CyberSec Roundup A synopsis of the Latest Cybersecurity News   $10 Million Ransomware Attack on Hospital A thousand-bed French hospital was hit with a ransomware attack last week. As the attack comprised most of the hospital’s I.T. systems, such as admissions and medical imaging, it was forced to reduce operations and transfer some patients to[…]

CyberSec Roundup A synopsis of the Latest Cybersecurity News   Attack With the Rhythm Janet Jackson’s hit music video from 1989 can be used to cause a denial-of-service attack!  Tracked as CVE-2022-38392, the audio from the Rhythm Nation video contains natural resonant frequencies that can cause older 5400 rpm hard drives to crash. However, these[…]

CyberSec Roundup A synopsis of the Latest Cybersecurity News   A Very Dirty Hack ShitExpress, a prank website that allows customers to send animal feces to friends and foes was recently breached by well-known hacker pompompurin. He was on the site as a customer when he noticed it was vulnerable to SQL Injection attacks. Pompompurin[…]

CyberSec Roundup A synopsis of the Latest Cybersecurity News   $200 Million Crypto Hack The blockchain bridge Nomad was hit with a cyberattack last week, to the tune of $200 million. These bridges are more vulnerable to attacks and have been targeted accordingly by hackers of late. However, this flaw was easy to exploit, and[…]

CyberSec Roundup A synopsis of the Latest Cybersecurity News   Twitter Breach Affects 5 Million Accounts Twitter’s platform had a vulnerability that allowed a hacker called “devil” to illegitimately extract information for 5.4 million users on the platform. The hacker is selling the information for $30,000, which includes phone numbers and email addresses for Twitter[…]

CyberSec Roundup A synopsis of the Latest Cybersecurity News   Hacking Hondas Security researchers found a security flaw called Rolling-PWN in many modern Honda models. This vulnerability causes replay attacks, where hackers can intercept the codes from the keyfob to the car, and allow many of these vehicles to be unlocked or started remotely. Various[…]

CyberSec Roundup A synopsis of the Latest Cybersecurity News   Disneyland’s Socials Hacked Disneyland’s Instagram account was compromised by a self-proclaimed “super hacker” going by the name David Do. He got control of the account and made a series of racially offensive posts on the platform directed at the company’s African American employees. Disney regained[…]

CyberSec Roundup A synopsis of the Latest Cybersecurity News   AMD Extorted by RansomHouse Having previously extorted Shoprite, RansomHouse claimed AMD as their most recent victim. The group says they were able to get their hands on over 450 gigabytes of AMD’s data because their employees use very weak security practices. AMD has not yet[…]

CyberSec Roundup A synopsis of the Latest Cybersecurity News   Flagstar Bank Breach The Michigan-based bank disclosed that its systems were compromised in December 2021 and the personal information of more than 1.5 million of its customers was exposed. There hasn’t been any indication that the information has been misused so far, but the bank[…]

CyberSec Roundup A synopsis of the Latest Cybersecurity News   Shoprite Extorted The largest supermarket chain in Africa was struck by a cyberattack attack last week. Shoprite notified customers that their personal information was compromised in the attack, but not their financial or bank account information. A new extortion group called RansomHouse was behind the[…]