers have been popping up in many Shop dashboards.

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Klue allows you to get the upperhand on your competitors by using their public data and your internal information to create quick sales talking points, however it may have also leaked your private data via a legacy account that was never deleted.

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Fable 5 was based on Mythos, a model so dangerous it could not be released to the general public. But that release did not exactly go smoothly, was complains from customers that is too expensive and restrictive and later an order to shut it down.

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AI support bots can help a lot in basic issues, but they can also cause a massive security incident if they are not well understood. Recently Meta AI's account recovery workflow was exploited by hackers to hijack many high profile accounts.

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Charter Communications, a major US telecom provider refused to pay a ransom, and so their data paid the price after being leaked on the dark web.

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GitHub is the most popular code repository site, but after an employee account was compromised their source code was stolen and is now up for sale on the dark web, with threats to leak it if there is not a buyer.

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Canvas is a massive education platform used globally in education, and they just suffered a hack that has left both students ans educators scrambling during one of their busiest weeks of the year, finals.

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Ransomware groups don't often target each other, but when they do it gets really interesting. Not only can defenders learn a lot about how these groups operate, but it can really boost the reputation of these groups. The only issue is your victim will most likely strike back hard.

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Ransomware negotiators are supposed to give you the best price to get your files back, but what if they are actually conspiring to get you the worst one? One such man plead guilty to this and revealed just how he worked with the BlackCat group to con his own clients.

DDoS attacks are common and annoying, not allowing you to visit your favorite app or more dangerously, not allowing you to use important government provided services you may need. Operation PowerOFF claims another criminal enterprise when they arrested 4 people and seized 53 servers involved in a massive DDoS as a service ring.

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Anthropic's latest model is supposedly better than all but the most elite level of hackers in discovering and exploiting vulnerabilities, but where does that leave us today and where will we go in the future. Fortunately, at least not any time soon, I don't see the job of the security engineer being stolen by robots.

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Decentralized finance, when not done correctly, often lends itself to massive crypto heists that result in millions being stolen and the story of the Drift protocol which operates on the Solana blockchain is no different. Attackers didn't actually need a vulnerability in code to pull off this heist, however, just two separate people who signed off on a malicious transaction.

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FireFox has been a favorite browser among nerds for a while, especially for its privacy capabilities and it seems to be leaning into it even more by implementing a free browser based VPN for testing in its latest update with a 50GB a month data limit.

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Stryker is a med tech giant, but they have fallen rather hard after a politically motivated ransomware attack wiped thousands of devices after stealing over 50 terabytes of data.

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