South Korean cyber security organisation AhnLab has identified a breach in Microsoft SQL servers allowing deployment of Trigona ransomware. The attacks were threat actors using brute-force or dictionary attacks with obtained or guessed credentials to infiltrate externally accessible MS-SQL servers.

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Microsoft’s security advisory on Mercury and DEV-1084 and a report linking Russian hackers to attacks against NATO and the EU.

Remember The Sims? Well Stanford created a small virtual world with 25 ChatGPT-powered "people". The simulation ran for 2 days and showed that AI-powered bots can interact in a very human-like way. They planned a party, coordinated the event, and attended the party within the sim. A summary of it can be found on the Cornell University website. That page also has a download link for a PDF of the entire paper (via Reddit).

The Cyber Police of Ukraine have arrested twelve alleged members of an organized cybercrime group that’s stolen approximately $4.3 million from users across Europe, the Hacker News reports.

Being untraceable, untouchable, and ungovernable is a key part of the myth and mystique of ‘hackers’. Sure enough, the ability to hide has always been a central part of the hackers’ MO in both the physical and digital world. At Bulletproof, we’re no strangers to the insidious nature of hackers.

The Trustwave SpiderLabs research team has been tracking a new threat group calling itself Anonymous Sudan, which has carried out a series of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against Swedish, Dutch, Australian, and German organizations purportedly in retaliation for anti-Muslim activity that had taken place in those countries.

Banks are entrusted with a great deal of personal information, money, and more by their customers. When a bank isn't able to secure those things, it's a major issue. This is an issue that the Tri-Counties Bank in Chico faced earlier this year. It wasn't money that the bank failed to protect, but customer information. The bank suffered from a serious cyber attack and lost confidential information in the process.

Hacks and data leaks have affected many major players in recent years, including AT&T Vendor(9 Million accounts), T-Mobile (37 Million accounts), JD Sports(10 Million), MyDeal (2.2Million), Dropbox (nearly 69 million accounts), Flagstar bank (1.5 Million) and eBay (145 million). Those were bad. But not the worst. What are the most notorious hacks in history? They’re subject to debate, but these 27 attacks categorized under OWASP Top 10 would be strong candidates for the title.