If you pay for Pornhub Premium, you’ve got more problems than someone seeing that charge show up on your credit card bill. According to a report from Bleeping Computer, a prominent hacking group is currently holding the data of PornHub’s paying members hostage as part of an extortion attempt. The situation started when the hacking […]
$120 Million Exploit Has Chilling Effect on Entire Crypto Ecosystem
Balancer, which is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol focused on automated market making (AMM), was exploited early Monday morning in an attack that may have led to $120 million or more in losses for its users. The specific details of how the attack was pulled off are still unclear at this time. According to an […]
Hackers Can Tamper With Train Brakes Using Just a Radio, Feds Warn
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an advisory last week warning that a key train system could be hacked using nothing but a radio and a little know-how. The flaw has to do with the protocol used in a train system known as the End-of-Train and Head-of-Train. A Flashing Rear End Device (FRED), […]
19-Year-Old to Plead Guilty to Hacking Charges After Data Breach of Millions of Schoolchildren
A Massachusetts teenager has pled guilty to a number of hacking crimes, including his role in the penetration of a cloud company with data on tens of millions of children, the government says. On Wednesday, the Justice Department said that 19-year-old Matthew D. Lane of Sterling, Massachusetts, had entered into a plea agreement with the […]
Internet Cesspool 4chan Is Down After Alleged Hack, Rival Forum Users Claim Credit
4chan has apparently fallen. The notorious image board that has been the origin of some of the best and absolute worst things that the internet has to offer allegedly fell victim to a hack that has left the site inaccessible since late Monday night through Tuesday morning, according to data from DownDetector. Shortly after reports […]