Category: Bleeping Computer

SIM cards
16
Mar
2024

Former telecom manager admits to doing SIM swaps for $1,000

A former manager at a telecommunications company in New Jersey pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges for accepting money to perform…

Office
16
Mar
2024

Microsoft announces Office LTSC 2024 preview starting next month

Microsoft announced that Office LTSC 2024, the next Office LTSC release, will enter a commercial preview phase starting next month…

PornHub logo
16
Mar
2024

PornHub now also blocks Texas over age verification laws

PornHub has now added Texas to its blocklist, preventing users in the state from accessing its site in protest of…

16
Mar
2024

Global outage was caused by “configuration change”

McDonald’s has blamed a third-party service provider’s configuration change, not a cyberattack, for the global outage that forced many of…

IMF
15
Mar
2024

International Monetary Fund email accounts hacked in cyberattack

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) disclosed a cyber incident on Friday after unknown attackers breached 11 IMF email accounts earlier…

Cryptocurrency falling
15
Mar
2024

US moves to recover $2.3 million from “pig butchers” on Binance

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) is recovering $2.3 million worth of cryptocurrency linked to a “pig butchering” fraud scheme…

Hacker prison
15
Mar
2024

Admin of major stolen account marketplace gets 42 months in prison

Moldovan national Sandu Boris Diaconu has been sentenced to 42 months in prison for operating E-Root, a major online marketplace…

Stop
15
Mar
2024

Most widely distributed ransomware evolves to evade detection

A new variant of StopCrypt ransomware (aka STOP) was spotted in the wild, employing a multi-stage execution process that involves…

Stop
15
Mar
2024

Most widely distributed ransomware now evades detection

A new variant of StopCrypt ransomware (aka STOP) was spotted in the wild, employing a multi-stage execution process that involves…

SIM card
14
Mar
2024

SIM swappers hijacking phone numbers in eSIM attacks

SIM swappers have adapted their attacks to steal a target’s phone number by porting it into a new eSIM card,…

Google Chrome
14
Mar
2024

Google Chrome gets real-time phishing protection later this month

Google will roll out a Safe Browsing update later this month that will provide real-time malware and phishing protection to…

FTC
14
Mar
2024

Tech support firms Restoro, Reimage fined $26 million for scare tactics

Tech support companies Restoro and Reimage will pay $26 million to settle charges that they used scare tactics to trick…