Category: Bleeping Computer

North Korean hacker
05
Nov
2025

US sanctions North Korean bankers linked to cybercrime, IT worker fraud

The U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on two North Korean financial institutions and eight individuals involved in laundering cryptocurrency stolen…

Windows
05
Nov
2025

October Windows updates trigger BitLocker recovery

Microsoft has warned that some systems may boot into BitLocker recovery after installing the October 2025 Windows security updates. BitLocker…

WordPress
05
Nov
2025

Hackers exploit WordPress plugin Post SMTP to hijack admin accounts

Threat actors are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in the Post SMTP plugin installed on more than 400,000 WordPress sites,…

Apache OpenOffice
05
Nov
2025

Apache OpenOffice disputes data breach claims by ransomware gang

The Apache Software Foundation disputes claims that its OpenOffice project suffered an Akira ransomware attack, after the threat actors claimed…

Malicious Android apps on Google Play downloaded 42 million times
04
Nov
2025

Malicious Android apps on Google Play downloaded 42 million times

Hundreds of malicious Android apps on Google Play were downloaded more than 40 million times between June 2024 and May…

Microsoft Defender
04
Nov
2025

Microsoft removing Defender Application Guard from Office

Microsoft plans to remove Defender Application Guard from Office by December 2027, starting with the February 2026 release of Office version…

Nikkei
04
Nov
2025

Media giant Nikkei reports data breach impacting 17,000 people

Image: Nikkei/Masayuki Kozono Japanese publishing giant Nikkei announced earlier today that its Slack messaging platform had been compromised, exposing the personal…

Data breach at major Swedish software supplier impacts 1.5 million
04
Nov
2025

Data breach at major Swedish software supplier impacts 1.5 million

The Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection (IMY) is investigating a cyberattack on IT systems supplier Miljödata that exposed data belonging…

Browser threats
04
Nov
2025

The Top 3 Browser Sandbox Threats That Slip Past Modern Security Tools

In today’s enterprise environments, the browser has quietly become the most targeted and most overlooked application in the modern security…

Arrest
04
Nov
2025

Police arrests suspects linked to €600 million crypto fraud ring

European law enforcement authorities have arrested nine suspected money launderers who set up a cryptocurrency fraud network that stole over…

Russia
04
Nov
2025

Russian hackers abuse Hyper-V to hide malware in Linux VMs

The Russian hacker group Curly COMrades has been abusing Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization technology in Windows to bypass endpoint detection and…

Windows
04
Nov
2025

Windows 10 update bug triggers incorrect end-of-support alerts

​Microsoft says that installing the October 2025 updates may trigger incorrect end-of-support warnings on Windows 10 systems with active security…