Up to 12 Million Websites Have Been Hacked in Drupal attack
Drupal. Drupal, software that is utilized by millions of websites may have fallen prey to attackers that took advantage of a bug in the software. Drupal is used to easily manage web content, images, text and video. According to BBC News, up to 12 million websites may have been compromised by hackers for failing to have a crucial patch prior to the attack. In theory, attackers could have taken all data stored on websites as well as installed backdoors that would allow them to return to the website in the future and collect more data. Also read: Retailer-Backed MCX Platform CurrentC Has....
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The international hacktivist collective known as Anonymous has vowed to attack Russian government websites over the recent Ukraine invasion. So far Anonymous says that it hacked the Russian Ministry of Defense database and various state-operated television channels in Russia. Additionally, a spokesperson from Russia Today (RT) said that after Anonymous’ recent statement, RT websites were inundated with DDoS attacks.
Anonymous Aims to Laser-Kill Russian Government Websites
The decentralized international collective Anonymous wants to troll Vladimir Putin and the Russian....
A decentralized finance (defi) protocol that bragged about having flash loan attack prevention has been exploited for $6 million in DAI, in a flash loan attack. Value Defi, a yield aggregating protocol, boasted of having the “highest security” in a Nov. 13 tweet that now appears to have been deleted. The protocol claimed that its technology was capable of preventing flash loan attacks. Hardly a day later, hackers plundered Value Defi’s multi-stablecoin vault of a total of $8 million of the stablecoin DAI. The attacker returned $2 million to the protocol and pocketed $6....
Decentralized finance (defi protocol) Harvest Finance was hacked on Monday for $24 million. The attacker targeted the protocol’s liquidity pools, performing an arbitrage attack using a large flash loan – a type of uncollatarized loan – but later returned $2.5 million. In seven minutes, the hack was complete. Harvest Finance revealed that the hacker “manipulated prices on one money lego (curve y pool) to drain another money lego [farm USDT (fUSDT), farm USDC (fUSDC)], many times. The attacker then converted the funds to renBTC and exited to bitcoin.” RenBTC is....
A Brisbane-based business was recently hacked and perpetrators are demanding bitcoin payments to return sensitive company information. Other companies in Queensland are being reminded to be wary of potential malware and to enhance their security on their websites. The business has already given in to the hackers' demands but they attacked again, this time aiming their efforts on a senior company official. Police say that threats to the family were made online. Bitcoin Payments Extortion. "This is a very serious attack on an organisation and quite traumatic for the business, the victim and....
Unknown scammers have organized a fake bitcoin giveaway through a Russian government website they hacked. The news of the attack comes after a recent report revealed that damages from crypto-related fraud in Russia have reached $30 million in value in the first half of this year.
Regional Government Website in Russia Hacked by Scammers
The main website of the local administration in the Russian city of Ryazan, around 200 km southeast of Moscow, has been targeted by hackers twice in a single day, Rzn.info reported quoted by the crypto news outlet Forklog. The unidentified....