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Category: The Coming Storm

  • Web Hacking Service ‘Araneida’ Tied to Turkish IT Firm

    Web Hacking Service ‘Araneida’ Tied to Turkish IT Firm Cybercriminals are selling hundreds of thousands of credential sets stolen with the help of a cracked version of Acunetix, a powerful commercial web app vulnerability scanner, new research finds. The cracked software is being resold as a cloud-based attack tool by at least two different services,…

  • Hacker in Snowflake Extortions May Be a U.S. Soldier

    Hacker in Snowflake Extortions May Be a U.S. Soldier Two men have been arrested for allegedly stealing data from and extorting dozens of companies that used the cloud data storage company Snowflake, but a third suspect — a prolific hacker known as Kiberphant0m — remains at large and continues to publicly extort victims. However, this…

  • Fintech Giant Finastra Investigating Data Breach

    Fintech Giant Finastra Investigating Data Breach The financial technology firm Finastra is investigating the alleged large-scale theft of information from its internal file transfer platform, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Finastra, which provides software and services to 45 of the world’s top 50 banks, notified customers of the security incident after a cybercriminal began selling more than…