Category: Bleeping Computer

Windows 10
11
Feb
2025

Windows 10 KB5051974 update force installs new Microsoft Outlook app

Microsoft has released the KB5051974 cumulative update for Windows 10 22H2 and Windows 10 21H2, which automatically installs the new…

Fortinet
11
Feb
2025

Fortinet warns of new zero-day exploited to hijack firewalls

Fortinet warned today that attackers are exploiting another authentication bypass zero-day bug in FortiOS and FortiProxy to hijack Fortinet firewalls…

Police arrest
11
Feb
2025

Police arrests 2 Phobos ransomware suspects, seizes 8Base sites

A global law enforcement operation targeting the Phobos ransomware gang has led to the arrest of two suspected hackers in…

SonicWall firewall exploit lets hackers hijack VPN sessions, patch now
11
Feb
2025

SonicWall firewall exploit lets hackers hijack VPN sessions, patch now

Security researchers at Bishop Fox have published complete exploitation details for the CVE-2024-53704 vulnerability that allows bypassing the authentication mechanism…

Russian hackers
11
Feb
2025

Russian military hackers deploy malicious Windows activators in Ukraine

The Sandworm Russian military cyber-espionage group is targeting Windows users in Ukraine with trojanized Microsoft Key Management Service (KMS) activators…

US indicts 8Base ransomware operators for Phobos encryption attacks
11
Feb
2025

US indicts 8Base ransomware operators for Phobos encryption attacks

The U.S. Justice Department announced the names of two Phobos ransomware affiliates arrested yesterday in Thailand, charging them on 11…

Hackers in data center
11
Feb
2025

US sanctions LockBit ransomware’s bulletproof hosting provider

​The United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom have sanctioned Zservers, a Russia-based bulletproof hosting (BPH) services provider, for supplying…

Hacker
11
Feb
2025

Over 12,000 KerioControl firewalls exposed to exploited RCE flaw

Over twelve thousand GFI KerioControl firewall instances are exposed to a critical remote code execution vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-52875. KerioControl…

Sky ECC
10
Feb
2025

Sky ECC encrypted service distributors arrested in Spain, Netherlands

Four distributors of the encrypted communications service Sky ECC, used extensively by criminals, were arrested in Spain and the Netherlands….

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
10
Feb
2025

Hacker pleads guilty to SIM swap attack on US SEC X account

Today, an Alabama man pleaded guilty to hijacking the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) account on X in a…

Apple
10
Feb
2025

Apple fixes zero-day exploited in ‘extremely sophisticated’ attacks

Apple has released emergency security updates to patch a zero-day vulnerability that the company says was exploited in targeted and…

Newspaper printer
10
Feb
2025

Cyberattack disrupts Lee newspapers’ operations across the US

Lee Enterprises, one of the largest newspaper groups in the United States, says a cyberattack that hit its systems caused…