German police have confiscated 50,000 bitcoin worth $2.17 billion in the country's 'most extensive' cryptocurrency seizure ever, it said in a statement on Tuesday.
"This is the most extensive seizure of bitcoins by law enforcement authorities in the Federal Republic of Germany to date," police in the city of Dresden said.
The investigation was supported by the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), the FBI and a Munich-based forensic IT expert company, it said.
Following a recent and highly disruptive cyberattack on telecom carrier Orange España the cybersecurity community needs to rethink its approach to safeguarding the digital identity of staff involved in network engineering and IT infrastructure management. Orange España is the second-largest mobile operator in Spain. In early January, an attacker going by the alias ‘Snow’ hijacked Orange España’s RIPE Network Coordination Centre (NCC) account. RIPE is Europe’s regional Internet registry. After this initial breach, Snow sabotaged the telecommunications firm’s border gateway protocol (BGP) and resource public key infrastructure (RPKI) configurations.
Hundreds of compromised credentials of customers of RIPE, APNIC, AFRINIC, and LACNIC available on the dark web, Resecurity warns.
This article describes a minor security flaw in the SSH authentication protocol that can lead to unexpected private infrastructure disclosure. It also provides a PoC written in Python.
The U.S. government in recent months launched an operation to fight a pervasive Chinese hacking operation that successfully compromised thousands of internet-connected devices, according to two Western security officials and one person familiar with the matter.
The Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation sought and received legal authorization to remotely disable aspects of the Chinese hacking campaign, the sources told Reuters.
Energy management and automation giant Schneider Electric suffered a Cactus ransomware attack leading to the theft of corporate data, according to people familiar with the matter.
