Category: Bleeping Computer

H&R Block
24
Feb
2024

FTC sues H&R Block over deceptive ‘free’ online filing ads

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sued tax preparation giant H&R Block over the company’s deceptive “free” online filing advertising…

Google
24
Feb
2024

Google Pay app shutting down in US, users have till June to move funds

Google is retiring the standalone Pay app in the United States. Users have until June 4 to transfer the balance…

Insomniac Games
23
Feb
2024

Insomniac Games alerts employees hit by ransomware data breach

Sony subsidiary Insomniac Games is sending data breach notification letters to employees whose personal information was stolen and leaked online…

Windows 11 AI
23
Feb
2024

Windows Photos gets AI magic eraser on Windows 10 and later

Microsoft’s Windows Photos app now has its own generative erase tool that enables users to replace unwanted objects with AI-generated…

U-Haul
23
Feb
2024

U-Haul says hacker accessed customer records using stolen creds

U-Haul has started informing customers that a hacker used stolen account credentials to access an internal system for dealers and…

LockBit
23
Feb
2024

New ScreenConnect RCE flaw exploited in ransomware attacks

Update February 23, 07:02 EST: Sophos published a report today saying that the ransomware payloads they spotted were built using the LockBit…

Healthcare data
23
Feb
2024

UnitedHealth confirms Optum hack behind US healthcare billing outage

Healthcare giant UnitedHealth Group confirmed that its subsidiary Optum was forced to shut down IT systems and various services after…

LockBit ransomware secretly building next-gen encryptor before takedown
23
Feb
2024

LockBit ransomware secretly building next-gen encryptor before takedown

LockBit ransomware developers were secretly building a new version of their file encrypting malware, dubbed LockBit-NG-Dev – likely to become…

Massive Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile mobile outage impacts US customers
23
Feb
2024

Massive AT&T outage impacts US mobile subscribers

Update: AT&T has restored wireless service to all affected customers but the cause has not been disclosed Tens of thousands of…

Avast
23
Feb
2024

FTC to ban Avast from selling browsing data for advertising purposes

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will order Avast to pay $16.5 million and ban the company from selling the…

Wi-Fi 7
23
Feb
2024

Microsoft has started testing Wi-Fi 7 support in Windows 11

Microsoft has started testing support for Wi-Fi 7 in Windows 11, which offers multi-gigabit speeds and improved throughput, latency, and…

Windows 11
23
Feb
2024

Microsoft now force installing Windows 11 23H2 on eligible PCs

Microsoft has started force installing Windows 11 23H2 on eligible devices that have reached or are close to their end-of-servicing…