Episode 279 - Hot Fridges, Binance Cold Wallets, Ransomware Apology, France Internet Tax, Halloween Stories

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Hackers turned European supermarket fridges into ovens, remotely flipping refrigeration controls into a 50°C defrost loop across Belgium, Luxembourg, Sweden and Estonia, weeks after a similar wave hit France.

https://securityaffairs.com/202260/security/another-fridge-cyberattack-hits-european-supermarkets-this-time-in-belgium-luxembourg-sweden-and-estonia.html

 

A fake job interview and a booby-trapped coding test led to the biggest crypto heist ever: $6.3B drained from Binance, which the FBI pins on North Korea’s TraderTraitor.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/binance-says-fake-job-interview-led-to-63-billion-crypto-heist/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/binance-links-63-billion-crypto-theft-to-compromised-devops-laptop/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fbi-links-63-billion-binance-crypto-heist-to-north-korean-hackers/

 

Ransomware crew BYOD knocked UNM Hospital, New Mexico’s only Level I trauma center, onto ambulance diversion, then “apologized,” offered free decryptors and promised patients up to $2,500 each. UNM warns the offer may be a scam.

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/hackers-insist-they-have-morals-after-hospital-cyberattack-and-offer-victims-2500-3422948/

 

France’s National Assembly narrowly backed a €0.055-per-gigabyte tax on companies that send data to French users, and nonprofit VideoLAN says it could cost VLC over €1M a year.

https://x.com/intcyberdigest/status/2116243714209124557

https://www.trendingtopics.eu/france-gigabyte-tax-vlc/

 

Halloween costume roundup and the best tales from the trick-or-treat trenches.

 

Dad Joke of the Week (DJOW)

 

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