Category: Bleeping Computer

A confused laptop user
16
May
2023

New ZIP domains sparks debate among cybersecurity experts

Cybersecurity researchers and IT admins have raised concerns over Google’s new ZIP and MOV Internet domains, warning that threat actors…

Windows 11
16
May
2023

Microsoft investigates slow Windows VPN speeds after May updates

Microsoft is investigating major speed issues affecting L2TP/IPsec VPN connections after installing recent Windows 11 updates. According to reports from…

GitHub
16
May
2023

GitHub reveals reason behind last week’s string of outages

GitHub’s Chief Security Officer and SVP of Engineering shared more details today on a string of outages that hit the…

Apple
16
May
2023

Apple blocked 1.7 million apps for privacy, security issues in 2022

Apple’s App Store team prevented more than $2 billion in transactions tagged as potentially fraudulent and blocked almost 1.7 million app…

Specops - Hacker using computer
16
May
2023

Ransomware Prevention – Are Meeting Password Security Requirements Enough

As ransomware attacks continue to wreak havoc on organizations worldwide, many official standards and regulations have been established to address…

Hacker looking at infected devices
16
May
2023

Hackers infect TP-Link router firmware to attack EU entities

A Chinese state-sponsored hacking group named “Camaro Dragon” infects residential TP-Link routers with a custom “Horse Shell” malware used to…

Hacker
16
May
2023

Russian ransomware affiliate charged with attacks on critical infrastructure

The U.S. Justice Department has filed charges against a Russian citizen named Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev (also known as Wazawaka or…

Kid-smartphone
16
May
2023

Parental control app with 5 million downloads vulnerable to attacks

Kiddowares ‘Parental Control – Kids Place’ app for Android is impacted by multiple vulnerabilities that could enable attackers to upload…

Smiley
16
May
2023

Open-source Cobalt Strike port ‘Geacon’ used in macOS attacks

Geacon, a Go-based implementation of the beacon from the widely abused penetration testing suite Cobalt Strike, is being used more and more…

Data
15
May
2023

The new info-stealing malware operations to watch out for

The information-stealing malware market is constantly evolving, with multiple malware operations competing for cybercriminal customers by promoting better evasion and…

The Philadelphia Inquirer
15
May
2023

Philadelphia Inquirer operations disrupted after cyberattack

The Philadelphia Inquirer daily newspaper is working on restoring systems impacted by what was described as a cyberattack that hit…

VirusTotal
15
May
2023

VirusTotal AI code analysis expands Windows, Linux script support

Google has added support for more scripting languages to VirusTotal Code Insight, a recently introduced artificial intelligence-based code analysis feature….