The DoJ is reportedly probing the murky world of bitcoin trading May 24, 2018 | sento | Leave a comment Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have taken a wild ride over the past 18 months. Now, according to Bloomberg News, the US Department of Justice has opened a criminal investigation into whether price manipulations have contributed to the meteoric rises and crushing falls. The coins prosecutors are examining include bitcoin and ether, which have both bounced… Read More
3 Charged In Fatal Kansas ‘Swatting’ Attack May 24, 2018 | sento | Leave a comment Federal prosecutors have charged three men with carrying out a deadly hoax known as “swatting,” in which perpetrators call or message a target’s local 911 operators claiming a fake hostage situation or a bomb threat in progress at the target’s address — with the expectation that local police may respond to the scene with deadly… Read More
The Pentagon Released New Documents About the ‘Tic-Tac UFO’ May 24, 2018 | sento | Leave a comment Now, a local investigative news team in Las Vegas obtained a 13-page document prepared for the military that analyzes what happened that day in 2004. The investigation was led by George Knapp, a journalist who made a name for himself in the 80s for substantiating parts of a story peddled by the prominent UFOlogist Bob… Read More
Woman says Amazon recorded private conversation, sent it out to random contact May 24, 2018 | sento | Leave a comment A Portland family contacted Amazon to investigate after they say a private conversation in their home was recorded by Amazon’s Alexa — the voice-controlled smart speaker — and that the recorded audio was sent to the phone of a random person in Seattle, who was in the family’s contact list. A Portland family contacted Amazon… Read More
Losses from BEC scams rising fast and furious May 24, 2018 | sento | Leave a comment A new report by the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center has shown that complaints about scams and fraud are rising now at a record high and have resulted in reported losses of up to $1.42 billion In a typical BEC scam, a criminal dupes a company’s finance department into carrying out an unauthorized transfer of… Read More
Bitcoin Gold Hit by Double Spend Attack, Exchanges Lose Millions May 24, 2018 | sento | Leave a comment A malicious miner successfully executed a double spend attack on the Bitcoin Gold network last week, making BTG at least the third altcoin to succumb to a network attack during that timespan. Bitcoin Gold director of communications Edward Iskra first warned users about the attack on May 18, explaining that a malicious miner was using… Read More
Sounds, pressure, brain injury: Case of US gov’t employee in China raises alert May 23, 2018 | sento | Leave a comment The case draws eerie similarities to mysterious ‘health attacks’ in Cuba. The US government issued an alert Wednesday following reports that a government employee stationed in southern China experienced “subtle and vague, but abnormal, sensations of sound and pressure” and sustained a brain injury. Responding to an email from the New York Times, a spokesperson… Read More
Backdoor Account Found in D-Link DIR-620 Routers May 23, 2018 | sento | Leave a comment Discovered by Kaspersky Lab researchers, this backdoor grants an attacker access to the device’s web panel, and there’s no way in which device owners can disable this secret account. To prevent abuse, Kaspersky researchers have refrained from disclosing the backdoor’s account username and password. The backdoor account (CVE-2018-6213) is just one of four vulnerabilities Kaspersky… Read More
New VPNFilter malware targets 100,000s of networking devices worldwide May 23, 2018 | sento | Leave a comment For several months, Talos has been working with public- and private-sector threat intelligence partners and law enforcement in researching an advanced, likely state-sponsored or state-affiliated actor’s widespread use of a sophisticated modular malware system we call ‘VPNFilter.’ We have not completed our research, but recent events have convinced us that the correct way forward is… Read More
Over a dozen vulnerabilities uncovered in BMW vehicles May 23, 2018 | sento | Leave a comment After 13 months of research, the team discovered 14 vulnerabilities which could place connected cars at risk of compromise. The tests were conducted with BMW’s backing and in laboratory conditions. Impacted vehicles are included in the automaker’s i Series, X1 sDrive, 5 Series, and 7 Series. In total, as documented in Keen Security Lab’s technical… Read More