Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Sergiu Gatlan Microsoft is investigating major speed issues affecting L2TP/IPsec VPN connections after installing recent Windows 11 updates. According to reports from...
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GitHub reveals reason behind last week’s string of outages – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Sergiu Gatlan GitHub’s Chief Security Officer and SVP of Engineering shared more details today on a string of outages that hit the...
Apple blocked 1.7 million apps for privacy, security issues in 2022 – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Sergiu Gatlan Apple’s App Store team prevented more than $2 billion in transactions tagged as potentially fraudulent and blocked almost 1.7 million app...
Russian ransomware affiliate charged with attacks on critical infrastructure – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Sergiu Gatlan The U.S. Justice Department has filed charges against a Russian citizen named Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev (also known as Wazawaka, Uhodiransomwar, m1x,...
Philadelphia Inquirer operations disrupted after cyberattack – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Sergiu Gatlan The Philadelphia Inquirer daily newspaper is working on restoring systems impacted by what was described as a cyberattack that hit...
VirusTotal AI code analysis expands Windows, Linux script support – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Sergiu Gatlan Google has added support for more scripting languages to VirusTotal Code Insight, a recently introduced artificial intelligence-based code analysis feature....
WhatsApp now lets you lock chats with a password or fingerprint – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Sergiu Gatlan Meta is now rolling out ‘Chat Lock,’ a new WhatsApp privacy feature allowing users to block others from accessing their...
Capita warns customers they should assume data was stolen – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Sergiu Gatlan Business process outsourcing firm Capita is warning customers to assume that their data was stolen in a cyberattack that affected...
Discord discloses data breach after support agent got hacked – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Sergiu Gatlan Discord is notifying users of a data breach that occurred after the account of a third-party support agent was compromised....
CISA warns of critical Ruckus bug used to infect Wi-Fi access points – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Sergiu Gatlan The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned today of a critical remote code execution (RCE) flaw in the...
Microsoft patches bypass for recently fixed Outlook zero-click bug – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Sergiu Gatlan Microsoft fixed a security vulnerability this week that could be used by remote attackers to bypass recent patches for a...
Brightly warns of SchoolDude data breach exposing credentials – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Sergiu Gatlan U.S. tech company and Siemens subsidiary Brightly Software is notifying customers that their personal information and credentials were stolen by...
Babuk code used by 9 ransomware gangs to encrypt VMWare ESXi servers – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Sergiu Gatlan An increasing number of ransomware operations are adopting the leaked Babuk ransomware source code to create Linux encryptors targeting VMware...
Google brings dark web monitoring to all U.S. Gmail users – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Sergiu Gatlan Google announced today that all Gmail users in the United States will soon be able to use the dark web...
YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Sergiu Gatlan YouTube is running an experiment asking some users to disable their ad blockers or pay for a premium subscription, or...
Cybersecurity firm Dragos discloses cybersecurity incident, extortion attempt – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Sergiu Gatlan Industrial cybersecurity company Dragos today disclosed what it describes as a “cybersecurity event” after a known cybercrime gang attempted to...
GitHub now auto-blocks token and API key leaks for all repos – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Sergiu Gatlan GitHub is now automatically blocking the leak of sensitive information like API keys and access tokens for all public code...
Food distribution giant Sysco warns of data breach after cyberattack – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Sergiu Gatlan Sysco, a leading global food distribution company, has confirmed that its network was breached earlier this year by attackers who...
Microsoft issues optional fix for Secure Boot zero-day used by malware – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Sergiu Gatlan Microsoft has released security updates to address a Secure Boot zero-day vulnerability exploited by BlackLotus UEFI malware to infect fully...
FBI nukes Russian Snake data theft malware with self-destruct command – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Sergiu Gatlan Cybersecurity and intelligence agencies from all Five Eyes member nations took down the infrastructure used by the Snake cyber-espionage malware...
FBI seizes 13 more domains linked to DDoS-for-hire services – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Sergiu Gatlan cyberstress.org seizure banner (DOJ) The U.S. Justice Department announced today the seizure of 13 more domains linked to DDoS-for-hire platforms,...
Microsoft enforces number matching to fight MFA fatigue attacks – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Sergiu Gatlan Microsoft has started enforcing number matching in Microsoft Authenticator push notifications to fend off multi-factor authentication (MFA) fatigue attacks. In...
Microsoft: Iranian hacking groups join Papercut attack spree – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Sergiu Gatlan Microsoft says Iranian state-backed hackers have joined the ongoing assault targeting vulnerable PaperCut MF/NG print management servers. These groups are tracked...
Z-Library eBook site disrupted again by FBI domain seizures – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Sergiu Gatlan The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) continues to disrupt the world’s largest shadow eBook library, Z-Library, by seizing more domains...
New Android updates fix kernel bug exploited in spyware attacks – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Sergiu Gatlan Android security updates released this month patch a high-severity vulnerability exploited as a zero-day to install commercial spyware on compromised...
ALPHV gang claims ransomware attack on Constellation Software – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Sergiu Gatlan Canadian diversified software company Constellation Software confirmed on Thursday that some of its systems were breached by threat actors who...
Microsoft testing improved Explorer details pane, Windows Spotlight – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Sergiu Gatlan Microsoft has released a new Windows 11 dev build that modernizes the File Explorer details pane, improves the Windows Spotlight...
Drone goggles maker claims firmware sabotaged to ‘brick’ devices – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Sergiu Gatlan Orqa, a maker of First Person View (FPV) drone racing goggles, claims that a contractor introduced code into its devices’...
Windows admins can now sign up for ‘known issue’ email alerts – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Sergiu Gatlan Microsoft announced today that Windows admins can now choose to be emailed when new known issues are added to the Windows release...
Police dismantles Try2Check credit card verifier used by dark web markets – Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Sergiu Gatlan The U.S. Department of Justice announced today the indictment of Russian citizen Denis Gennadievich Kulkov, suspected of running a stolen...