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Bitfinex Hacker Gets 5 Years for $10 Billion Bitcoin Heist
- A trio of Indian technologists found a way to enable Apple AirPods Pro 2s’ hearing aid feature for their grandmas by circumventing the location restrictions using a homemade Faraday cage and microwave.
- The US military is testing an AI-enabled machine gun called the Bullfrog designed to auto-target swarms of drones.
- An 18-year-old from California has admitted to making or orchestrating over 375 swatting attacks across the US.
- The US government has recovered more than $10bn in assets following the orchestrated hack on Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange in 2016, for which Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan were arrested after laundering $4.5bn. Lichenstein was this week sentenced to five years in jail.
- O2 and Virgin Media have created an AI system, AI Granny, for answering incoming calls from scammers that responds immediately according to what the scammer is saying.
- Human rights nonprofit Iridia accused Omri Lavie and Shalev Hulio, among others, founders of notorious spyware vendor NSO Group, of hacking crimes in a Catalan court. The claimant is lawyer Andreu Van den Eynde.
- Hackers linked to North Korea have been discovered trying to implant macOS malware to cryptocurrency targets using infrastructure previously used by the country's Lazarus Group.
- Microsoft has spotlighted a trend for using print spoolers as a focal point in cyberattacks. The latest campaigns are often carried out by the Russian state-backed group NOBELIUM.
- Russian hacking group Sandworm, almost blamed for disrupting New York’s healthcare system earlier this week, has now been revealed as behind a number of attacks on US nuclear targets.
- An open-source software community that let anyone review parts of Facebook's code has now closed. The move follows numerous debacles for the social media giant around security and misinformation.
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