Category: Bleeping Computer

Meta
04
Jan
2023

Meta to fight €390 million fine for breaching EU data privacy laws

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Meta a total of €390 million after finding that it forced Facebook…

Phishing attack
04
Jan
2023

BitRAT malware campaign uses stolen bank data for phishing

Threat actors behind a recent malware campaign have been using the stolen information of bank customers in Colombia as lures…

Russia
04
Jan
2023

Poland warns of attacks by Russia-linked Ghostwriter hacking group

The Polish government is warning of a spike in cyberattacks from Russia-linked hackers, including the state-sponsored hacking group known as…

Flipper Zero
03
Jan
2023

Ongoing Flipper Zero phishing attacks target infosec community

A new phishing campaign is exploiting the increasing interest of security community members towards Flipper Zero to steal their personal…

Microsoft Exchange
03
Jan
2023

Over 60,000 Exchange servers vulnerable to ProxyNotShell attacks

More than 60,000 Microsoft Exchange servers exposed online are yet to be patched against the CVE-2022-41082 remote code execution (RCE)…

Wabtec
03
Jan
2023

Rail giant Wabtec discloses data breach after Lockbit ransomware attack

U.S. rail and locomotive company Wabtec Corporation has disclosed a data breach that exposed personal and sensitive information. Wabtec is…

Synology
03
Jan
2023

Synology fixes maximum severity vulnerability in VPN routers

Taiwan-based NAS maker Synology has addressed a maximum (10/10) severity vulnerability affecting routers configured to run as VPN servers. The…

QUT
03
Jan
2023

Royal ransomware claims attack on Queensland University of Technology

The Royal ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for a recent cyberattack on the Queensland University of Technology and begun to…

2022
03
Jan
2023

BleepingComputer’s most popular cybersecurity stories of 2022

It was a big year for cybersecurity in 2022 with massive cyberattacks and data breaches, innovative phishing attacks, privacy concerns,…

2022
03
Jan
2023

BleepingComputer’s most popular technology stories of 2022

2022 is over, and it’s been filled with a wide assortment of stories ranging from the impact of Russia’s invasion…

Ransomware impacts over 200 govt, edu, healthcare orgs in 2022
03
Jan
2023

Ransomware impacts over 200 govt, edu, healthcare orgs in 2022

Ransomware attacks in 2022 impacted more than 200 hundred larger organizations in the U.S. public sector in the government, educational,…

Ransomware gang cloned victim’s website to leak stolen data
01
Jan
2023

Ransomware gang cloned victim’s website to leak stolen data

The ALPHV ransomware operators have gotten creative with their extortion tactic and, in at least one case, created a replica…