Bite Sized Cyber Crime

EV Chargers Hacked in Pwn2Own Automotive

Pwn2Own by TrendMicro's Zero Day Initiative is a hacking contest where people try to hack "up to date" products to discover zero day vulnerabilities in them and win cash prizes for doing so. The automotive version of this contest not only involved cars themselves, but chargers for electric vehicles.
Sources: https://pastebin.com/4siwYEYK

Crowdstrike Phishing Email Installs Crypto Miner

Job offer scams are sadly rather common, but most of the time it's a waste of time or an identity theft scam rather than a scam that installs unauthorized crypto miners on your devices. A new scam email impersonating Crowdstrike that is targeting developers does just that.
Sources: https://pastebin.com/Lpg673yh

US Treasury Hacked in String of Chinese Nation State Cyberattacks

The US Department of Treasury was targeted in a suspected state-sponsored hack. No ransomware was deployed, though the threat actors compromised machines remotely, linked to a BeyondTrust data breach and accessed many unclassified documents.
Sources: https://pastebin.com/rUi3Wdxg

Deepfakes Used to Commit Financial Fraud

Deepfakes and AI image and video generation have become nearly indistinguishable from real people to the naked eye. This creates a problem when it comes to identity verification that involves previously very difficult to fake Face ID systems. Recently a deep web identity fraud database was being build was scraped data and images with the intention to target financial accounts.
Sources: https://pastebin.com/X7acHzs9

Ascension Notifies 5.6 Million of Breach

The healthcare industry remains one of the top targeted by hackers, and even the biggest healthcare organizations are not safe.
Sources: https://pastebin.com/UgauFXsL

The Melissa Virus

In 1999 one of the most infamous viruses was released on the world, slowing down email systems and causing chaos in the corporate world and among personal computer users.
Sources: https://pastebin.com/FgE9ETKk

FBI Advisory: Use Encrypted Channels for Texting

Telecom providers across many countries have been compromised by an APT, which means your text messages may be vulnerable if you text people with different phones, due to insecurities in text message protocols. Fortunately there's some solutions.
Sources: https://pastebin.com/pMnEP6Lj

Godot Game Engine Exploited to Distribute Malware

Game engines are used to help developers create games we love, but where code can be written, malware can be written, and one group has figured out a way to exploit the Godot game engine to discreetly package malware that often goes undetected.
Sources: https://pastebin.com/5b3LcJpW