It would appear that hackers managed to compromise an official Russian Foreign Ministry Twitter account on July 2, and advertised a stolen database for 66 BTC.
I have reached out to both the Russian Government press department and Twitter for further information, but currently, there is no confirmation of how the account ended up being compromised.
As this story is still breaking and little other information is known, I will leave it at that for now and update this article should any other details emerge.
While you're here, how about this:
Call of Duty Warzone: Redditor Makes Alarming Hacker Issue - EssentiallySports
What they found was that the game is literally crawling with cheaters and hackers. According to the data they collected, almost every squad had at least one player using some hack or the other. And it was not just for the high-end lobbies or the lower end ones. Also, by the end of circle four, 80% of the remaining squads have a hacker in almost every match.
As for the extent of advantage these cheats grant the player, here is a list (excluding the obvious ones like aimbots and wallhacks):
Cyber attacks are on the rise, but you can protect yourself from hackers.
As the world adjusts to the work-from-home culture, companies and businesses are facing a new challenge in the form of cyber attacks and ransomware. There has been a dramatic increase, in fact, in the number of cyber attacks over the past few months, affecting both small and large businesses and individuals. Be it payments and shopping or sharing files and accessing VPN, the pandemic has opened up new avenues for scammers and fraudsters to hoodwink individuals and businesses.
How hackers extorted $1.14m from University of California, San Francisco - BBC News
A leading medical-research institution working on a cure for Covid-19 has admitted it paid hackers a $1.14m (£910,000) ransom after a covert negotiation witnessed by BBC News.
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Cyber-security experts say these sorts of negotiations are now happening all over the world - sometimes for even larger sums - against the advice of law-enforcement agencies, including the FBI, Europol and the UK's National Cyber Security Centre.
But there is also a countdown timer ticking down to a time when the hackers either double the price of their ransom, or delete the data they have scrambled with malware.
In case you are keeping track:
Connection discovered between Chinese hacker group APT15 and defense contractor | ZDNet
In a report published today, cyber-security firm Lookout said it found evidence connecting Android malware that was used to spy on minorities in China to a large government defense contractor from the city of Xi'an.
"Activity of these surveillance campaigns has been observed as far back as 2013," Lookout researchers said.
The company attributed this secret surveillance to a hacking group they believe operates on behalf of the Chinese government.
Roblox accounts hacked with pro-Trump messages | ZDNet
Hackers have breached more than 1,800 Roblox accounts and defaced user profiles with messages in support of Donald Trump's reelection campaign.
Users with accounts on the Roblox multiplayer game said that profile pages on the Roblox.com website for followers and people they followed were suddenly defaced over the weekend with a message that read " Ask your parents to vote for Trump this year! #MAGA2020 ."
The first intrusions appear to have started last week, according to messages shared on Reddit, Twitter, and Roblox fan forums.
Anonymous Hackers Target TikTok: 'Delete This Chinese Spyware Now'
Those affiliated with Anonymous take exception to copycat accounts, which is complicated by the lack of any central function. In the aftermath of the Minneapolis Police story, someone affiliated with the group took exception to a Twitter account that was monetising the brand, telling me: "We do not appreciate false flag impersonations. There will be consequences."
So, why does this matter? Well, it's one thing for the U.S. government or even the Indian government to warn hundreds of millions of users about the dangers of TikTok, but various celebrities and influencers have also been swayed by the latest claims and have publicly expressed their concerns. Anonymous is a viral movement that is targeting some of the same user base that has driven TikTok's growth. It is campaigning against TikTok, and that campaign will drive its own viral message.
UCSF pays hackers $1.1M to regain access to medical school servers | FierceHealthcare
Hackers extorted more than $1 million from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) after hitting its medical school servers with ransomware.
On June 3, UCSF IT staff detected a security incident that occurred in a limited part of the UCSF School of Medicine's IT environment a few days earlier, the organization said in a statement on its website.
Friday, the organization posted an update that it negotiated with the hackers to pay a portion of the ransom to regain access to the medical school servers.
