Category: Bleeping Computer

Telegram
23
Jan
2025

Telegram captcha tricks you into running malicious PowerShell scripts

Threat actors on X are exploiting the news around Ross Ulbricht to direct unsuspecting users to a Telegram channel that…

Cisco
22
Jan
2025

Cisco warns of denial of service flaw with PoC exploit code

Cisco has released security updates to patch a ClamAV denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability, which has proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code. Tracked as…

Hacker in a school
22
Jan
2025

PowerSchool hacker claims they stole data of 62 million students

The hacker who breached education tech giant PowerSchool claimed in an extortion demand that they stole the personal data of…

Conduent
22
Jan
2025

Conduent confirms cybersecurity incident behind recent outage

American business services giant and government contractor Conduent confirmed today that a recent outage resulted from what it described as…

Pwn2Own Tokyo 2025
22
Jan
2025

Hackers exploit 16 zero-days on first day of Pwn2Own Automotive 2025

On the first day of Pwn2Own Automotive 2025, security researchers exploited 16 unique zero-days and collected $382,750 in cash awards….

VPN Protected
22
Jan
2025

IPany VPN breached in supply-chain attack to push custom malware

South Korean VPN provider IPany was breached in a supply chain attack by the “PlushDaemon” China-aligned hacking group, who compromised…

Windows 11
22
Jan
2025

Windows 11 24H2 now also offered to all eligible Windows 10 PCs

Microsoft says Windows 11 24H2 has entered the broad deployment phase and is now available to all seekers via Windows Update. The…

Specops chatbot header
22
Jan
2025

Use this AI chatbot prompt to create a password-exclusion list

One of the most successful forms of password breaches occurs when hackers simply guess commonly used passwords. And while organizations…

Cloudflare mitigated a record-breaking 5.6 Tbps DDoS attack
22
Jan
2025

Cloudflare mitigated a record-breaking 5.6 Tbps DDoS attack

The largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack to date peaked at 5.6 terabits per second and came from a Mirai-based botnet with…

Homebrew
21
Jan
2025

Fake Homebrew Google ads target Mac users with malware

Hackers are once again abusing Google ads to spread malware, using a fake Homebrew website to infect Macs and Linux…

Gamer
21
Jan
2025

Microsoft previews Game Assist in-game browser in Edge Stable

​Microsoft has announced that Game Assist, its recently unveiled in-game browser, is now also available in preview for Microsoft Edge…

Bitbucket
21
Jan
2025

Bitbucket services “hard down” due to major worldwide outage

Bitbucket is investigating a massive outage affecting Atlassian Bitbucket Cloud customers worldwide, with the company saying its cloud services are “hard down.” This…