Netgear WNR614 flaws allow device takeover, no fix available
Researchers found half a dozen vulnerabilities of varying severity impacting Netgear WNR614 N300, a budget-friendly router that proved popular among home users and small businesses.…
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Frontier warns 750,000 of a data breach after extortion threats
Frontier Communications is warning 750,000 customers that their information was exposed in a data breach after an April cyberattack claimed by the RansomHub ransomware operation.…
Malicious VSCode extensions with millions of installs discovered
A group of Israeli researchers explored the security of the Visual Studio Code marketplace and managed to “infect” over 100 organizations by trojanizing a copy…
Cylance confirms data breach linked to ‘third-party’ platform
Cybersecurity company Cylance confirmed the legitimacy of data being sold on a hacking forum, stating that it is old data stolen from a “third-party platform.”…
23andMe data breach under investigation in UK and Canada
Privacy authorities in Canada and the United Kingdom have launched a joint investigation to assess the scope of sensitive customer information exposed in last year’s…
London hospitals face blood shortage after Synnovis ransomware attack
England’s NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) has issued an urgent call to O Positive and O Negative blood donors to book appointments and donate after last…
Exploit for critical Veeam auth bypass available, patch now
A proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for a Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager authentication bypass flaw tracked as CVE-2024-29849 is now publicly available, making it urgent that admins apply…
Brave says May 2024 was its biggest growth month ever
Brave browser experienced its most significant growth month ever in May 2024, now used by more than 78.95 million monthly users, up 7.3%. The privacy-focused web browser…
Malicious VSCode extensions with millions of installs discovered
A group of Israeli researchers explored the security of the Visual Studio Code marketplace and managed to “infect” over 100 organizations by trojanizing a copy…
Malicious VSCode extensions with 229M installs found on Microsoft marketplace
A group of Israeli researchers explored the security of the Visual Studio Code marketplace and managed to “infect” over 100 organizations by trojanizing a copy…
New York Times source code stolen using exposed GitHub token
Internal source code and data belonging to The New York Times was leaked on the 4chan message board after being stolen from the company’s GitHub repositories…
DDoS attacks target EU political parties as elections begin
Hacktivists are conducting DDoS attacks on European political parties that represent and promote strategies opposing their interests, according to a report by Cloudflare. The European…