Category: Bleeping Computer

Healthcare data
23
Feb
2024

UnitedHealth confirms Optum hack behind US healthcare billing outage

Healthcare giant UnitedHealth Group confirmed that its subsidiary Optum was forced to shut down IT systems and various services after…

LockBit ransomware secretly building next-gen encryptor before takedown
23
Feb
2024

LockBit ransomware secretly building next-gen encryptor before takedown

LockBit ransomware developers were secretly building a new version of their file encrypting malware, dubbed LockBit-NG-Dev – likely to become…

Massive Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile mobile outage impacts US customers
23
Feb
2024

Massive AT&T outage impacts US mobile subscribers

Update: AT&T has restored wireless service to all affected customers but the cause has not been disclosed Tens of thousands of…

Avast
23
Feb
2024

FTC to ban Avast from selling browsing data for advertising purposes

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will order Avast to pay $16.5 million and ban the company from selling the…

Wi-Fi 7
23
Feb
2024

Microsoft has started testing Wi-Fi 7 support in Windows 11

Microsoft has started testing support for Wi-Fi 7 in Windows 11, which offers multi-gigabit speeds and improved throughput, latency, and…

Windows 11
23
Feb
2024

Microsoft now force installing Windows 11 23H2 on eligible PCs

Microsoft has started force installing Windows 11 23H2 on eligible devices that have reached or are close to their end-of-servicing…

Bitwarden adds passkey support to log into web password vaults
22
Feb
2024

Bitwarden’s new auto-fill option adds phishing resistance

The Bitwarden open-source password management service has introduced a new inline auto-fill menu that addresses the risk of user credentials being…

LockBit
22
Feb
2024

ScreenConnect servers hacked in LockBit ransomware attacks

Attackers are exploiting a maximum severity authentication bypass vulnerability to breach unpatched ScreenConnect servers and deploy LockBit ransomware payloads on…

Massive Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile mobile outage impacts US customers
22
Feb
2024

Massive AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile outage impacts US customers

Tens of thousands of U.S. customers from Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T are complaining Thursday morning about the lack of wireless…

New SSH-Snake malware steals SSH keys to spread across the network
22
Feb
2024

New SSH-Snake malware steals SSH keys to spread across the network

A threat actor is using an open-source network mapping tool named SSH-Snake to look for private keys undetected and move laterally…

Hackers abuse Google Cloud Run in massive banking trojan campaign
22
Feb
2024

Hackers abuse Google Cloud Run in massive banking trojan campaign

Security researchers are warning of hackers abusing the Google Cloud Run service to distribute massive volumes of banking trojans like…

Microsoft
22
Feb
2024

Microsoft expands free logging capabilities after May breach

Microsoft has expanded free logging capabilities for all Purview Audit standard customers, including U.S. federal agencies, six months after disclosing…