More and more gas stations on the East Coast are running out of fuel as frightened drivers aggressively fill their tanks following a ransomware attack that shut down the Colonial Pipeline, a critical gas artery in the United States. Panic buying threatens to exacerbate the jump in fuel prices ...
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will pay nearly $ 625 to anyone who breaks into the untraceable cryptocurrency Monero and other confidential currencies. Decrypt writes about it. “The IRS is looking for a solution with one or more contractors to provide innovative tracking and attribution solutions ...
In the United States, a 17-year-old was arrested on charges of organizing the largest hacker attack on Twitter, during which the accounts of pop stars, politicians and top businessmen were hacked. Writes about this BBC. Attorney Andrew Warren brought charges against the teenager for 30 ...
At the end of February, a federal grand jury sitting in San Francisco approved an indictment in the case of hacking American computers, in which two employees of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) were involved - a Russian hacker born in Lithuania and a Canadian citizen who came from Kazakhstan. The BBC has studied...
Yahoo has reported a powerful attack by cyber criminals. Attackers hacked about a billion accounts belonging to clients. Experts call the hack the largest in recent memory. "Yahoo has won the gold medal for the worst hack in history," says Hemu Nigam, CEO of consulting firm SSP Blue, which...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has rejected accusations that Russia was involved in hacking the computers of the US Democratic Party, saying that he knows “absolutely nothing” about it. According to Putin, at the state level, Russia does not engage in hacker attacks on other states. "And then,…
A lone hacker disguised as Guccifer 2.0 has claimed responsibility for hacking into the computer network of the US Democratic National Committee. According to Reuters, the hacker posted on his WordPress blog as proof that he hacked the network ...
A database of over 32 million Twitter accounts has been put up for sale on the digital black market. The LeakedSource portal reports. LeakedSource experts randomly checked the records containing email addresses and passwords: 15 out of 15 passwords were found to be valid. ...
An unknown hacker under the pseudonym Peace put up for sale on an illegal website on the Internet millions of accounts of the social network LinkedIn, which were hacked back in 2012. Then LinkedIn management agreed to pay its users compensation for passwords stolen by hackers as a result of...
Russian hackers may have carried out the largest cyberattack, as a result of which the logins and passwords of 272,3 million email accounts were stolen, according to Alex Holden, founder of Hold Security. According to Holden, the largest one in Russia suffered from data theft ...