McDonald’s IT systems outage impacts restaurants worldwide
McDonald’s restaurants are suffering global IT outages that prevent employees from taking orders and accepting payments, causing some stores to close for the day. The…
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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 and will be generally available…
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 age verification laws. Texas’ age…
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 its fast-food restaurants to close.…
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 this year. This international financial…
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 that victimized at least 37…
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 that sold access to hacked…
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 shellcodes to evade security tools.…
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 shellcodes to evade security tools.…
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, a rewritable SIM chip present…
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 all Chrome users, without compromising…
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 their customers into paying for…