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Borrowing from the playbook of ransomware purveyors, the darknet narcotics bazaar Incognito Market has begun extorting all of its vendors and buyers, threatening to publish cryptocurrency transaction and chat records of users who refuse to pay a fee ranging from $100 to $20,000. The bold mass extortion attempt comes just days after Incognito Market administrators reportedly pulled an "exit scam" that left users unable to withdraw millions of dollars worth of funds from the platform.

Backdoor.Win32.Beastdoor.oq malware suffers from a remote command execution vulnerability.

By Deeba Ahmed Midnight Blizzard (aka Cozy Bear and APT29) originally breached Microsoft on January 12, 2024. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Russian Midnight Blizzard Hackers Breached Microsoft Source Code

A list of topics we covered in the week of March 4 to March 10 of 2024

Content creators are using copyright laws to get nonconsensual deepfakes removed from the web. With the complaints covering nearly 30,000 URLs, experts say Google should do more to help.

By Waqas The teasure trove of highly sentisive data is being sold for just $3,000 in Monero (XMR) cryptocurrency on Breach Forums. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hacker Claims Breaching US Federal Contractor Acuity, Selling ICE, USCIS Data

Plus: An ex-Google engineer gets arrested for allegedly stealing trade secrets, hackers breach the top US cybersecurity agency, and X’s new feature exposes sensitive user data.

By Waqas GoPlus Security secures $4M to build a user-driven Web3 security network. Their AI-powered platform provides real-time threat detection across 20+ blockchains, empowering users with the SecWareX suite for on-chain security. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: GoPlus Security Raises in Private II+ Funding to Fortify Web3 User Safety

This blog provides an update on the nation-state attack that was detected by the Microsoft Security Team on January 12, 2024. As we shared, on January 19, the security team detected this attack on our corporate email systems and immediately activated our response process. The Microsoft Threat Intelligence investigation identified the threat actor as Midnight Blizzard, the Russian state-sponsored actor also known as NOBELIUM.

Public clouds provide geo resilience in addition to being cost-effective when compared to on-premise deployments. Regulated industries such as the Financial Services Industry (FSI) traditionally have been unable to take advantage of public clouds since FSI is highly regulated from a security and resiliency standpoint.Confidential computing (CC) and specifically confidential containers (CoCo) in the cloud provide data protection and integrity capabilities, facilitating the migration of financial workloads to the cloud.In this blog we will look at the Financial Services Industry and how it can d