Quite a lot has been going on:
Linux Systems are Hackers' Next Targets - Security Boulevard
A new article in Tech Republic is predicting that Linux servers and workstations will be the next big target for hackers. There has been an increase in the tools that are being developed targeting Linux systems, and it’s believed the targets will be Linux systems being used by government and big business.
The article also mentions that for Linux, “ a suite of webshells, backdoors, rootkits and custom-made exploits are readily available ” to cyber criminals and that a successful attack on a Linux system typically has broader consequences than for other platforms.
A Hackers Sequel or Reboot Is Being Actively Considered by Director | Collider
Exclusive: A Return to ‘Hackers’ Is “Being Actively Considered,” Says Director
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“We are, I have to say for the first time in 25 years, and we probably started this conversation a year or two ago, in the aftermath of the 20th anniversary, I'd never even thought it was something that was interesting. Because we'd anticipate something, and then it'd happen. And then it was kind of all pervasive.
“It was a much more simple landscape at the time, in 1995. It's much more complex [now]. It's much more dangerous that it would become outdated almost as soon as the film's released. But there are certain cast members, certainly the guys who work with Chris Nolan, DNEG, they're approached all the time about, ‘Why isn't there [more Hackers]?’ And on the internet, on Twitter and social media, people are asking about that possibility. So, it's being explored.
"Hackers" Director Reflects On Internet Portrayal - Dark Horizons
In the mid 1990s, the internet was a vastly different place – nowhere near as ubiquitous as today and much more primitive in technology, run by a language seemingly beyond many and often portrayed with great difficulty in movies and on television.
Hackers were also seen as a different breed – often seen as young digital anarchists exploring a new frontier and fighting against authority figures as opposed to today where hacking is seen as the domain of entire divisions of government and corporate interests, using various whitehat and blackhat methods to manipulate billions of people in a digital world war of information and misinformation.
And here's another article:
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
Stolen, private data on CCSD students and employees released online by hacker | KLAS
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Two cyber security companies confirmed to 8 News Now that the information a hacker stole from the Clark County School District last month is now published online. These published documents include students and staff’s private information.
Resecurity, a cyber security company that partners with UNLV for research projects, says the hackers stole the data then likely threatened to release it if they weren’t given money.
KuCoin hackers keep moving stolen tokens to the largest DeFi exchange
After a major hack at KuCoin cryptocurrency exchange, cybercriminals continue to move stolen crypto to decentralized exchanges, or DEXes.
According to data from crypto transaction tracking service Whale Alert, KuCoin hackers keep sending thousands of dollars worth of Synthetix Network Token ( SNX ) to Uniswap — the largest decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol by total value locked.
Analysts at Whale Alert have been able to identify at least three ETH addresses containing dirty ETH coming from the KuCoin hack. "I don't think they realize how visible their tracks are," a spokesperson at Whale Alert said.
Hacker steals $15M after degens pile into unreleased Yearn Finance project
The decentralized finance ( DeFi ) community's insatiable appetite for unaudited code has once again ended in tears and the loss of millions.
Eminence, an unfinished "economy for a gaming multiverse" being built by Yearn Finance's Andre 'I test in production' Cronje, was discovered by DeFi sleuths after the developer posted art teasers for the project to Twitter. He then headed to bed on September 28.
Excitement for the upcoming project quickly reached a fever pitch, with the community FOMOing roughly $15 million into the EMN protocol. However, the protocol was quickly exploited and drained … before the hacker bizarrely opted to transfer $8 million of the funds back to Cronje's yearn deployer account by the time the developer had woken up:
Happening on Twitter
In category of detail most likely to not appear in cable coverage of @nytimes story: From 2005 through 2007,… https://t.co/F3wkDdumNN hughhewitt (from California) Sun Sep 27 22:58:52 +0000 2020
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