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Cybercriminals used vendor backdoor to steal almost $600,000 of Taylor Swift tickets
Two cybercriminals have stolen over $600,000 worth of tickets The tickets were primarily Taylor Swift concert tickets The criminals used a backdoor into the StubHub systems to redirect the tickets A pair of cybercriminals have been arrested and charged after allegedly stealing over 900 concert tickets, raking in over $635,000…
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Brother denies claims it locked down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates
Users have reported degraded print quality with third-party ink Firmware updates are blamed, but Brother denies all allegations HP previously admitted to updates that affected third-party ink performance Printer maker Brother has denied locking in users to its own ink cartridges via so-called firmware updates. The news came after electronics…
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This is Amazon’s first foray in servers, and certainly not the last: MicroTik franken-router is powered by the AWS Graviton 1 Arm CPU
MikroTik’s ROSE Data Server RDS2216 combines storage, networking, and containers It runs on the 16-core AWS Graviton 1 Arm CPU and has 16 ports Supports MinIO, Nextcloud, and encryption, with no subscriptions or paywalls MicroTik, a Latvian company that specializes in networking hardware and software, has launched a new enterprise…
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Ransomware’s favorite Russian crypto exchange seized by law enforcement
Major Russian cryptocurrency site taken down by law enforcement Garantex has previously been sanctioned by the EU and US The site allegedly had links to cybercrime and ransomware Law enforcement agencies from across the world have come together to shut down infamous Russian cryptocurrency exchange Garantex, which was popular amongst…
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Thousands of WordPress sites targeted with malicious plugin backdoor attacks
Security researchers found JavaScript code installing four backdoors to WP-powered sites They also found a vulnerable plugin enabling full website takeover There are patches and mitigations for all these vulnerabilities A single piece of JavaScript code deployed no less than four separate backdoors onto roughly 1,000 WordPress websites, according to…
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Another huge new botnet is infecting thousands of webcams and video recorders for DDoS attacks
A new botnet called Eleven11bot was spotted in the wild It leverages weak and default credentials to compromise IoT devices The botnet is operated by Iranian threat actors Cybersecurity researchers say they have uncovered the “biggest non-government botnet” in recent years. It is called Eleven11bot, and its malware was found…
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