The CIA Has Secretly Run a ‘Bulk Collection’ Program
Plus: Vulnerability fixes, the return of EARN IT, and more of the week’s top security news. Powered by...
Hackers Rigged Hundreds of Ecommerce Sites to Steal Payment Info
The attackers exploited a known vulnerability and installed credit card skimmers on more than 500 websites. Powered by WPeMatico
South Korea Jails Seven Masterminds of Country’s ‘Largest Crypto Fraud Scheme’
Seven executives of the collapsed South Korean scam cryptocurrency exchange, V Global, were recently handed lengthy jail sentences as punishment for their role in running one of the country’s biggest crypto frauds. Verdict Sets New Benchmark Seven former masterminds of the now-defunct scam crypto exchange, V Global, were recently given jail sentences for their part in misappropriating nearly $1.9 billion in investors’ funds. Lee...
Cydia Dev Discloses Ethereum L2 Bug — Optimism Attacker Could Have ‘Printed an Arbitrary Quantity of Tokens’
On February 10, the well-known developer of Cydia and iOS Jailbreak, Jay Freeman, otherwise known as Saurik, published a Twitter thread about a bug he found in the Layer-2 (L2) scaling protocol known as Optimism. According to Freeman, the vulnerability, which has been patched, could have allowed an attacker to create an infinite amount of tokens. Cydia Creator ‘Saurik’ Discovers Optimism L2 Vulnerability Jay Freeman is a prominent...
Hungary’s Central Bank Governor Calls for EU-Wide Ban on Cryptocurrency Trading and Mining
The governor of Hungary’s central bank has called for a ban on cryptocurrency trading and mining in the European Union. “It is clear-cut that cryptocurrencies could service illegal activities and tend to build up financial pyramids,” he said. Hungarian Central Bank Chief Wants EU-Wide Crypto Trading and Mining Ban The Hungarian National Bank, the central bank of Hungary, published a statement Friday from György Matolcsy, the governor...
