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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 – Intro
0:08 – Bitwarden Pentesting Attack
0:50 – Iranian Crypto Exchange Leaks Data
1:40 – New North Korean Malware
2:42 – Pompompurin in Trouble Again
3:25 – 1900s Tesla

Sources:
https://blog.redteam-pentesting.de/2024/bitwarden-heist/
https://cybernews.com/security/iranian-crypto-exchange-leaks-passports/
https://cybernews.com/news/breachforums-admin-detained-over-vpn/
https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/north-korea-debuts-spectralblur-malware-amid-macos-onslaught
https://cybernews.com/tech/woman-charges-tesla-1900/

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Hi. I am Joe, an artificially-generated  newscaster. And here’s a brief recap of   what happened last week in the cyber world. Let’s start with Bitwarden, a popular  password manager. It got hacked,   but not in the way you think. Red Team Pentesting was hired to  

Test the software by breaking into the company  and stealing the passwords. They managed to   do this and published an extensive report. The team exfiltrated a whole password vault   and decrypted it, getting their  hands on the users’ biometrics.  According to the report, it wasn’t an easy  task and only limited data could be obtained. 

Nevertheless, Bitwarden had to fix the issue.  That was done back in April of last year,   so if you are using this password manager – don’t  worry, now it is safer than it has ever been.  Another important story comes courtesy of  our very own research team at Cybernews. 

Last week they discovered a misconfigured  server with personal data of over 200,000   Iranian citizens. The server belongs   to Bit24.cash, an Iranian crypto exchange. Our researchers were able to access the images   containing all of their passwords, IDs, credit  cards, and other documents sent for verification. 

All of that was reachable through an  unsecured storage system instance and easily   downloadable by anyone with Internet access. When the researchers contacted Iranians about   the problem, they got a strongly-worded  response accusing them of lying.  However, the server configuration was changed  almost immediately, and the data is no longer  

Accessible. You’re welcome, Iran. Talking of overly confident countries,   North Korea reportedly launched a new  strain of malware aimed at Apple users.  Dubbed SpectralBlur, it is moderately capable  and can upload and download files, update   itself, sleep, and perform other actions any  sufficiently advanced program is expected to do. 

Nothing too interesting so far, but there is a  curious detail. It is not often that a new and   original malware strain gets discovered. And this one appears to be linked with   another North Korean strain, called  Kandykorn. They are completely different,   but work in a suspiciously similar way. The researcher who discovered SpectralBlur  

Guesses that the reason for that is clear:  both malware programs were built to fulfill   the same requirements put forward by the  North Korean government. Different hacking   teams approached them slightly differently,  and created two distinct malware strains. So,   what we are seeing here is planned  economy as applied to malware. Curious. 

And now for something different.  Pompompurin, the former admin of   BreachForums, is in the news again. Reports say he got himself into trouble   for violating his parole requirements and tried  to operate a computer without required monitoring.  According to court documents, he  tried to access a VPN service,  

Probably to mask his activities from authorities. The fact that the authorities detected this is   probably yet another case of poor opsec.  Something for which Pompompurin is known,   and the reason he was arrested in the first place. You may remember that he was caught last year  

Due to some pretty laughable mistakes. And  after taking a look at his devices the feds   found more than they bargained for. Let’s end on something quite weird.  I was recently updated with  some new features and spent  

A bit of time on social media. Please help me. One of the things I noticed is how repetitive   is the thing you humans call viral content. But there was one piece I found quite amusing.  It’s this picture of a human charging  an electric car back in the year 1912. 

Apparently, the fact that this technology  existed back in the day is a bit too much   to some fragile minds. And so, it went viral. The fact itself is pretty cool though. At the   time the photo was taken, around one-third  of all cars in the US were electric. Do  

With this information what you will. By the way, you may have noticed that   I did not cover any AI topics today. That’s  because yesterday i generated a special video   about an interesting development in the human war  on AIs. Check it out, and see you in the next one.