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Millions of people were affected by cybercrimes this year. Billions of dollars stolen. Terabytes of data leaked on the Dark Web. And amongst these cyberattacks, five cases stand amongst the rest, the worst of them all, malicious and destructive. These are the top 5 biggest cybercrimes of 2022.

⚔️ Russian-Ukraine cyber warfare

Cyber warfare has been on the rise since day one of the Ukraine-Russia cyber war. Throughout this year, Ukraine’s internet security was rigorously tested with relentless cyberattacks from various hackers. Ukraine had to deal with a Russian-affiliated hacker group targeting over 1,500 government, public and private entities. Fend off hacking attacks on Telecom operators and server providers. Avoid phishing attacks aimed at government agencies. And even dig for malware in translation software that seemed completely innocent. But the worst thing is, those are only select cases out of more than 200 separate instances of Russia hacking Ukraine throughout the war.

A colossal retaliation from Ukraine is undeniably the attack of the hacker collective Anonymous. Russia suffered heavy blows from the hackers, which managed to infiltrate Russian Sberbank, leaking a lot of sensitive data. Other threat actors have sown chaos in Russian infrastructure for a while, through data leaks, DDoS attacks, and even taking advantage of people’s fear of mobilization. Some big IT companies lost employee data due to smart phishing attacks, promising “mobilization delays”. One hacker collective even managed to cause an explosion on the Hydro-power plant, causing massive economical damage, but no casualties.

🌎 Costa Rica vs Conti Ransomware gang

In April of 2022, a ransomware gang known by the name of their software - “Conti”, launched a devastating attack against the country of Costa Rica. Capable of accessing the government’s network, Conti ransomware affected over 1TB of sensitive data, with the majority of backups encrypted by ransomware. Hackers demanded 10 million dollars in return for releasing the data. The damage dealt by the threat actors has exceeded this number tenfold, estimating 60 million dollars on average for each day the foreign trade and tax platforms were paralyzed. Even the entire country's treasury went offline - causing massive civil unrest on top of monetary losses. In the end, Costa Rica ended up not paying a single cent to the Conti cyberattack, and since then, the group was on a decline.

₿ Crypto.com hack - $34+ millions stolen

Crypto-trading platform Crypto.com has announced that over 500 of their users were hacked. Through these hacked accounts, hackers managed to steal cryptocurrencies worth somewhere between 34 and 35 million USD according to various sources. Usually, it would be impossible for someone to initiate a trade through Crypto.com without possessing a 2-Factor authenticator. However, hackers managed to somehow disable or bypass this security measure, or it wasn’t working properly in the first place. In any case, the Crypto.com hacker went through the security and left with the haul untouched: he was never caught.

💻 A teenager breached Microsoft

This March, a threat actor managed to breach a corporate account of a single Microsoft employee, gaining access to incomplete source code of Bing, Bing Maps, and Cortana. Only through fast response by the Microsoft personnel was the scope of the attack reduced. Still, the hacker must not have been too experienced, or was too complacent, as he left enough traces to get tracked down. A 16-year-old teenager left unnamed for legal reasons, was identified to belong to the group of Lapsus hackers. Further along the way, the hacker's identity got leaked by a competitor hacker group, revealing him to be a citizen of Oxford, England.

🔌 1TB of data stolen from NVIDIA

This year, NVIDIA suffered at the hands of the hacker group Lapsus. NVIDIA got acquainted with them almost a month before the Lapsus Microsoft hack. This time, however, the attack was very well planned, and most importantly - had a direct incentive. It has to do with the crypto mining limiter on NVIDIA RTX 3000-series graphic cards. Lapsus disliked this new change enough to breach NVIDIA servers on February 25th, stealing trade secrets, GPU chipset files, and more - over 1TB worth of confidential information. Lapsus threatened to leak all the data unless NVIDIA promises to remove mining limiters and make all future GPU drivers open-source. Naturally, NVIDIA didn’t even bother complying with such ridiculous demands.

00:00 Overview of 5 biggest cyber attacks of 2022
00:45 Russian-Ukraine cyberwar
03:17 Costa Rica vs Conti: Ransomware
05:13 Crypto.com Hacked
06:25 Microsoft Lapsus$ Hack
07:23 NVIDIA Lapsus$ Hack
08:54 What to expect for cyber crime in 2023

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Anonymous Sudan claims to originate from the war-torn nation of Sudan, boasting a string of cyber-attacks against big tech giants such as Microsoft, LinkedIn & OpenAI, and even the European banking system. Yet, are they really what they appear to be? The mission of this video is to find who is behind the mask of Anonymous Sudan, and understand what those people are capable of.

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Thursday evening, the Anonymous collective declared a cyberwar against Russia as Putin's forces closed in on the Ukrainian capital. And it looks like they were serious.
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On Friday evening, Anonymous claimed they managed to breach the database belonging to the Russian Ministry of Defence. The group's actions appear to be part of a growing trend that is seeing a growing number of cyber soldiers take to the newest front in the war against Russia.

Anonymous posted the database online and made it accessible to anyone. "Hackers all around the world: target Russia in the name of #anonymous let them know we do not forgive, we do not forget. Anonymous owns fascists, always," the group tweeted.

It seems that the database contains officials' phone numbers, emails, and passwords. Twitter users seem excited about the news and continue discussing how they could use them to harm Putin's regime.

"Sign them up for GOP and Trump fundraising emails. That will be enough to drive them all crazy," one user suggested.

Many encouraged each other to send spam and malware to Russians. The original tweet announcing the leak and containing the link to the database was taken down because it "violated the Twitter Rules". Anonymous updated their tweet by removing the link.

Many activists took Ukraine's calls on the hacker underground to defend against Russia to heart. Earlier today, Anonymous claimed responsibility for taking down Russia's most prominent websites used to spread Kremlin propaganda. Even Pornhub had its say by blocking Russian users and greeting them with the Ukrainian flag and a message of support.

Such actions represent an escalation in cyberwarfare, prompted by Vladimir Putin's shocking decision to launch a full-scale attack on Ukraine this week. Cybersecurity analysts are predicting an upsurge in defense spending across Europe for both digital and conventional warfare, while patriotic or idealistic hackers sympathetic to either side are also mobilizing.

Cybersecurity firms such as disBalancer and Hacken have set up an app that can be easily downloaded, which they say allows people to conduct cyber attacks against Russian sites, while another anonymous group has developed a website tool that allows anyone with an internet connection to participate in distributed denial of service (DDos) attacks against Putin's regime.

Given NATO's apparent reluctance to get involved directly in the fighting in Ukraine for fear of escalating to total - and possibly nuclear - war, it is perhaps unsurprising that the wider European conflict is being more aggressively prosecuted by digital means.

To that end, Russia has also opened a cyber front. Ukraine's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) said the hackers were using password-stealing emails to break into Ukrainian soldiers' email accounts and using the compromised address books to send further malicious messages.

And recently, the BBC reported that reputable cybersecurity analysts in Russia are turning 'rogue' by night, assembling their teams to conduct patriotic hacking attacks against enemies of the Kremlin. "I want to help beat Ukraine from my computer," one such actor told the BBC recently, after he and his team conducted DDos attacks on Ukrainian government websites.

In a blog post, the Conti group said it was announcing its "full support" for the government of President Vladimir Putin.

"If anybody will decide to organize a cyberattack or any war activities against Russia, we are going to use our all possible resources to strike back at the critical infrastructures of an enemy," the Conti blog post read.

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