The Shadow Brokers—the mysterious person or group that over the past eight months has leaked a gigabyte worth of the National Security Agency’s weaponized software exploits—just published its most significant release yet. Friday’s dump contains potent exploits and hacking tools that target most versions of Microsoft Windows and evidence of sophisticated hacks on the SWIFT banking system of several banks across the world.
Long time security blogger and journalist, Brian Krebs, is reporting that Shoney’s restaurants is rumored to be at the center of another card breach.
In what appears to be the result of an FBI raid, the website ‘LeakedSource.com’ has been taken down as of about mid-January. It was a site we and other professionals referred to in order to find email addresses which might have been compromised.
The U.S. Justice Department today unsealed indictments against four men accused of hacking into a half-billion Yahoo email accounts. Two of the men named in the indictments worked for a unit of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) that serves as the FBI’s point of contact in Moscow on cybercrime cases.