Category: Bleeping Computer

Lock over a picture of a city
04
Mar
2023

The Week in Ransomware – March 3rd 2023

This week was highlighted by a massive BlackBasta ransomware attack targeting DISH Network and taking down numerous subsidiaries, including SlingTV…

Oakland
03
Mar
2023

Play ransomware claims disruptive attack on City of Oakland

The Play ransomware gang has taken responsibility for a cyberattack on the City of Oakland that has disrupted IT systems…

Credit cards
03
Mar
2023

BidenCash market leaks over 2 million stolen credit cards for free

A carding marketplace known as BidenCash has leaked online a free database of 2,165,700 debit and credit cards in celebration…

Royal ransomware
03
Mar
2023

FBI and CISA warn of increasing Royal ransomware attack risks

CISA and the FBI have issued a joint advisory highlighting the increasing threat behind ongoing Royal ransomware attacks targeting many…

Brave
03
Mar
2023

Brave Search launches AI-powered summarizer in search results

Brave Search has incorporated a new AI-powered tool named Summarizer, which gives a summarized answer to an inputted question before…

Biden
03
Mar
2023

White House releases new U.S. national cybersecurity strategy

The Biden-Harris administration today released its national cybersecurity strategy that focuses on shifting the burden of defending the country’s cyberspace…

Data theft
03
Mar
2023

Hatch Bank discloses data breach after GoAnywhere MFT hack

Fintech banking platform Hatch Bank has reported a data breach after hackers stole the personal information of almost 140,000 customers…

Microsoft Windows
03
Mar
2023

Microsoft releases Windows security updates for Intel CPU flaws

Microsoft has released out-of-band security updates for ‘Memory Mapped I/O Stale Data (MMIO)’ information disclosure vulnerabilities in Intel CPUs. The…

BlackLotus is the first UEFI bootkit to bypass Secure Boot on fully-patched Windows 11
02
Mar
2023

BlackLotus bootkit bypasses UEFI Secure Boot on patched Windows 11

The developers of the BlackLotus UEFI bootkit have improved the malware with Secure Boot bypass capabilities that allow it to…

Chick-fil-A restaurant
02
Mar
2023

Chick-fil-A confirms accounts hacked in months-long “automated” attack

American fast food chain Chick-fil-A has confirmed that customers’ accounts were breached in a months-long credential stuffing attack, allowing threat…

Panda
02
Mar
2023

Chinese hackers use new custom backdoor to evade detection

The Chinese cyber espionage hacking group Mustang Panda was seen deploying a new custom backdoor named ‘MQsTTang’ in attacks starting…

Emails
02
Mar
2023

Australian woman arrested for email bombing a government office

The Australian Federal Police arrested a woman in Werrington, Sydney, for allegedly email bombing the office of a Federal Member…