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Researcher Finds North Korean Hackers Breached 1,640 Networks

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  • Researcher Finds North Korean Hackers Breached 1,640 Networks Worldwide A researcher found North Korean hackers had footholds in 1,640 networks worldwide.

    • Organizations worldwide were affected by the intrusions.
    • North Korean hackers gained footholds in 1,640 networks.
    • About half of the intrusions were serious breaches.
    • Researcher Vangelis Stykas monitored the hackers' infrastructure for nearly two years. ๐Ÿ“Ž Coverage: wired.com ยท ๐Ÿ‘ via @agreenberg@infosec.exchange
  • Ill Bloom links active wallet drains to a 12-year-old CryptoJS entropy flaw Coinspect found attackers exploiting weak CryptoJS randomness to drain crypto wallets.

    • Users of multiple crypto wallet applications and networks were affected.
    • Wallet recovery phrases generated with weak CryptoJS randomness were vulnerable to prediction.
    • Attackers exploited predictable seeds to identify and drain accounts with on-chain activity.
    • The flaw existed for 12 years, was fixed in CryptoJS six years ago, and affected downstream wallet code. ๐Ÿ“„ Source: illbloom.org ยท ๐Ÿ“Ž Coverage: coinspect.com ยท ๐Ÿ‘ via r/netsec

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