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NSO Group Hacked

Schneier on Security

NSO Group, the Israeli cyberweapons arms manufacturer behind the Pegasus spyware — used by authoritarian regimes around the world to spy on dissidents, journalists, human rights workers, and others — was hacked. Citizen Lab has been researching and reporting on its actions since 2016. There’s a lot to read out there.

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FireEye Hacked

Schneier on Security

FireEye was hacked by — they believe — “a nation with top-tier offensive capabilities”: During our investigation to date, we have found that the attacker targeted and accessed certain Red Team assessment tools that we use to test our customers’ security. That group dumped the N.S.A.’s operator put it.

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UAE Hack and Leak Operations

Schneier on Security

Interesting paper on recent hack-and-leak operations attributed to the UAE: Abstract: Four hack-and-leak operations in U.S. Although "hacking" tools enable easy access to secret information, they are a double-edged sword, as their discovery means the scandal becomes about the hack itself, not about the hacked information.

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Leaked NSA Hacking Tools

Schneier on Security

In 2016, a hacker group calling itself the Shadow Brokers released a trove of 2013 NSA hacking tools and related documents. Most people believe it is a front for the Russian government.

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Bitfinex hacker Ilya Lichtenstein was sentenced to 5 years in prison

Security Affairs

Bitfinex hacker, Ilya Lichtenstein , who stole 1 billion worth of Bitcoins from Bitfinex in 2016, has been sentenced to five years in prison. Billion in stolen cryptocurrency stolen during the 2016 hack of Bitfinex. billion in cryptocurrency (roughly 95,000 of the stolen crypto assets) linked to that hack.

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Deloitte denied its systems were hacked by Brain Cipher ransomware group

Security Affairs

Deloitte discovered the hack in March 2017, and according to The Guardian, the attackers may have had access to the company systems since October or November 2016. The attackers hacked into the Deloitte global email server through an administrators account that allowed them to have full access to any area of the accountancy firm.

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Who’s Behind the Seized Forums ‘Cracked’ & ‘Nulled’?

Krebs on Security

The FBI joined authorities across Europe last week in seizing domain names for Cracked and Nulled , English-language cybercrime forums with millions of users that trafficked in stolen data, hacking tools and malware. to , and vDOS , a DDoS-for-hire service that was shut down in 2016 after its founders were arrested. lol and nulled[.]it.

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