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Cryptocurrency platforms have lost $1.7 billion worth of assets from cyberattacks last year, representing a nearly $2 billion drop from 2022, which had the highest-ever losses from cryptocurrency heists, despite a slight increase in attack volume, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
In the Security News: Don’t expose your supercomputer, auth bypass and command injection FTW, just patch it, using OSQuery against you, massive credential stuffing, backdoors in Harmony, looking at Android, so basically I am licensing my printer, hacking Tesla, injecting keystrokes over Bluetooth, and remembering the work of David L. Mills.
Hackread reports that hardware cryptocurrency wallet Trezor had almost 66,000 users' contact information possibly exfiltrated following a breach of its third-party support portal.
Operations of some of Kansas State University's network systems, including those for its email, video, and VPN services, have been disrupted as a result of a cyberattack on Jan. 16, BleepingComputer reports.
Attackers have been compromising vulnerable Docker services with the XMRig cryptocurrency mining malware and the 9HIts Viewer software as part of a novel hacking campaign that not only exfiltrates cryptocurrency but also generates fake website traffic, The Hacker News reports.
Officials at the National Bank of Angola have disclosed that none of the bank's infrastructure and data were significantly impacted by a cyberattack on Jan. 6, which has already been mitigated, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
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