Category: Bleeping Computer

TikTok
02
Aug
2024

US sues TikTok for violating children privacy protection laws

Image: Midjourney​The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against popular social media platform TikTok and its parent company,…

Artificial Intelligence AI
02
Aug
2024

Fake AI editor ads on Facebook push password-stealing malware

Image: Midjourney​A Facebook malvertising campaign targets users searching for AI image editing tools and steals their credentials by tricking them…

DOJ
02
Aug
2024

Cryptonator seized for laundering ransom payments, stolen crypto

U.S. and German law enforcement seized the domain of the crypto wallet platform Cryptonator, used by ransomware gangs, darknet marketplaces,…

DuckDuckGo
02
Aug
2024

DuckDuckGo blocked in Indonesia over porn, gambling search results

Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo has been blocked in Indonesia by its government after citizens reportedly complained about pornographic and online…

CrowdStrike
02
Aug
2024

CrowdStrike sued by investors over massive global IT outage

Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike has been sued by investors who say it provided false claims about its Falcon platform after a bad security…

Tech support scam ring leader gets 7 years in prison, $6M fine
02
Aug
2024

Tech support scam ring leader gets 7 years in prison, $6M fine

The leader of a tech support fraud scheme was sentenced to seven years in prison after tricking at least 6,500 victims and generating…

Authy
02
Aug
2024

Twilio kills off Authy for desktop, forcibly logs out all users

Twilio has finally killed off its Authy for Desktop application, forcibly logging users out of the desktop application. In January, Twilio…

StackExchange abused to spread malicious PyPi packages as answers
01
Aug
2024

StackExchange abused to spread malicious PyPi packages as answers

Threat actors uploaded malicious Python packages to the PyPI repository and promoted them through the StackExchange online question and answer platform. The…

Hackers abuse free TryCloudflare to deliver remote access malware
01
Aug
2024

Hackers abuse free TryCloudflare to deliver remote access malware

Researchers are warning of threat actors increasingly abusing the Cloudflare Tunnel service in malware campaigns that usually deliver remote access trojans…

Robot call
01
Aug
2024

UK takes down major ‘Russian Coms’ caller ID spoofing platform

The United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has shut down Russian Coms, a major caller ID spoofing platform used by…

Sitting Ducks DNS attacks let hackers hijack over 35,000 domains
01
Aug
2024

Sitting Ducks DNS attacks let hackers hijack over 35,000 domains

Threat actors have hijacked more than 35,000 registered domains in so-called Sitting Ducks attacks that allow claiming a domain without…

Cencora
01
Aug
2024

Cencora confirms patient health info stolen in February attack

Pharmaceutical giant Cencora has confirmed that patients’ protected health information and personally identifiable information (PII) was exposed in a February cyberattack. Cencora,…