06 Aug 2025
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 8/6/2025

Smart Contract Scams | Ethereum Drainers Pose as Trading Bots to Steal Crypto SentinelLABS has identified widespread and ongoing cryptocurrency scams in which actors advertise a crypto trading bot that conceals a smart contract designed to steal the victim’s funds. The scams are marketed through YouTube videos which explain the purported nature of the crypto trading bot and explain how to deploy a smart contract on the Remix Solidity Compiler platform, a web-based integrated development…
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23 Jul 2025
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 7/23/2025

158-year-old company forced to close after ransomware attack precipitated by a single guessed password A UK-based transportation company with a venerable 158-year history has collapsed in the wake of a ransomware attack. Around 500 Northamptonshire-based Knights of Old (KNP) trucks are now off the road, and 700 people have lost their jobs, due to money-grasping cyberattackers, named as ‘Akira’ in a BBC report. The internet-connected criminals are said to have gained access to KNP’s internet…
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22 Mar 2022
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 03/22/2022

Lapsus$ hackers leak 37GB of Microsoft's alleged source code The Lapsus$ hacking group claims to have leaked the source code for Bing, Cortana, and other projects stolen from Microsoft's internal Azure DevOps server. Early Sunday morning, the Lapsus$ gang posted a screenshot to their Telegram channel indicating that they hacked Microsoft's Azure DevOps server containing source code for Bing, Cortana, and various other internal projects. Monday night, the hacking group posted a torrent for a 9 GB…
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