Millions in crypto stolen, Vercel breach, Mastodon DDoS attack, North Korean IT workers at 100s of U.S. companies & ransomware negotiator pleads guilty / Intel Chat [#316]

In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some intel being shared in the LimaCharlie community.

• North Korea-linked hackers are believed to be responsible for a $290 million cryptocurrency theft targeting the Kelp DAO decentralized finance protocol.
• Vercel, the company behind the popular Next.js web framework and a frontend cloud platform for deploying and hosting web applications, has confirmed that it suffered a security breach involving unauthorized access to internal systems.
• The decentralized social media platform Mastodon experienced a major distributed denial-of-service attack that caused a significant outage on its flagship server, Mastodon.social.
• Two U.S. nationals have been sentenced for helping North Korean remote IT workers fraudulently obtain jobs at more than 100 U.S. companies using stolen American identities.
• A former ransomware negotiator has pleaded guilty to conspiring with the BlackCat/ALPHV ransomware group to conduct attacks against U.S. organizations in 2023.

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