Category: Bleeping Computer

Hacker in a datacenter
04
Jan
2024

Russian hackers wiped thousands of systems in KyivStar attack

The Russian hackers behind a December breach of Kyivstar, Ukraine’s largest telecommunications service provider, have wiped all systems on the…

Microsoft Edge
04
Jan
2024

Hackers hijack govt and business accounts on X for crypto scams

Hackers are increasingly targeting verified accounts on X (formerly Twitter) belonging to government and business profiles and marked with ‘gold’…

Zeppelin ransomware source code sold for $500 on hacking forum
04
Jan
2024

Zeppelin ransomware source code sold for $500 on hacking forum

A threat actor announced on a cybercrime forum that they sold the source code and a cracked version of the…

FTC offers $25,000 prize for detecting AI-enabled voice cloning
04
Jan
2024

FTC offers $25,000 prize for detecting AI-enabled voice cloning

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has started accepting submissions for its Voice Cloning Challenge, a public competition with a…

npm
04
Jan
2024

‘everything’ blocks devs from removing their own npm packages

Over the holidays, the npm package registry was flooded with more than 3,000 packages, including one called “everything,” and others named a…

Mandiant
04
Jan
2024

Mandiant’s account on X hacked to push cryptocurrency scam

The Twitter account of American cybersecurity firm and Google subsidiary Mandiant was hijacked earlier today to impersonate the Phantom crypto…

Mandiant
04
Jan
2024

Mandiant’s Twitter account hacked to push cryptocurrency scam

The Twitter account of American cybersecurity firm and Google subsidiary Mandiant was hijacked earlier today to impersonate the Phantom crypto…

CISA warns of actively exploited bugs in Chrome and Excel parsing library
04
Jan
2024

CISA warns of actively exploited bugs in Chrome and Excel parsing library

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added two vulnerabilities to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, a recently patched…

Nearly 11 million SSH servers vulnerable to new Terrapin attacks
04
Jan
2024

Nearly 11 million SSH servers vulnerable to new Terrapin attacks

Almost 11 million internet-exposed SSH servers are vulnerable to the Terrapin attack that threatens the integrity of some SSH connections….

Data breach at healthcare tech firm impacts 4.5 million patients
04
Jan
2024

Data breach at healthcare tech firm impacts 4.5 million patients

HealthEC LLC, a provider of health management solutions, suffered a data breach that impacts close to 4.5 million individuals who received…

LastPass
04
Jan
2024

LastPass now requires 12-character master passwords for better security

LastPass notified customers today that they are now required to use complex master passwords with a minimum of 12 characters…

Nigerian hacker arrested for stealing $7.5M from charities
03
Jan
2024

Nigerian hacker arrested for stealing $7.5M from charities

A Nigerian national was arrested in Ghana and is facing charges related to business email compromise (BEC) attacks that caused…