🔐 Cybersecurity News (November 11, 2023):
1️⃣ Bloomberg: OpenAI, the developer of #chatgpt and its API, faced a recent #ddos attack on November 8th. The incident was attributed to the Russian-backed hacker group Anonymous Sudan. 🤯
2️⃣ Serocu: The Kraken exchange assisted the British police in recovering cryptocurrencies that were stolen from #iota users in 2018. At that time, a Dutch citizen named Vibo Viersma created a malicious website to generate seed phrases requested during the creation of an IOTA wallet. Since all the secret keys were pre-determined by the attacker, he gained access to users' balances and stole over $4 million in cryptocurrency. As part of the investigation, SEROCU seized around £2.4 million ($2.9 million) in various digital assets. 💪💰
3️⃣ Arkham Intelligence: On November 10th, an unknown attacker targeted the Poloniex cryptocurrency exchange. The cumulative losses exceeded $124.5 million in digital assets. 🔒🛡 Will they be reimbursed?
4️⃣ X: GreyNoise analysts warned about the active exploitation of a critical vulnerability in the team collaboration space of Atlassian Confluence. The bug allows bypassing authentication, elevating user privileges, and destroying data on vulnerable servers. According to Rapid7, operators of the Cerber ransomware program have already taken advantage of this. 🧐🔍
5️⃣ Bitwiseinvestments: Bitwise Asset Management stated that it has no connection to the technology startup Bitwise Industries in California, amidst the latter's regulatory issues. The statement came after the #sec accused project leaders of conspiracy to commit fraud. According to the agency, Jake Sobral and Irma Olguin misled investors about the financial condition of the startup. 😮
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