NASA hacker loses again

Researchers bought an expired WHOIS server domain for $20 and quickly received millions of WHOIS queries.

Most significant among the arrests was of a 42-year-old Chinese national, who had credentials to prolific hacking operations' access services and $850,000 in cryptocurrency assets in addition to laptops and mobile devices.

Vulnerabilities in WordPress and other web apps have been leveraged by attackers to facilitate the deployment of the open-source web shell ASPXspy that would then allow the compromise of IIS servers with the malware.