Apple warns customers targeted in recent spyware attacks
Apple warned customers last week that their devices were targeted in a new series of spyware attacks, according to the French national Computer Emergency Response…
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Microsoft investigates Exchange Online outage in North America
Microsoft is working to resolve an ongoing Exchange Online outage affecting customers throughout North America, blocking their access to emails. “We’re investigating an issue affecting…
U.S. Senator accuses Microsoft of “gross cybersecurity negligence”
U.S. Senator Ron Wyden has sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requesting the agency to investigate Microsoft for failing to provide adequate…
Panama Ministry of Economy discloses breach claimed by INC ransomware
Panama’s Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) has disclosed that one of its computers may have been compromised in a cyberattack.. The government noted that…
The Buyer’s Guide to Browser Extension Management
While most enterprises lock down endpoints, harden networks, and scan for vulnerabilities, one of the riskiest vectors often slips through unmonitored: browser extensions. These small,…
Microsoft adds malicious link warnings to Teams private chats
Microsoft Teams will automatically alert users when they send or receive a private message containing links that are tagged as malicious. Microsoft will introduce these…
Akira ransomware exploiting critical SonicWall SSLVPN bug again
The Akira ransomware gang is actively exploiting CVE-2024-40766, a year-old critical-severity access control vulnerability, to gain unauthorized access to SonicWall devices. The hackers are leverging the security…
New VMScape attack breaks guest-host isolation on AMD, Intel CPUs
A new Spectre-like attack dubbed VMScape allows a malicious virtual machine (VM) to leak cryptographic keys from an unmodified QEMU hypervisor process running on modern…
New VMScape attack breaks guest-host isolation on AMD, Intel CPUs
A new Spectre-like attack dubbed VMScape allows a malicious virtual machine (VM) to leak cryptographic keys from an unmodified QEMU hypervisor process running on modern…
DDoS defender targeted in 1.5 Bpps denial-of-service attack
A DDoS mitigation service provider in Europe was targeted in a massive distributed denial-of-service attack that reached 1.5 billion packets per second. The attack originated from thousands…
Cursor AI editor lets repos “autorun” malicious code on devices
A weakness in the Cursor code editor exposes developers to the risk of automatically executing tasks in a malicious repository as soon as it’s opened. Threat…
Microsoft waives fees for Windows devs publishing to Microsoft Store
Microsoft announced that, starting today, individual Windows developers will no longer have to pay for publishing their applications on the Microsoft Store. The company said…