The goal? To allow taxi drivers in a holding lot waiting to pick up their next fare to jump the line — for a $10 fee.
The Queens men discussed their plans in messages to their Russian counterparts, a federal indictment charged. The defendants credited that nation's hackers with great technical prowess.
'Russian hackers' help two New York men game JFK taxi system - CyberScoop
Starting in at least September 2019, Daniel Abayev and Peter Leyman ran a pay-to-play system for cabbies who could jump the line instead of idling in a holding lot until hailed by a dispatcher, prosecutors with the Southern District of New York said in a statement .
The duo each face two counts of conspiracy to commit computer intrusions, which carry a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.
Russian hackers accessed JFK airport taxi software: Port Authority - The Record by Recorded Future
According to an indictment unsealed on Tuesday , Daniel Abayev and Peter Leyman, both 48, plotted to hack the "dispatch system" starting as early as September 2019.
The two men saw an opportunity in the sometimes hours-long wait times, with Abayez allegedly writing to one Russian hacker in 2019: "I know that the Pentagon is being hacked. So, can't we hack the taxi industry[?]."
Hackers Mined a Single Software Flaw for a Year in NY Cyberattack - The New York Times
The malicious cyberattack that forced Suffolk County government offline for weeks this fall , plunging it back to the pen and paper and fax machines of the 1990s as it fought to stem the threat, began more than a year ago, county officials revealed on Wednesday.
Hackers spent much of the next year at large in the clerk's system, the investigation found, ultimately managing to breach the wider county network in late summer, before they revealed themselves in September, posting ransom notes on the dark web. In response, the county took itself offline.
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As an accidental cyber security journalist, this reporter often uses the term "cyber community", and as a social anthropology graduate I am fascinated by stories of human communities and ideas, and am motivated to write about hacking because I want to know why people do the things they do.
Ransomware Hackers Using New Way to Bypass MS Exchange ProxyNotShell Mitigations
Threat actors affiliated with a ransomware strain known as Play are leveraging a never-before-seen exploit chain that bypasses blocking rules for ProxyNotShell flaws in Microsoft Exchange Server to achieve remote code execution (RCE) through Outlook Web Access ( OWA ).
"The new exploit method bypasses URL rewrite mitigations for the Autodiscover endpoint ," CrowdStrike researchers Brian Pitchford, Erik Iker, and Nicolas Zilio said in a technical write-up published Tuesday.
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Rainbow Six Siege Hackers Flood Game With Naughty Images
The online tactical shooter has seen cheaters spoiling the screens of players with random pop-ups of chickens and memes which ruin their field of view and distracting them, as can be seen in the below video.
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