COINHOARDER criminal gang made an estimated $50 million with a Bitcoin phishing campaign

Haythem Elmir

Researchers with Cisco Talos have monitored a bitcoin phishing campaign conducted by a criminal gang tracked as Coinhoarder that made an estimated $50 million by exploiting Google AdWords. Researchers with Cisco Talos have monitored a bitcoin phishing campaign for several months with the help of the Ukraine Cyberpolice. The gang, tracked as Coinhoarder, has […]

Hackers who stole $300 million, hacked Citibank & Nasdaq are jailed

Haythem Elmir

Two Russian Hackers Charged with Running America’s Largest Credit-Card Information Hacking Campaign. Two Russian citizens, the 37-year old Muscovites Vladimir Drinkman and 34-year old Dmitriy Smilianets have received strict sentences. Reportedly, the two Russian hackers collectively carried out what is assumed to be the largest credit-card involving hack attack in the history of […]

OpenSSL adds TLS 1.3 (Transport Layer Security) supports in the alpha version of OpenSSL 1.1.1 that was announced this week.

Haythem Elmir

OpenSSL adds TLS 1.3 supports in the alpha version of OpenSSL 1.1.1 that was announced this week. TLS protocol was designed to allow client/server applications to communicate over the Internet in a secure way preventing message forgery, eavesdropping, and tampering. “OpenSSL 1.1.1 is currently in alpha. OpenSSL 1.1.1 pre release 1 has now been […]