Category: Bleeping Computer

Square
11
Sep
2023

Last week’s outage was caused by DNS issue, not a cyberattack

Payment processing firm Square says a widespread outage that took down a large part of the company’s infrastructure last week…

Facebook
11
Sep
2023

Facebook Messenger phishing wave targets 100K business accounts per week

Hackers use a massive network of fake and compromised Facebook accounts to send out millions of Messenger phishing messages to…

A person reading a newspaper
10
Sep
2023

Associated Press warns that AP Stylebook data breach led to phishing attack

The Associated Press is warning of a data breach impacting AP Stylebook customers where the attackers used the stolen data…

Telegram
10
Sep
2023

‘Evil Telegram’ Android apps on Google Play infected 60K with spyware

Several malicious Telegram clones for Android on Google Play were installed over 60,000 times, infecting people with spyware that steals…

Chrome
09
Sep
2023

Google rolls out Privacy Sandbox to use Chrome browsing history for ads

Google has started to roll out its new interest-based advertising platform called the Privacy Sandbox, shifting the tracking of user’s…

Microsoft Teams bug allows malware delivery from external accounts
09
Sep
2023

Microsoft Teams phishing attack pushes DarkGate malware

A new phishing campaign is abusing Microsoft Teams messages to send malicious attachments that install the DarkGate Loader malware. The…

Conti
08
Sep
2023

The Week in Ransomware – September 8th 2023

It started as a slow ransomware news week but slowly picked up pace with the Department of Justice announcing indictments…

Notepad++
08
Sep
2023

Notepad++ 8.5.7 released with fixes for four security vulnerabilities

Notepad++ version 8.5.7 has been released with fixes for multiple buffer overflow zero-days, with one marked as potentially leading to…

Healthcare data
08
Sep
2023

Ragnar Locker claims attack on Israel’s Mayanei Hayeshua hospital

The Ragnar Locker ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for an attack on Israel’s Mayanei Hayeshua hospital, threatening to leak 1…

Dymocks
08
Sep
2023

Dymocks Booksellers suffers data breach impacting 836k customers

Dymocks Booksellers is warning customers their personal information was exposed in a data breach after the company’s database was shared…

Cisco
08
Sep
2023

Cisco warns of VPN zero-day exploited by ransomware gangs

Cisco is warning of a zero-day vulnerability in its Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD)…

Windows 11
07
Sep
2023

Microsoft Paint in Windows 11 gets a background removal tool

Microsoft is rolling out a new version of the Paint application on Windows 11 Insider builds that can remove the…