Bite Sized Cyber Crime

Cloudbleed and the Vitality of Cloud Security

The cloud is ever expanding and allowing people to easily scale up at rates previously impossible. However one thing that must be considered is that security becomes complicated. You have to really trust your cloud provider to hold up their end, and even trusted providers can have oversights.
Sources: https://pastebin.com/2LJPjrVx

Threat Actors Bribing Mobile Carriers into SIM Swapping

MFA is becoming more and more common, but with every security innovation, threat actors figure out ways around them. Recently it came out that an unknown actor was bribing employees at T-Mobile and Verizon to perform SIM swapping attacks, which can compromise SMS based MFA codes.
 
Sources: https://pastebin.com/h47Mijdt

Storm Worm: The Malware that Took Down Warnings of Itself

In 2007 clickbait emails could make you part of a botnet that silenced cybersecurity professionals and performed attacks for anyone on the dark web willing to pay. Not a worm, but a Trojan, this is how the Storm Worm was ahead of its time.
Sources: https://pastebin.com/nPbinx0i

Password Stuffing: Why you Should Use Unique Passwords for Every Site

There's a reason you should use a unique password for every website you use, but most people simply don't. How are you supposed to make and remember dozens of passwords for each site that are completely unique and can't be written down?
What if I told you it doesn't have to be that difficult?

XZ Utils Contains a Backdoor on Unstable Linux Distros

XZ Utils is an inconspicuous program in many Linux distributions that allows you to compress files. However, it seems one maintainer of the open source project had much more malicious plans.
 
Sources: https://pastebin.com/awZzM7qk

New DoS Method Traps UDP Protocols in a Loop

Denial of Service attacks are annoying at best, and can endanger people at worst. Usually you need a lot of manpower to launch one, but a new method was developed recently that requires just one machine.
 
Sources: https://pastebin.com/NS7RuYSi

ALPHV Disbands after Hacking Change Healthcare?

Change Healthcare is a major medical clearinghouse, nearly half of all insurance transactions go through them, so when ransomware struck the effect was felt all over the healthcare industry. However it gets stranger, as the group responsible seems to have scammed their affiliates and faked a takedown.
Sources: https://pastebin.com/PRmnEGnL

Fake WiFi Network Allows for Stealing Teslas

Tesla is a tech company as much as it is a car company, which can present unique challenges when trying to incorporate security. Even intended features can end up being major vulnerabilities, like the feature to add a car key to a cell phone.
Sources: https://pastebin.com/S7Sb2KCb