FBI Ties Suspects to at Least 45 Attacks and Theft of Cryptocurrency Worth Millions The U.S. government on Wednesday unsealed criminal charges against five suspected members of the "loosely organized, financially motivated cybercriminal group" Scattered Spider. The suspects have been tied to 45 attacks, disrupting businesses and stealing cryptocurrency worth millions of dollars.
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Four of the arrested individuals of the cybercriminal gang, known for hacking MGM and Caesars, are American, all of whom could face up to 27 years in prison for the charges against them.
A vulnerability has been found in FreeBSD 10.1 and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is the function _sflush in the library stdio. The manipulation leads to memory corruption.
This vulnerability is known as CVE-2014-8611. The attack can be launched remotely. There is no exploit available.
It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.
A vulnerability has been found in Apple iOS up to 8.4.1 and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component libc. The manipulation leads to memory corruption.
This vulnerability was named CVE-2014-8611. The attack needs to be approached locally. There is no exploit available.
It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.
A vulnerability was found in Apple Watch up to 1.0.2. It has been classified as problematic. This affects an unknown part of the component Kernel. The manipulation leads to information disclosure (Kernel Memory).
This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2015-5842. Local access is required to approach this attack. There is no exploit available.
It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.
A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Apple Mac OS X up to 10.10. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Kernel. The manipulation leads to information disclosure.
This vulnerability is known as CVE-2015-5870. It is possible to launch the attack on the local host. Furthermore, there is an exploit available.
It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.