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Retribution by hacking back might make you feel better, but experts urge caution and explain why it’s a bad idea. Image: xijian / Getty Images Throughout history, acts of revenge, retaliation, retribution and reciprocation have been used to deter further deeds by a perceived wrongdoer. Michael McCullough, a professor of psychology at the University of Miami, suggested to Jennifer Breheny Wallace in her Washington Post article Why getting even may make you feel worse in…

Europol, along with Italian and Spanish police, dismantled a major crime organization linked to the Italian Mafia that focuses on online frauds. Europol, along with law enforcement agencies in Italy and Spain, has dismantled a major crime group linked to the Italian Mafia that was involved in online fraud, drug trafficking, money laundering, and property crime. According to the press release published by Europol, the illegal profit of the crime ring is estimated at about…

The United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defense has apologized for sending an email that exposed the data of more than 250 Afghan interpreters who worked for British forces.  The impacted interpreters are seeking to be relocated to the UK either from Afghanistan, where many are currently in hiding from the Taliban, which seized power in August, or from another country to which they have relocated.  The email – in which the interpreters’ email addresses, names, and some linked profile images were…

The University of Minnesota has announced a new center that aims to ensure that medical devices are safe and secured against cybersecurity threats.  The Center for Medical Device Cybersecurity (CMDC) was created after members of the medical device manufacturing industry called for a collaborative hub to facilitate discovery, outreach, and workforce training in device security.  CMDC will foster university-industry-government collaborations focusing on developing new education and training, technologies, and research to address potential threats to the cybersecurity…

The various threat intelligence stories in this iteration of the Anomali Cyber Watch discuss the following topics: APT, Cobalt Strike, ELF, Data Leak, MSHTML, Remote Code Execution, Windows Subsystem, VBScript, and Vulnerabilities. The IOCs related to these stories are attached to Anomali Cyber Watch and can be used to check your logs for potential malicious activity. Figure 1 – IOC Summary Charts. These charts summarize the IOCs attached to this magazine and provide a glimpse…

“Wrapped” Bitcoin worth more than $12m has been stolen from the decentralized finance protocol pNetwork.  The cross-chain project announced the theft of 277 BTC on September 19 via Twitter, ascribing the hack to a codebase vulnerability.  The theft was executed on Binance Smart Chain, which featured in the biggest ever DeFi heist in history – the $610m Poly Network hack that took place in August. pNetwork supports multiple blockchains, including Ethereum, xDAI, EOS, Polygon, Binance Smart Chain, Telos and…