Vengeful Club Penguin Hackers Reportedly Steal 2.5 GB of Disney’s Data

Club Penguin fans reportedly hacked into Disney’s internal servers this week, uncovering internal data about Disney’s larger business.   By Maxwell Zeff PublishedThursday 2:45PM When Disney shut down Club Penguin in 2017, millions of disgruntled fans were left without a virtual, penguin-based world to call home. This week, Bleeping Computer reports that […]

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Cybercriminals selling new tool weaponizing Raspberry Pi

Ernestas Naprys  Senior Journalist: Threat actors have come up with a new solution called Geobox that transforms the mini-computer Raspberry Pi into a Swiss-army knife type of hacking device for fraudsters and other criminals. Sold for a lifetime fee of $700 or a monthly rate of $80, the software is […]

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500ms to midnight: XZ / liblzma backdoor

SAMIR BOUSSEADEN•MIKA AYENSON•JAKE KING: Elastic Security Labs is releasing an initial analysis of the XZ Utility backdoor, including YARA rules, osquery, and KQL searches to identify potential compromises. Key Takeaways On March 29, 2024, Andres Freund identified malicious commits to the command-line utility XZ, impacting versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 for […]

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Should I disconnect my PC from the internet when I have a virus?

By Arne Arnold It is often recommended to disconnect the internet connection in the event of a virus attack. But is it really sensible or even necessary to disconnect the computer from the internet? You realize that your computer is infected by a virus. There’s a tip circulating online that you […]

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The hacking underworld has removed all of AI’s guardrails, but the good guys are closing in

Rachel Curry@WRITINGSOFRACH: KEY POINTS Cybercriminals are using AI to execute highly targeted attacks at scale, causing people to unwittingly send money and sensitive information or simply open themselves up to theft. Hackers are now able to rent generative AI large language models created in the underground cybercrime community to help […]

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Top US cybersecurity agency hacked and forced to take some systems offline

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN  2 minute read Published 7:37 PM EST, Fri March 8, 2024 A federal agency in charge of cybersecurity discovered it was hacked last month and was forced to take two key computer systems offline, an agency spokesperson and US officials familiar with the incident told CNN. One […]

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