50 Cent claims hacker made $300 million using his account for crypto scheme
50 Cent claims he was hacked, and that thieves used his platform in a cryptocurrency pump-and-dump scheme, making off with $300 million. “My Twitter and Thisis50.com were hacked,” the 48-year-old rapper said. he wrote on Instagram late Friday.. “I have nothing to do with this cryptocurrency. Twitter quickly re-locked my account. Whoever did this made […]
Chinese Hacker Arrested in Takedown of World’s Largest Botnet
An international law enforcement team has reportedly arrested a Chinese hacker accused of operating a massive botnet for nearly a decade and accumulating at least $99 million in profits by selling access to cybercriminals. luck Reports On May 24, the Department of Justice announced the arrest of 35-year-old Wang Yunhe in connection with operating the […]
Microsoft still fending off Russian hacker group after January cyber attack
George Kurtz said the “most frightening part” of recent large-scale cyberattacks was that password spraying was fairly basic on the scale of the Kraman Countdown attack. Microsoft said it remains unable to shake off Russian hackers who breached multiple email accounts belonging to company executives. Midnight Blizzard, the group Microsoft named responsible for ongoing cyberattacks […]
FBI Finds Chinese State Hacker Malware on Hundreds of U.S. Infrastructure-Related Routers
The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced Wednesday that they have successfully thwarted a large-scale Chinese cyber espionage operation dubbed “Volt Typhoon” that infiltrated critical infrastructure systems in the United States. Bolt Typhoon is detected Microsoft said the culprits were state-sponsored hackers from China who had developed “capabilities that […]