Emergency Services Lines DDoS’d in Texas
Officials have sentenced a cybercriminal who manipulated a bug via the Twitter app to continuously dial 911, which spread to several hundred individuals across multiple states. By tweeting out a malicious link to his followers, anyone who clicked on it was subjected to an endless loop of dialing the local emergency services lines, until the phone carriers were able to shut down the calls.
Magento Database Flaw Exposes User Data
A flaw was discovered that can trigger code to be executed in an online shop’s database that intercepts a customer’s credit card information and resends it to the attacker’s server. This is likely the first time such an attack has been written in SQL and in addition, the code trigger responds to every new customer order by reinserting itself into the site’s source code, if it’s unable to detect the malware in any portion of the page.
IDF Phones Flooded With Malware
Researchers identified a significant number of IDF-related phones were infected with a piece of malware known as ViperRAT, which is capable of extracting and sending any sensitive data on the device. The most common method of infection stems from malicious messaging apps that request administrative permissions for the device, to then gather data and send it to a C&C server.
East Idaho Counties Victims of Ransomware
Two Idaho counties were targets of cyberattacks that left one county still struggling to regain its main systems. Teton County was fortunate to have only their main website defaced, which was promptly restored to normal. Meanwhile, Bingham County was less fortunate to have found ransomware on several computers that then infected their backup servers, bringing all current operations to a halt. The attack was likely initiated from a malicious email attachment that launched an executable file.
Zerocoin Source Code Typo Leads to Breach
Zerocoin made it known that they suffered a breach that allowed an attacker to steal over $500,000 worth of the cryptocurrency. The vulnerability was simply one additional character that caused a bug that, when exploited, allowed the attacker to make one transaction but receive the money repeatedly. The attacker apparently created multiple accounts to hide the influx of the multiple transactions, and had cashed out the majority of the stolen coins by the time the Zerocoin team noticed the variations.
