McDonald's Netherlands pulls an AI-generated Christmas ad, made by ad agency TBWA\NEBOKO with film production company The Sweetshop, after social media backlash
There's just one issue: pretty much everybody hates it. — This year, McDonald's decided to get in on the corporate slopfest …
Study: unintended electromagnetic radiation from second-gen Starlink satellites is stronger than first-gen, causing 32x more interference with radio telescopes
Radio waves from Elon Musk's growing network of satellites are blocking scientists' ability to peer into the universe, according to researchers in the Netherlands.
Europol says police in Germany, the UK, the US, and others took down botnets spreading ransomware via infected emails, arrested four, and seized 2,000+ domains
International law enforcement and partners have joined forces. Europol : Largest ever operation against botnets hits dropper malware ecosystem Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer : Police seize over 100 ma...
The Netherlands says Chinese state-sponsored hackers broke into the Dutch Ministry of Defence's internal network in 2023, using a Fortinet vulnerability
Dutch media: Chimera, a China-linked hacker group, infiltrated Dutch semiconductor giant NXP's network between 2017 and 2020 and stole chip designs and more
The full extent of the security breach is unknown. — Chimera, a Chinese-linked hacker group, has infiltrated the network … Mastodon: @malwarejake@infosec.exchange and @dyckron@mstdn.ca Forums: r/chi...
The FBI led an effort to dismantle the Qakbot botnet, which ransomware gangs used as an infection vector for years, on August 25 after infiltrating its network
It was live on 700k endpoints (!) which should give you an idea of the scale of cybersecurity woes at many orgs (it's still really, really bad out there). X: Nick Carr / @itsreallynick : payments.txt ...
Sources: Russia's GRU hacking unit Sandworm is led by Evgenii Serebriakov, who was indicted for a 2018 close-range cyberespionage operation in the Netherlands
Thursday, March 16, 2023 // (IG): BB // Cyber-Roundup// Coffee for Bob LinkedIn: David Mauro : For those following cyber crime and cyber warfare, Andy Greenberg details a phenomenal connection and fin...
Profile of Edwin Robbe, who hacked the Netherlands' largest telecom KPN as a teenager and cost the company €3M, before being found dead in South Korea
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Profile of Edwin Robbe, who hacked the Netherlands' largest telecom KPN as a teenager and cost the company €3M, before being found dead in South Korea
Edwin Robbe had a troubled life, but found excitement and purpose by joining an audacious community of hackers.