by crissly | Nov 22, 2021 | Security, Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks
When ransomware hit a biomanufacturing facility this spring, something didn’t sit right with the response team. The attackers left only a halfhearted ransom note, and didn’t seem all that interested in actually collecting a payment. Then there was the...
by crissly | Oct 6, 2021 | Culture, Culture / Video Games, Security, Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks
This morning, an anonymous hacker released what they claim is an enormous cache of proprietary data from Twitch, the popular streaming platform, including Twitch.tv source code and streamers’ revenue information. “Jeff Bezos paid $970 million for this, we’re giving it...
by crissly | Aug 25, 2021 | Security, Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks
It’s a shocking revelation: The Bahraini government allegedly purchased and deployed sophisticated malware against human rights activists, including spyware that required no interaction from the victim—no clicked links, no permissions granted—to take hold on...
by crissly | Aug 4, 2021 | Security, Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks
Kyasupā wondered if he could hack his hotel’s iPod Touch controls after they handed it to him at check in, but he didn’t want to waste his vacation time reverse-engineering the system. He says he changed his mind after a noisy neighbor kept him up for...
by crissly | Jun 1, 2021 | Security, Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks
The disruptive power of ransomware was already on full display last month, thanks to the Colonial Pipeline attack that for days halted fuel distribution from a crucial pipeline on the East Coast of the United States. Now, a different attack over the weekend is...
by crissly | May 11, 2021 | Security, Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks
DarkSide was illustrative of that enforcement problem even before the Colonial Pipeline attack. It almost exclusively targets English-speaking organizations and is widely thought to be a criminal group based in Russia or Eastern Europe. The DarkSide malware is even...
