Category: Bleeping Computer

Impersonation scammer
20
Mar
2024

FTC warns scammers are impersonating its employees to steal money

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) warned today that scammers are impersonating its employees to steal thousands of dollars from…

Misconfigured Firebase instances leaked 19 million plaintext passwords
20
Mar
2024

Misconfigured Firebase instances leaked 19 million plaintext passwords

Three cybersecurity researchers discovered close to 19 million plaintext passwords exposed on the public internet by misconfigured instances of Firebase,…

Hacker water
20
Mar
2024

White House and EPA warn of hackers breaching water systems

U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan warned governors today that hackers are…

Hacker looking at screens
20
Mar
2024

US Defense Dept received 50,000 vulnerability reports since 2016

The Cyber Crime Center (DC3) of the U.S. Department of Defense says it has reached the milestone of processing its…

Ivanti
19
Mar
2024

CISA shares critical infrastructure defense tips against Chinese hackers

​CISA, the NSA, the FBI, and several other agencies in the U.S. and worldwide warned critical infrastructure leaders to protect…

Hacker arrest
19
Mar
2024

Ukraine arrests hackers trying to sell 100 million stolen accounts

The Ukrainian cyber police, in collaboration with investigators from the national police (ГУНП), have arrested three individuals who are accused…

Apple
19
Mar
2024

Oracle warns that macOS 14.4 update breaks Java on Apple CPUs

Oracle warned Apple customers to delay installing the latest macOS 14.4 Sonoma update because it will break Java on Apple…

Specops header image
19
Mar
2024

Avoid high cyber insurance costs by improving Active Directory security

Organizations are investing more than ever to protect themselves from the looming threat of cybercrime. Insurance broker and risk advisor…

Israel warns of BiBi wiper attacks targeting Linux and Windows
19
Mar
2024

New AcidPour data wiper targets Linux x86 network devices

A new destructive malware named AcidPour was spotted in the wild, featuring data-wiper functionality and targeting Linux x86 IoT and…

China
19
Mar
2024

Chinese Earth Krahang hackers breach 70 orgs in 23 countries

A sophisticated hacking campaign attributed to a Chinese Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group known as ‘Earth Krahang’ has breached 70…

AI Artificial Intelligence
19
Mar
2024

Investment advisers pay $400K to settle ‘AI washing’ charges

Image: Midjourney The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced today that two investment advisers, Delphia (USA) and Global Predictions,…

Windows
18
Mar
2024

Microsoft announces deprecation of 1024-bit RSA keys in Windows

Microsoft has announced that RSA keys shorter than 2048 bits will soon be deprecated in Windows Transport Layer Security (TLS)…