16 Nov 2023
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 11/16/2023

FBI Director: FISA Section 702 warrant requirement a 'de facto ban'  FBI director Christopher Wray made yet another impassioned plea to US lawmakers to kill a proposed warrant requirement for so-called "US person queries" of data collected via the Feds' favorite snooping tool, FISA Section 702. This controversial amendment to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act will expire at the end of December unless Congress reauthorizes it. As the deadline draws near, and reform looms, the FBI and other…
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15 Nov 2023
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 11/15/2023

Ethereum feature abused to steal $60 million from 99K victims  Malicious actors have been abusing Ethereum's 'Create2' function to bypass wallet security alerts and poison cryptocurrency addresses, which led to stealing $60,000,000 worth of cryptocurrency from 99,000 people in six months. This is reported by Web3 anti-scam specialists at 'Scam Sniffer,' who observed several cases of in-the-wild exploitation of the function, in some cases losses incurred by one individual reaching up to $1.6 million.    The…
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