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Bitfinex Hacker Sentenced to 5 Years, Guilty of Laundering .5 Billion in Bitcoin

Bitfinex Hacker Sentenced to 5 Years, Guilty of Laundering $10.5 Billion in Bitcoin

Ilya Lichtenstein, who pleaded guilty to the 2016 hack of cryptocurrency stock exchange Bitfinex, has been sentenced to five years in prison, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced Thursday. Lichtenstein was charged for his… 

CISA Flags Two Actively Exploited Palo Alto Flaws; New RCE Attack Confirmed

CISA Flags Two Actively Exploited Palo Alto Flaws; New RCE Attack Confirmed

Nov 15, 2024Ravie LakshmananNetwork Security / Vulnerability The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday warned that two more flaws impacting the Palo Alto Networks Expedition have come under active exploitation in the… 

Experts Uncover 70,000 Hijacked Domains in Widespread ‘Sitting Ducks’ Attack Scheme

Experts Uncover 70,000 Hijacked Domains in Widespread ‘Sitting Ducks’ Attack Scheme

Multiple threat actors have been found taking advantage of an attack technique called Sitting Ducks to hijack legitimate domains for using them in phishing attacks and investment fraud schemes for years. The findings come from… 

Google Warns of Rising Cloaking Scams, AI-Driven Fraud, and Crypto Schemes

Google Warns of Rising Cloaking Scams, AI-Driven Fraud, and Crypto Schemes

Nov 14, 2024Ravie LakshmananArtificial Intelligence / Cryptocurrency Google has revealed that bad actors are leveraging techniques like landing page cloaking to conduct scams by impersonating legitimate sites. “Cloaking is specifically designed to prevent moderation systems…