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The X account belonging to the Securities and Exchange Commission was hacked on Tuesday, allowing a fake announcement to be posted to the web concerning a much-awaited happening in the crypto world: the first Bitcoin ETFs. The announcement claimed the ETFs had been approved but, as it turns out, that’s not true. When it became apparent that the announcement was, indeed, fake, all hell broke loose in the web3 community.He Tossed His Bitcoin, Now He Wants It BackOn X, the tenor of the conversation among crypto denizens was…

Generative AI can be used by attackers, but security professionals shouldn't lose sleep over it, according to a Google Cloud threat intelligence analyst. Find out why. Google Cloud’s team recently spoke about the most notable cybersecurity threats of 2023 — multi-faceted extortion and zero-day exploitation — and predicted more zero-day attacks in 2024, during two public, virtual sessions. Plus, Google predicts that both attackers and defenders will continue to use generative AI. However, generative AI…

Last week, it was reported that a North Korean hacking group breached US-based enterprise software company JumpCloud and then used it as a jump pad to further breach into an unidentified number of cryptocurrency companies with a motive to steal money. Security researchers have now listed the reason why they are confident that it was the North Korean hackers behind the intrusion.Researchers said that the hackers made a mistake while they illegally entered the systems. According to Mandiant, a cybersecurity firm and a…

Andy Greenberg / Wired: Mandiant: Russian cyberespionage group Turla piggybacked on other hackers' decade-old malware that spread via USB drives to stealthily access victim networks — The infamous, FSB-connected Turla group took over other hackers' servers, exploiting their USB drive malware for targeted espionage. Andy Greenberg / Wired: Mandiant: Russian cyberespionage group Turla piggybacked on other hackers' decade-old malware that spread via USB drives to stealthily access victim…

Photo: ViChizh (Shutterstock)Cybercriminals with ties to the Chinese government have stolen tens of millions of dollars in U.S. covid relief benefits, NBC reports.APT41, a well-known threat actor, is said to have used various scams to siphon at least $20 million in relief benefits from state unemployment funds and Small Business Administration loans. That news comes from sources at the Secret Service, which has been investigating online fraud connected to covid relief programs. NBC calls this the “first instance of…

Photo: Leon Neal (Getty Images)If you were planning on storing your precious codes in LastPass, the freemium password manager, my personal advice to you would be: maybe think again on that one. And if you do use it, maybe consider an alternative. Why? Well, the password manager just got hacked. Again. That makes twice six months. Not great for a company that’s supposed to keep your digital keys secure! In a blog post published Wednesday, LastPass admitted that, during a recent incident, a hacker was able to access…

Photo: David McNew (Getty Images)A rash of cyberattacks targeted over a dozen major U.S. air travel websites on Monday, including those of several largeairports. Security experts believe that the incident, which downed multiple sites but failed to meddle in any operational capacity with air travel, is the work of a pro-Russian hacker group charmingly known as “Killnet.”Denial-of-service attacks—a kind of basic cyberattack that overwhelms and crashes a site using inflated web traffic—were carried out against at least 13…

Google has completed the $5.4 billion acquisition of cyber-security firm Mandiant, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian announced.Mandiant will join Google Cloud to help organisations improve their threat, incident and exposure management.Read Also"We will retain the Mandiant brand and continue Mandiant's mission to make every organisation secure from cyber threats and confident in their readiness," Kurian said in a statement.Mandiant is known for unearthing the SolarWinds hack that shook the world.Several big companies,…

Google has completed its acquisition of Mandiant, bringing a major name in cybersecurity under the tech giant’s ever-growing umbrella. The $5.4 billion acquisition, announced in March, was completed on Monday, according to a Google press release. Per details in the release, Mandiant will keep its own brand while operating under the Google Cloud branch of its new parent company. Google Cloud is the cloud computing platform offered by Google and provides cloud computing and data storage infrastructure for other companies…

A cyberattack that temporarily shut down numerous Albanian government digital services and websites in mid-July was likely the work of pro-Iranian hackers seeking to disrupt an Iranian opposition group's conference in Albania, a leading US cybersecurity firm said. In a report, Mandiant expressed "moderate confidence" the attackers were acting in support of Tehran's anti-dissident efforts based on several factors: The timing, the content of a social media channel used to claim responsibility, and similarities in software…