Category: Bleeping Computer

Criminal holding a phone
03
Dec
2024

Police seize Matrix encrypted chat service after spying on criminals

An international law enforcement operation codenamed ‘Operation Passionflower’ has shut down MATRIX, an encrypted messaging platform used by cybercriminals to…

Firefox
03
Dec
2024

Mozilla really wants you to set Firefox as default Windows browser

Google undoubtedly dominates the desktop browser market, while Microsoft Edge has shown notable growth in recent times. However, Firefox continues…

DDoS
03
Dec
2024

Korea arrests CEO for adding DDoS feature to satellite receivers

South Korean police have arrested a CEO and five employees for manufacturing over 240,000 satellite receivers pre-loaded or later updated…

Hydra
02
Dec
2024

Russia sentences Hydra dark web market leader to life in prison

Russian authorities have sentenced the leader of the criminal group behind the now-closed dark web platform Hydra Market to life…

Phishing hook
02
Dec
2024

Novel phishing campaign uses corrupted Word documents to evade security

A novel phishing attack abuses Microsoft’s Word file recovery feature by sending corrupted Word documents as email attachments, allowing them…

Linux
02
Dec
2024

BootKitty UEFI malware exploits LogoFAIL to infect Linux systems

The recently uncovered ‘Bootkitty’ Linux UEFI bootkit exploits the LogoFAIL flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-40238, to target computers running on vulnerable…

Firefox
02
Dec
2024

Mozilla really wants you to easily set Firefox as default Windows browser

Google undoubtedly dominates the desktop browser market, while Microsoft Edge has shown notable growth in recent times. However, Firefox continues…

Phishing hook
02
Dec
2024

Novel phising campaign uses corrupted Word documents to evade security

A novel phishing attack abuses Microsoft’s Word file recovery feature by sending corrupted Word documents as email attachments, allowing them…

Chrome
02
Dec
2024

Google Chrome’s AI feature lets you quickly check website trustworthiness

Google Chrome’s upcoming feature uses AI to provide a summary of reviews from independent websites about the store or website…

Android
30
Nov
2024

SpyLoan Android malware on Google play installed 8 million times

A new set of 15 SpyLoan apps with over 8 million installs was discovered on Google Play, targeting primarily users…

Microsoft 365
29
Nov
2024

New Rockstar 2FA phishing service targets Microsoft 365 accounts

A new phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform named ‘Rockstar 2FA’ has emerged, facilitating large-scale adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) attacks to steal Microsoft 365 credentials….

Windows Server
29
Nov
2024

New Windows Server 2012 zero-day gets free, unofficial patches

Free unofficial security patches have been released through the 0patch platform to address a zero-day vulnerability introduced over two years…