October Windows Server updates cause Hyper-V VM boot issues
According to customer reports, this month’s Patch Tuesday updates are breaking virtual machines on Hyper-V hosts, causing them to no longer boot and display “failed…
Category: Bleeping Computer
Discord still a hotbed of malware activity — Now APTs join the fun
Discord continues to be a breeding ground for malicious activity by hackers and now APT groups, with it commonly used to distribute malware, exfiltrate data,…
Kansas courts IT systems offline after ‘security incident’
Information systems of state courts across Kansas are still offline after they’ve been disrupted in what the Kansas judicial branch described last Thursday as a…
Hackers exploit critical flaw in WordPress Royal Elementor plugin
A critical severity vulnerability impacting Royal Elementor Addons and Templates up to version 1.3.78 is reported to be actively exploited by two WordPress security teams.…
Russian Sandworm hackers breached 11 Ukrainian telcos since May
The state-sponsored Russian hacking group tracked as ‘Sandworm’ has compromised eleven telecommunication service providers in Ukraine between May and September 2023. That is based on…
CISA, FBI urge admins to patch Atlassian Confluence immediately
CISA, FBI, and MS-ISAC warned network admins today to immediately patch their Atlassian Confluence servers against a maximum severity flaw actively exploited in attacks. Tracked…
Cisco warns of new IOS XE zero-day actively exploited in attacks
Cisco warned admins today of a new and maximum severity zero-day vulnerability in its IOS XE Software that can let attackers gain full administrator privileges…
Fake ‘RedAlert’ rocket alert app for Israel installs Android spyware
Israeli Android users are targeted by a malicious version of the ‘RedAlert – Rocket Alerts’ app that, while it offers the promised functionality, acts as…
Microsoft fixes Windows 10 security update installation issue
Microsoft has resolved a known issue that caused Windows 10 security updates released during this month’s Patch Tuesday to fail with 0x8007000d errors. For systems…
Signal says there is no evidence rumored zero-day bug is real
Signal messenger has investigated rumors spreading online over the weekend of a zero-day security vulnerability related to the ‘Generate Link Previews’ feature, stating that there…
DarkGate malware spreads through compromised Skype accounts
Between July and September, DarkGate malware attacks have used compromised Skype accounts to infect targets through messages containing VBA loader script attachments. According to Trend…
AI algorithm detects MitM attacks on unmanned military vehicles
Professors at the University of South Australia and Charles Sturt University have developed an algorithm to detect and intercept man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks on unmanned military…