The Korean arm of French luxury brand Chanel has issued an apology after personal data belonging to its customers was exposed. In a statement issued earlier this week, Chanel Korea blamed the data leak that happened on August 8 on a recent cyber-attack. A database belonging to the famed perfume and fashion brand is believed to have been compromised by a hacker or hackers at some point between August 5 and 6. READ MORE...
The hacker who breached the Poly Network crypto platform says the theft was just "for fun :)" and that the hacker is now returning the stolen coins. The hacker also claimed that the tokens had been transferred to the hacker's own wallets to "keep it safe." Poly Network first disclosed the hack on Tuesday, saying that the hacker, or hackers, had stolen crypto coins worth about $600 million at the time of the heist. READ MORE...
The illicit marketplace AlphaBay appears to have resurfaced, four years after a high-profile takedown by international law enforcement agencies. The reboot, according to researchers at Flashpoint, isn't an exact a replica. Rather, the reconstituted version of the site is described as an homage to the original and a tribute to the now deceased alleged AlphaBay moderator Alexandre Cazes. READ MORE...
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) took down a network of cryptocurrency exchanges used to anonymize transactions since the beginning of 2021. Over 1,000 "customers" used the clandestine exchanges to launder funds received from Russian electronic payments processors, including Yandex.Money, Qiwi, and Webmoney. "The clandestine cryptocurrency exchanges were in demand because they provided anonymity of transactions and possibility of money laundering," the SBU said. READ MORE...
Threat actors are actively exploiting Microsoft Exchange servers using the ProxyShell vulnerability to install backdoors for later access. ProxyShell is the name of an attack that uses three chained Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities to perform unauthenticated, remote code execution. The three vulnerabilities were discovered by Devcore Principal Security Researcher Orange Tsai, who chained them together to take over a Microsoft Exchange server in April's Pwn2Own 2021 hacking contest. READ MORE...