Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Ax Sharma Imposters and romance scammers abusing social media to con people is hardly a novel occurrence. The problem seems to have gotten...
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Jira down: Atlassian outage affecting multiple cloud services – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Ax Sharma Multiple Atlassian Jira products are experiencing an ongoing outage as of this morning. Users of Jira Work management, Jira Software,...
Crypto wallet founder loses $125,000 to fake airdrop website – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Ax Sharma A crypto wallet service co-founder shares with the world his agony after losing $125,000 to a crypto scam. The startup...
‘everything’ blocks devs from removing their own npm packages – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Ax Sharma Over the holidays, the npm package registry was flooded with more than 3,000 packages, including one called “everything,” and others named a...
Blockchain dev’s wallet emptied in “job interview” using npm package – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Ax Sharma A blockchain developer shares his ordeal over the holidays when he was approached on LinkedIn by a “recruiter” for a web development...
Yakult Australia confirms ‘cyber incident’ after 95 GB data leak – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Ax Sharma Yakult Australia, manufacturer of a probiotic milk drink, has confirmed experiencing a “cyber incident” in a statement to BleepingComputer. Both...
Lapsus$ hacker behind GTA 6 leak gets indefinite hospital sentence – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Ax Sharma Lapsus$ cybercrime and extortion group member, Arion Kurtaj has been sentenced indefinitely in a ‘secure hospital’ by a UK judge. Kurtaj...
Security researcher stopped at US border for investigating crypto scam – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Ax Sharma Security researcher Sam Curry describes a stressful situation he encountered upon his return to the U.S. when border officials and...
Sony investigates cyberattack as hackers fight over who’s responsible – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Ax Sharma Sony says that it is investigating allegations of a cyberattack this week as different hackers have stepped up to claim responsibility for...
Air Canada discloses data breach of employee and ‘certain records’ – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Ax Sharma Image Credit: John McArthur (Unsplash) Air Canada, the flag carrier and the largest airline of Canada, disclosed a cyber security incident...
Children’s snack recalled after its website caught serving porn – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Ax Sharma Supermarket chain Lidl has been recalling four types of PAW Patrol-themed snacks across the UK. Except, the reason for the...
Yes, there’s an npm package called @(-.-)/env and some others like it – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Ax Sharma Strangely named npm packages like -, @!-!/-, @(-.-)/env, and –hepl continue to exist on the internet’s largest software registry. While not all of...
Rust devs push back as Serde project ships precompiled binaries – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Ax Sharma Serde, a popular Rust (de)serialization project, has decided to ship its serde_derive macro as a precompiled binary. The move has generated a fair...
UK gov keeps repeating its voter registration website is NOT a scam – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Ax Sharma Every year local government bodies or councils across Britain contact residents, asking them to update their voter details on the electoral register if...
Amazon AWS distances itself from Moq amid data collection controversy – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Ax Sharma Amazon AWS has withdrawn its association with open source project Moq after the project drew sharp criticism for its quiet...
Popular open source project Moq criticized for quietly collecting data – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Ax Sharma Open source project Moq (pronounced “Mock”) has drawn sharp criticism for quietly including a controversial dependency in its latest release. Distributed...
Google News, Discover links showing 404 Not Found? Here’s how to fix – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Ax Sharma It happens every once in a while when a story on your Google Discover news feed will mysteriously take you to Google’s 404...
Spotify down: music searches, pages, account signups not working – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Ax Sharma Spotify users are reporting the music streaming service to be down in the last hour. Spotify team is currently investigating the...
Israel’s largest oil refinery website offline after DDoS attack – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Ax Sharma Website of Israel’s largest oil refinery operator, BAZAN Group is inaccessible from most parts of the world as threat actors claim to have...
Apple rejects new name ‘X’ for Twitter iOS app because… rules – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Ax Sharma Mr. Musk may have successfully pushed Twitter’s new name and logo, ‘X’, and even made the vanity domain x.com redirect to...
Twitter’s rebranding to ‘X’ triggers Microsoft Edge security alert – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Ax Sharma Microsoft Edge web browser has been displaying security warnings after Twitter changed its name to ‘X’. Amid its rapid rebranding...
Swiss visa appointments cancelled in UK due to ‘IT incident’ – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Ax Sharma All appointments for Swiss (Schengen) tourist and transit visas have been cancelled across the UK. TLScontact, the Swiss government’s chosen IT...
JumpCloud resets admin API keys amid ‘ongoing incident’ – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Ax Sharma JumpCloud, a US-based enterprise software firm is notifying several customers of an “ongoing incident.” As a caution, the company has...
Twitter’s bot spam keeps getting worse — it’s about porn this time – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Ax Sharma Forget crypto spam accounts, Twitter’s got another problem which involves bots and accounts promoting adult content and infiltrating Direct Messages and...
PyPI Attackers Still At It: Malicious Packages Drop Trojans and Info-stealers – Source: securityboulevard.com
Source: securityboulevard.com – Author: Ax Sharma Hot Topics Survey Surfaces Multiple Cloud Security Contradictions Randall Munroe’s XKCD ‘Bookshelf Sorting’ Web Application Security Vulnerabilities How to Delete...
PyPI temporarily pauses new users, projects amid high volume of malware – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Ax Sharma PyPI, the official third-party registry of open source Python packages has temporarily suspended new users from signing up, and new...
npm packages caught serving TurkoRAT binaries that mimic NodeJS – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Ax Sharma Researchers have discovered multiple npm packages named after NodeJS libraries that even pack a Windows executable that resembles NodeJS but instead...
Airline exposes passenger info to others due to a ‘technical error’ – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Ax Sharma airBaltic, Latvia’s flag carrier has acknowledged that a ‘technical error’ exposed reservation details of some of its passengers to other airBaltic...
Kingston’s SSD firmware has Coldplay lyrics hidden within it – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Ax Sharma What has firmware got to do with pop rock, you ask? That’s the question that crossed a security researcher’s mind...
Surprise! Coldplay lyrics hidden in Kingston SSD firmware – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Ax Sharma What has firmware got to do with pop rock, you ask? That’s the question that crossed a security researcher’s mind...