Smart devices are making their ways into homes without people understanding how to properly secure them. This it self is dangerous, but smart devices also exist in critical infrastructure, and may be similarly poorly secured. A compromise of these systems could be deadly, it is fortunate this one was not. Sources: https://pastebin.com/r3YqNc7x ..read more

Buying electronics is something we may not give a second thought about, especially with companies like Amazon making it convenient. Buying used electronics to get a good deal is also not unusual for some. But sometimes you end up unlucky and have a keyboard that tries to steal your own password from under your fingertips ..read more

Ransomware is already a major threat for many organizations without bringing regulators into it. The ALPHV ransomware group reported its own victims to the SEC for failure to disclose a data breach that they caused, sending a rather unusual warning for the future. Sources: https://pastebin.com/53izNKFg ..read more

Plastic surgery is already a taboo subject, so hackers targeted Hankins and Sohn with hopes that the leverage of personal medical information would lead to a major payout. The hackers did not get what they had hoped for, and moved on to extorting victims. When that ended up fruitless, sensitive images and information were posted online and sent to friends and neighbors. Sources: https://pastebin.com/5wHSuFhn ..read more

One of the earliest examples of malware was an experiment that simply got way too out of control and ended up leading to the first conviction under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. This is the history of the Morris Worm.   Sources: https://pastebin.com/CE04Zqqu ..read more

Ransomware gangs are a major threat to all organizations big or small, and rarely do we see them lose due to the situations they put people in. Last week, however, a major emerging threat was satisfyingly stomped out by a hacktivist group.   Sources: https://pastebin.com/TtpWPZ8w ..read more

When developers of curl announced a cycle cut short to fix a high severity vulnerability, administrators panicked. Although still bad, the vulnerability ended up only executable under pretty specific circumstances.   Sources: https://pastebin.com/90uQ94Xd ..read more

Ransomware can be handled in two different ways: Paying, or not paying. It's controversial which option is best. Two casinos had a ransomware incident and once paid while the other did not, let's compare. Sources: https://pastebin.com/t5uRyMWb ..read more

What was thought to be a Chrome bug turned out to be a much larger and much more serious vulnerability in a library used to render webp images that could allow code to be remotely executed on target systems.   Sources: https://pastebin.com/wD1tNxYH ..read more

Hackers are constantly innovating and trying new things to break into systems, last week a new attacker was discovered that is writing malware in a rarely seen programming language using an even stranger compiler. Sources: https://pastebin.com/XNFmxJmS ..read more