Bite Sized Cyber Crime

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.<...