Category: Bleeping Computer

Hacker looking at screens
06
Jan
2023

Hackers use CAPTCHA bypass to make 20K GitHub accounts in a month

South African threat actors known as ‘Automated Libra’ has been improving their techniques to make a profit by using cloud…

WhatsApp
06
Jan
2023

WhatsApp adds proxy support to help bypass Internet blocks

Starting today, WhatsApp allows users to connect via proxy servers due to Internet shutdowns or if their governments block the…

School
06
Jan
2023

ChatGPT banned in NYC schools over learning impact concerns

The NYC Department of Education has banned the use of ChatGPT by students and teachers in New York City schools…

Key
06
Jan
2023

Bitdefender releases free MegaCortex ransomware decryptor

Antivirus company Bitdefender has released a decryptor for the MegaCortex ransomware family, making it possible for victims of the once…

Rackspace
06
Jan
2023

Customer email data accessed in ransomware attack

Rackspace revealed on Thursday that attackers behind last month’s incident accessed some of its customers’ Personal Storage Table (PST) files…

Apple
05
Jan
2023

France fines Apple for targeted App Store ads without consent

France’s data protection authority (CNIL) has fined Apple €8,000,000 ($8.5M) for collecting user data for targeted advertising on the App…

SpyNote Android malware infections surge after source code leak
05
Jan
2023

SpyNote Android malware infections surge after source code leak

The Android malware family tracked as SpyNote (or SpyMax) has had a sudden increase in detections in the final quarter of…

circleci
05
Jan
2023

CircleCI warns of security breach — rotate your secrets!

CircleCI, a software development service has disclosed a security incident and is urging users to rotate their secrets. The CI/CD platform…

Bluebottle hackers used signed Windows driver in attack on banks
05
Jan
2023

Bluebottle hackers used signed Windows driver in attacks on banks

A signed Windows driver has been used in attacks on banks in French-speaking countries, likely from a threat actor that…

slack
05
Jan
2023

Slack’s private GitHub code repositories stolen over holidays

Slack suffered a security incident over the holidays affecting some of its private GitHub code repositories. The immensely popular Salesforce-owned IM app…

Windows logo over a red splash
05
Jan
2023

Hackers abuse Windows error reporting tool to deploy malware

Hackers are abusing the Windows Problem Reporting (WerFault.exe) error reporting tool for Windows to load malware into a compromised system’s…

Windows Server
05
Jan
2023

Windows Server 2012 reaches end of support in October

Microsoft has reminded customers that the extended support for all editions of Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2…