Bite Sized Cyber Crime

Did AI Try To Blackmail An Executive?

In many doomsday scenarios AI become sentient and try to kill mankind, but has this already started to happen? Many sensational headlines would lead you to believe so, but the answer is a little more complicated than that...
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3 Hacker Groups Team Up to Form Salesforce Extortion Site

3 notorious hacking groups have teamed up to form one huge site threatening to extort 39 major organizations out of their Salesforce data, which was acquired through a series of phishing attacks. Though Salesforce was not actually a target themselves, they also face extortion and some reputational damage.
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How A Bad Password Killed A Decades Old Firm

Oh how the mighty have fallen. It takes a lot for a business to survive even 5 years after an attack, let alone 158. So what could kill such a strong business that clearly has it figured out? It turns out the Achilles heel is often just a single bad password.
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Spear Phishing Using AI Generate South Korean Military Documents

Spear phishing can potentially get even more realistic with the use of generative AI. Recently North Korean threat actors leveraged prompt injection to create surprisingly realistic South Korean military documents
Sources: https://pastebin.com/H4qH2YuK

Biggest Yet Most Anticlimactic Supply Chain Attack

Supply chain attacks are one of the most devastating if done right, and one of the biggest in the history of NPM just occurred. However it was probably less fruitful than the attackers were hoping...
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France Fines Google For Cookie Violations

Tech giants have been collecting a lot of data on us for years with the use of cookies, and though efforts have been made to reduce this they have been futile. France recently fined Google hundreds of millions for cookie consent violations, but it may only be a minor cost of business to them.
Sources: https://pastebin.com/GkPf9W1c

Victims Email Phishers First in Zipline Campaign

Usually in phishing cases, you are emailed by the attackers first, but can attackers lie in wait for you to email them first? Surprisingly, yes. How is this even possible? Find out today!
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Former Dev Gets 4 Years for Sabotaging Workplace

Everyone may get elaborate revenge fantasies but few follow through due to the bad outweighing the satisfaction. One man, sensing he was to be terminated soon, however, decided if he were to go he would try to take the whole company down with him. Last week he was sentenced to 4 years in prison.
Sources: https://pastebin.com/Pi0YSFUt