“DownThem” DDoS Owner Gets 2 Year Jail Term
An Illinois man has been sentenced to two years in prison for running a distributed denial of service (DDoS) platform that enabled threat actors to perform more than 200,000 attacks. Matthew Gatrel, 33, created and ran the websites “downthem.org” and “ampnode.com.” The former offered subscriptions to a powerful DDoS arsenal, while the latter was a […]
Ransomware Group Builds Site For Victims To Search For Their Stolen Data
The ALPHV ransomware group, aka BlackCat, took its operations to a new level by building a dedicated website where customers and employees of their victim organization can check if their data was breached in an attack. AlphV is said to be a rebrand of the DarkSide/BlackMatter group, notorious for the attack on Colonial Pipeline, which […]
70,000 Patient Records Breached Due To Hacked Kaiser Permanente Email Account
Kaiser Permanente, the biggest nonprofit health plan provider in America, recently announced a data breach that exposed highly sensitive health information of close to 70,000 patients. In a June 3 notice sent to patients, Kaiser disclosed that a hacker was able to gain access to an employee’s emails at the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of […]
New Intel And AMD CPU Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Encryption Keys
Researchers have discovered that microprocessors from Intel, AMD, and others have a weakness that attackers can exploit to obtain cryptographic keys and other secret data traveling via hardware. The team discovered that dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS)—a power and thermal management feature present in every modern CPU—enables attackers to deduce the changes in power […]
