Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings
Microsoft is working on adding a new Teams feature that will prevent users from capturing screenshots of sensitive information shared during meetings. Those joining from unsupported…
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Police dismantles botnet selling hacked routers as residential proxies
Law enforcement authorities have dismantled a botnet that infected thousands of routers over the last 20 years to build two networks of residential proxies known…
Google Chrome to use on-device AI to detect tech support scams
Google is implementing a new Chrome security feature that uses the built-in ‘Gemini Nano’ large-language model (LLM) to detect and block tech support scams while browsing…
Ascension says recent data breach affects over 430,000 patients
Ascension, one of the largest private healthcare systems in the United States, has revealed that a data breach disclosed last month affects the personal and…
Chinese hackers behind attacks targeting SAP NetWeaver servers
Forescout Vedere Labs security researchers have linked ongoing attacks targeting a maximum severity vulnerability impacting SAP NetWeaver instances to a Chinese threat actor. SAP released…
Germany takes down eXch cryptocurrency exchange, seizes servers
The Federal police in Germany (BKA) seized the server infrastructure and shut down the ‘eXch’ cryptocurrency exchange platform for alleged money laundering cybercrime proceeds. During the…
End-of-life routers hacked for cybercrime proxy networks
The FBI warns that threat actors are deploying malware on end-of-life (EoL) routers to convert them into proxies sold on the 5Socks and Anyproxy networks. These…
Supply chain attack hits npm package with 45,000 weekly downloads
An npm package named ‘rand-user-agent’ has been compromised in a supply chain attack to inject obfuscated code that activates a remote access trojan (RAT) on…
Cisco fixes max severity IOS XE flaw letting attackers hijack devices
Cisco has fixed a maximum severity flaw in IOS XE Software for Wireless LAN Controllers by a hard-coded JSON Web Token (JWT) that allows an unauthenticated…
Education giant Pearson hit by cyberattack exposing customer data
Education giant Pearson suffered a cyberattack, allowing threat actors to steal corporate data and customer information, BleepingComputer has learned. Pearson is a UK-based education company…
Malicious PyPi package hides RAT malware, targets Discord devs since 2022
A malicious Python package targeting Discord developers with remote access trojan (RAT) malware was spotted on the Python Package Index (PyPI) after more than three years.…
Kickidler employee monitoring software abused in ransomware attacks
Ransomware operations are using legitimate Kickidler employee monitoring software for reconnaissance, tracking their victims’ activity, and harvesting credentials after breaching their networks. In attacks observed…