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Ukrainian hacker jailed for selling account credentials on the dark web

13 May 2022Ukrainian hacker jailed for selling account credentials on the dark webBotnet operator had thousands of hacked credential listings, according to the DoJ

Bug Bounty Radar

The latest bug bounty programs for April 202201 April 2022Bug Bounty RadarThe latest bug bounty programs for April 2022

Escalating tensions

EU countries offer cyber-defense assistance to Ukraine23 February 2022Escalating tensionsEU countries offer cyber-defense assistance to Ukraine

Zimbra hotfix

Active abuse of XSS vulnerability prompts action from business email platform 07 February 2022Zimbra hotfixActive abuse of XSS vulnerability prompts action from business email platform

Celebrations over REvil ransomware arrests may be premature

17 January 2022Celebrations over REvil ransomware arrests may be premature‘It’s not clear whether the developers or lower-level criminals were arrested’, security experts tell The Daily Swig

Belarus border data breach

Hackers claim to have accessed full database of all crossings in and out of country over past 15 years17 November 2021Belarus border data breachHackers claim to have accessed full database of all crossings in and out of country over past 15 years

Two men charged with deploying REvil ransomware attacks

09 November 2021Two men charged with deploying REvil ransomware attacksIndividuals face up to 145 years in prison if convicted

Arrests made over European ATM ‘jackpotting’ spree

29 July 2021Arrests made over European ATM ‘jackpotting’ spreeAttacks combined physical and digital exploits to land criminals $273,000

Eight arrests made as Eurojust dismantles €2m phishing fraud

12 July 2021Eight arrests made as Eurojust dismantles €2m phishing fraud

CD Projekt Red breach

Games developer releases more details about cyber-attack11 June 2021CD Projekt Red breachGames developer releases more details about cyber-attack

EU:Africa hackathon

Innovative solutions sought to solve ‘post-crisis’ Covid-19 challenges07 December 2020EU:Africa hackathon Innovative solutions sought to solve ‘post-crisis’ Covid-19 challenges

Mind the gap

CERT report reveals security holes across Polish education sector02 December 2020Mind the gapCERT report reveals security holes across Polish education sector

Want to know a secret?

Experiment reveals differences in secret leak detection on Git repos16 November 2020Want to know a secret?Experiment reveals differences in secret leak detection on Git repos

EU funding initiative aims to boost cybersecurity sector

28 September 2020EU funding initiative aims to boost cybersecurity sector€10.5 million has been allocated as part of eurozone infrastructure development program

GDPaaargh!

Polish university fined $13,000 for breach involving student data17 September 2020GDPaaargh!Polish university fined $13,000 for breach involving student data

Config loophole triggers XSS in Sanitize Ruby Gem

18 June 2020Config loophole triggers XSS in Sanitize Ruby GemThe vulnerability, which could also lead to other browser-side exploits, has now been fixed

Authorities dismantle InfinityBlack cybercrime gang

05 May 2020Authorities dismantle InfinityBlack cybercrime gangCross-border hacking group turned login credentials into cold, hard cash

Inside J-CAT – Europol’s Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce

J-CAT chairman Jaap van Oss on the challenges facing international efforts to combat cybercrime13 February 2020Inside J-CAT – Europol’s Joint Cybercrime Action TaskforceJ-CAT chairman Jaap van Oss on the challenges facing international efforts to combat cybercrime

Heap overflow: F-Secure issues fix for Internet Gatekeeper vulnerability

05 February 2020Heap overflow: F-Secure issues fix for Internet Gatekeeper vulnerabilityFlaw in antivirus web server creates overflow condition, leading to RCE

HITCON 2019

Cash prizes given to top teams competing in Taiwanese CTF 16 December 2019HITCON 2019Cash prizes given to top teams competing in Taiwanese CTF

Imminent Monitor spyware operation undone by OpSec mistakes

03 December 2019Imminent Monitor spyware operation undone by OpSec mistakesRAT trap

Polish hacking team takes CTF championship title

25 November 2019Polish hacking team takes CTF championship titleRaimund Genes Cup showcases next generation of security pros

Exploit for Kibana RCE flaw released on GitHub

31 October 2019Exploit for Kibana RCE flaw released on GitHubA researcher has demonstrated working exploit code to trigger RCE in the Kibana plugin for Elasticsearch

Danish hearing aid firm slashes forecasts after breach

30 September 2019Danish hearing aid firm slashes forecasts after breachMystery attack blights Demant’s financials

Wikipedia thrown offline by ‘bad faith actors’

DDoS attack blamed for taking down online encyclopedia10 September 2019Wikipedia thrown offline by ‘bad faith actors’DDoS attack blamed for taking down online encyclopedia

‘Attitude is more important than your current skill set’

Lawrence Munro on active threat hunting and what it takes to become a red teamer19 March 2019‘Attitude is more important than your current skill set’Lawrence Munro on active threat hunting and what it takes to become a red teamer

Sleeper cell

GreyEnergy threat actors go to great lengths to hide malware campaign04 December 2018Sleeper cellGreyEnergy threat actors go to great lengths to hide malware campaign

Legal storm: Cross-border data sharing becomes law

The Cloud now has no borders15 May 2018Legal storm: Cross-border data sharing becomes lawThe Cloud now has no borders

Suspected ransomware mastermind arrested in Poland

Polish national now faces 181 charges in court19 March 2018Suspected ransomware mastermind arrested in PolandPolish national now faces 181 charges in court