Category: Bleeping Computer

Bitcoin Fog
13
Mar
2024

Bitcoin Fog mixer operator convicted for laundering $400 million

Russian-Swedish national Roman Sterlingov was convicted by a federal jury in Washington, D.C., for operating Bitcoin Fog between 2011 and…

Prison
13
Mar
2024

LockBit ransomware affiliate gets four years in jail, to pay $860k

Russian-Canadian cybercriminal Mikhail Vasiliev has been sentenced to four years in prison by an Ontario court for his involvement in…

Windows
13
Mar
2024

Windows KB5035849 update failing to install with 0xd000034 errors

The KB5035849 cumulative update released during today’s Patch Tuesday fails to install on Windows 10 and Windows Server systems with…

Brave
13
Mar
2024

Sharp increase in installs after iOS DMA update in EU

Brave has seen a sharp increase in users installing its privacy-focused Brave Browser on iPhones after Apple introduced changes to…

Microsoft May 2023 Patch Tuesday fixes 3 zero-days, 38 flaws
13
Mar
2024

Microsoft March 2024 Patch Tuesday fixes 60 flaws, 18 RCE bugs

Today is Microsoft’s March 2024 Patch Tuesday, and security updates have been released for 60 vulnerabilities, including eighteen remote code…

Acer
12
Mar
2024

Acer confirms Philippines employee data leaked on hacking forum

Acer Philippines confirmed that employee data was stolen in an attack on a third-party vendor who manages the company’s employee…

Stanford University
12
Mar
2024

Data of 27,000 people stolen in September ransomware attack

Stanford University says the personal information of 27,000 individuals was stolen in a ransomware attack impacting its Department of Public…

Windows 11
12
Mar
2024

Windows 10 KB5035845 update released with 9 new changes, fixes

Microsoft has released the KB5035845 cumulative update for Windows 10 21H2 and Windows 10 22H2, which includes nine new changes…

Windows 11 KB5026372 cumulative update released with 20 changes
12
Mar
2024

Windows 11 KB5035853 update released, here’s what’s new

Microsoft has released the KB5035853 cumulative update for Windows 11 23H3 and 22H2, with 21 fixes and changes, including fixing…

Google
12
Mar
2024

Google paid $10 million in bug bounty rewards last year

Google awarded $10 million to 632 researchers from 68 countries in 2023 for finding and responsibly reporting security flaws in…

Tor
12
Mar
2024

Tor’s new WebTunnel bridges mimic HTTPS traffic to evade censorship

The Tor Project officially introduced WebTunnel, a new bridge type specifically designed to help bypass censorship targeting the Tor network…

GitHub
12
Mar
2024

Over 12 million auth secrets and keys leaked on GitHub in 2023

GitHub users accidentally exposed 12.8 million authentication and sensitive secrets in over 3 million public repositories during 2023, with the…