Category: Bleeping Computer

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24
Feb
2023

TELUS investigating leak of stolen source code, employee data

Canada’s second-largest telecom, TELUS is investigating a potential data breach after a threat actor shared samples online of what appears to…

Russia
24
Feb
2023

Ukraine says Russian hackers backdoored govt websites in 2021

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) says Russian state hackers have breached multiple government websites this week using…

Forsage
24
Feb
2023

Forsage DeFi platform founders indicted for $340 million scam

A Federal grand jury in the District of Oregon has indicted four Russian nationals founders of Forsage decentralized finance (DeFi) cryptocurrency…

Microsoft Exchange
23
Feb
2023

Microsoft urges Exchange admins to remove some antivirus exclusions

Microsoft says admins should remove some previously recommended antivirus exclusions for Exchange servers to boost the servers’ security. As the company explained,…

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23
Feb
2023

Americans lost $8.8 billion to fraud in 2022 after 30% surge

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) revealed today that Americans lost almost $8.8 billion to various types of scams in…

Dota
23
Feb
2023

Valve “honeypot” used to ban 40,000 Dota 2 players using cheat

Game developer Valve has announced that it permanently banned more than 40,000 accounts for using cheating software to gain an unfair…

Hacking
23
Feb
2023

Russian malware dev behind NLBrute hacking tool extradited to US

A Russian malware developer accused of creating and selling the NLBrute password-cracking tool was extradited to the United States after…

Fruit giant Dole suffers ransomware attack impacting operations
23
Feb
2023

Fruit giant Dole suffers ransomware attack impacting operations

Dole Food Company, one of the world’ largest producers and distributors of fresh fruit and vegetables, has announced that it is dealing…

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23
Feb
2023

What is the Best Pen Testing Schedule for Your Development Cycle?

Pen testing is an essential part of secure application development; it helps find vulnerabilities before they can be exploited, ensures…

Hydrochasma hackers target medical research labs, shipping firms
23
Feb
2023

Hydrochasma hackers target medical research labs, shipping firms

A previously unknown threat actor named Hydrochasma has been targeting shipping and medical laboratories involved in COVID-19 vaccine development and treatments….

Fortinet
23
Feb
2023

Hackers now exploit critical Fortinet bug to backdoor servers

Threat actors are targeting Internet-exposed Fortinet appliances with exploits targeting CVE-2022-39952, an unauthenticated file path manipulation vulnerability in the FortiNAC…

Google paid $12 million in bug bounties to security researchers
23
Feb
2023

Google paid $12 million in bug bounties to security researchers

Google last year paid its highest bug bounty ever through the Vulnerability Reward Program for a critical exploit chain report…