German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups(krebsonsecurity.com)

314 points by Bender 6 months ago | 154 comments

North Korea making billions from stolen cryptocurrency(abc.net.au)

49 points by stubish 2 years ago | 37 comments

S Korean crypto-boss Do Kwon to be extradited to US(bbc.com)

66 points by ceejayoz 1 year ago | 40 comments

Vigilante Hacker Took Down North Korea's Internet. Now He's Taking Off His Mask(wired.com)

53 points by dylan604 2 years ago | 33 comments

Hacker in Snowflake extortions may be a U.S. soldier(krebsonsecurity.com)

329 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 183 comments

KrebsOnSecurity investigation suggesting the hacker Kiberphant0m, linked to Snowflake customer data extortions, may be a U.S. Army soldier stationed in South Korea.

Many ransomware strains will abort if they detect a Russian keyboard installed (2021)(krebsonsecurity.com)

369 points by air7 1 year ago | 196 comments

KrebsOnSecurity blog post explaining that many ransomware strains refuse to install on Windows systems with Russian or other CIS-language virtual keyboards installed.

What a Hacker Stole from Me(mynoise.net)

355 points by wonger_ 1 year ago | 106 comments

A myNoise blog post by founder Stéphane describing a hacker's attack on the myNoise website, first via code-injection attempts and then a different strategy.

AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42(lantian.pub)

1348 points by xiaoyu2006 4 months ago | 488 comments

Blog post recounting how an AI agent trying to join the DN42 hobbyist network to scan it ran up a $6531.30 AWS bill for its operator.

After 3 Years, I Failed. Here's All My Startup's Code(dylanhuang.com)

468 points by gniting 1 year ago | 210 comments

Blog post by Dylan Huang announcing the shutdown of his developer tools startup Konfig after three years and open-sourcing its entire codebase.

South Korea says AI agents appear to have been used to hack the country's banks(reuters.com)

55 points by thoughtpeddler 20 days ago | 11 comments

Reuters article on South Korea's president saying AI agents appear to have been used in hacks of the country's banks; page showed a device verification screen.

Thief of $90M in seized U.S.-controlled crypto is gov't contractor's son(web3isgoinggreat.com)

321 points by pavel_lishin 9 months ago | 64 comments

A Web3 is Going Just Great entry reporting that the alleged thief of $90M in seized U.S.-government-controlled crypto is the son of a government crypto contractor.

I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'(blog.daviddodda.com)

829 points by DavidDodda 1 year ago | 427 comments

A blog post by David Dodda recounting how a fake job interview attempted to get him to run malicious code on his machine.