US fines man $9.9 million for thousands of disturbing robocalls
A U.S. federal court has issued a $9,918,000 penalty and an injunction against an individual named Scott Rhodes for making thousands of “spoofed” robocalls to…
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Panera Bread experiencing nationwide IT outage since Saturday
Since Saturday, U.S. food chain giant Panera Bread has been experiencing a nationwide outage that has impacted its IT systems, including online ordering, POS systems,…
US sanctions crypto exchanges used by Russian darknet market, banks
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned three cryptocurrency exchanges for working with OFAC-designated Russian dark web markets and banks.…
US sanctions APT31 hackers behind critical infrastructure attacks
The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned a Wuhan-based company used by the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) as cover in attacks against U.S. critical infrastructure organizations. The…
CISA urges software devs to weed out SQL injection vulnerabilities
CISA and the FBI urged executives of technology manufacturing companies to prompt formal reviews of their organizations’ software and implement mitigations to eliminate SQL injection (SQLi) security…
Hackers poison source code from largest Discord bot platform
The Top.gg Discord bot community with over 170,000 members has been impacted by a supply-chain attack aiming to deliver malware that steals sensitive information. The…
New MFA-bypassing phishing kit targets Microsoft 365, Gmail accounts
Cybercriminals have been increasingly using a new phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform named ‘Tycoon 2FA’ to target Microsoft 365 and Gmail accounts and bypass two-factor authentication (2FA) protection.…
Microsoft to shut down 50 cloud services for Russian businesses
Microsoft plans to limit access to over fifty cloud products for Russian organizations by the end of March as part of the sanctions requirements against…
Opera sees big jump in EU users on iOS, Android after DMA update
Opera has reported a substantial 164% increase in new European Union users on iOS devices after Apple introduced a new feature to comply with the…
Microsoft releases emergency fix for Windows Server crashes
Microsoft has released emergency out-of-band (OOB) updates to fix a known issue causing Windows domain controllers to crash after installing the March 2024 Windows Server…
Russian hackers target German political parties with WineLoader malware
Researchers are warning that a notorious hacking group linked to Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) is targeting political parties in Germany for the first time,…
Darknet marketplace Nemesis Market seized by German police
The German police have seized infrastructure for the darknet Nemesis Market cybercrime marketplace in Germany and Lithuania, disrupting the site’s operation. The Federal Criminal Police…