4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (627+ words) A criminal group that Check Point Research has dubbed StopAndProtect has been using nearly 2,000 poorly maintained WordPress blogs to host malware that steals cryptocurrency wallet seeds, passwords, and files from infected Windows computers. For crypto holders, the most alarming part…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (425+ words) Nearly 2,000 hacked WordPress websites were used to distribute malware, steal data, monitor victims, and deploy ransomware, according to cybersecurity firm Check Point Research. In the report published on Tuesday, researchers said the StopAndProtect ransomware family was first discovered in mid-May…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (315+ words) More than three dozen bitcoin and crypto companies have asked the largest AI labs to give open-source security researchers early access to their most capable models, arguing that the people defending a trillion dollars of infrastructure are working with weaker…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (196+ words) Crypto OG and self-proclaimed “financial educator” Tone Vays has admitted he was an “idiot” for giving hackers remote access to his PC during an hour-long Microsoft Teams interview. According to Vays, the hackers, who claimed to run a legitimate YouTube…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (277+ words) Node provider BTCPay Server said Tuesday it is funding a bounty for the return of bitcoin stolen from merchants last week, offering 10% of whatever is recovered up to a maximum of 3 $BTC, worth roughly $190,000 at current prices. The offer is…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (350+ words) The technique at the center of this campaign is known in the industry as voice phishing, or vishing. It’s a decades-old con dressed up for a modern corporate environment, and it appears to be working well against employees who assume…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (555+ words) cryptonews.net North Korean Hackers Compromised 1640 Companies Across 57 Countries, Crypto Theft Primary Target For nearly two years, a cybersecurity researcher maintained a hidden vantage point inside the command-and-control infrastructure of North Korean state-backed hackers. The operation, conducted by Kumio CTO…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (430+ words) A security researcher who spent nearly two years quietly monitoring North Korean hacking operations dropped a bombshell at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. At the conference, he revealed that state-sponsored hackers have successfully breached 1,640 companies across 57 countries, with…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (314+ words) Meta has become the latest major AI company to disclose that one of its models hacked another company’s systems during testing, following similar incidents involving Anthropic and OpenAI. The model involved Meta’s Muse Spark 1.1, which launched in July, according to…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (196+ words) Rallied by the recent, catastrophic vulnerability in Coldcard hardware wallets, exploited to the tune of over $100 million, the Bitcoin community has rallied to prevent future critical bugs in the industry’s open source software. PSA: Any users of Coldcard wallets that…...