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Anonymous hacked into Romanian prison system and cut off prisoners’ sentences
Anonymous and The AEGIS Alliance News
October 25, 2025
Anonymous hacked into Romanian prison system and cut off prisoners’ sentences
A hacker affiliated with the Anonymous collective recently shocked the cybersecurity world by breaching Romania’s prison management system and reducing sentences for himself and 15 fellow inmates at the Târgu…
U.S. Treasury Sanctions Beijing Integrity Technology Group for Helping Flax Typhoon Reach American Networks
Hacker News
January 4, 2025
U.S. Treasury Sanctions Beijing Integrity Technology Group for Helping Flax Typhoon Reach American Networks
OFAC froze Integrity Tech days after Treasury disclosed its own BeyondTrust breach. The company called the listing baseless. The AEGIS Alliance is treating the pipes as still live.
Chinese State-Sponsored Hackers Walked Into U.S. Treasury Workstations Through a Stolen BeyondTrust Remote Support Key
Hacker News
December 30, 2024
Chinese State-Sponsored Hackers Walked Into U.S. Treasury Workstations Through a Stolen BeyondTrust Remote Support Key
Treasury told Congress a stolen BeyondTrust key let a China-linked actor reach Departmental Offices machines and unclassified files. OFAC later named Yin Kecheng.
U.S. Charges Curitiba Hacker Junior Barros De Oliveira With Extorting $3.2 Million in Bitcoin After a 300,000-Record Breach
Hacker News
December 26, 2024
U.S. Charges Curitiba Hacker Junior Barros De Oliveira With Extorting $3.2 Million in Bitcoin After a 300,000-Record Breach
A Newark indictment unsealed December 23, 2024, charges Junior Barros De Oliveira, 29, of Curitiba, Brazil, with threatening to leak about 300,000 customer records stolen from a Brazilian subsidiary of…
Dutch Regulator’s 290 Million Euro Uber GDPR Fine Still Sits on Appeal After an 825 Million Follow-On Penalty
International News
August 26, 2024
Dutch Regulator’s 290 Million Euro Uber GDPR Fine Still Sits on Appeal After an 825 Million Follow-On Penalty
The Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens fined Uber 290 million euros on August 26, 2024, for sending EEA driver data to the United States without Article 44 safeguards. Uber appealed. On August 17,…
ESET NGate Malware Relays NFC Card Data to Clone Contactless Payments Then Returns Inside a Fake HandyPay App
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August 25, 2024
ESET NGate Malware Relays NFC Card Data to Clone Contactless Payments Then Returns Inside a Fake HandyPay App
NGate turns a victim Android phone into an NFC relay so an attacker can tap a cloned card at an ATM. The first wave hit Czech bank customers. An April…
Hardware Backdoor In Fudan FM11RF08S MIFARE Classic RFID Cards Lets Attackers Clone Hotel Keys And Office Badges Worldwide
Hacker News
August 22, 2024
Hardware Backdoor In Fudan FM11RF08S MIFARE Classic RFID Cards Lets Attackers Clone Hotel Keys And Office Badges Worldwide
Philippe Teuwen and the Proxmark3 community found a one-bit command that switches Fudan FM11RF08S cards onto a global hardware backdoor key. The Iceman v4.18994 release shipped the attack. The chips…
Former NSA Employee Jareh Sebastian Dalke Gets Nearly 22 Years for Trying to Sell U.S. Secrets to Russia
Hacker News
May 1, 2024
Former NSA Employee Jareh Sebastian Dalke Gets Nearly 22 Years for Trying to Sell U.S. Secrets to Russia
Jareh Sebastian Dalke, an Army veteran who lasted less than a month at NSA, was sentenced to 262 months after an FBI sting at Denver's Union Station.
Major Security Flaws Expose Keystrokes of Nearly 1 Billion Chinese Pinyin Keyboard App Users, Citizen Lab Finds
Hacker News
April 25, 2024
Major Security Flaws Expose Keystrokes of Nearly 1 Billion Chinese Pinyin Keyboard App Users, Citizen Lab Finds
Citizen Lab found cloud pinyin keyboard apps leaking nearly a billion users' keystrokes. Eight of nine popular Chinese input apps were vulnerable to network eavesdroppers.