New ‘YouPorn’ sextortion scam threatens to leak your sex tape
A new sextortion scam is making the rounds that pretends to be an email from the adult site YouPorn, warning that a sexually explicit video…
Category: Bleeping Computer
Chrome extensions can steal plaintext passwords from websites
A team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison has uploaded to the Chrome Web Store a proof-of-concept extension that can steal plaintext passwords from a…
Lazarus hackers deploy fake VMware PyPI packages in VMConnect attacks
North Korean state-sponsored hackers have uploaded malicious packages to the PyPI (Python Package Index) repository, camouflaging one of them as a VMware vSphere connector module…
Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years
Microsoft announced today that it will deprecate WordPad with a future Windows update as it’s no longer under active development, though the company did not…
Exploit released for critical VMware SSH auth bypass vulnerability
Proof-of-concept exploit code has been released for a critical SSH authentication bypass vulnerability in VMware’s Aria Operations for Networks analysis tool (formerly known as vRealize…
Microsoft reminds of Windows 11 21H2 forced updates before end of service
Microsoft has reminded customers that systems running Windows 11 21H2 will be force-updated before the end of servicing next month. Since Windows 11 21H2 devices…
Microsoft retires Visual Studio for Mac, support ends in a year
Microsoft has announced it is retiring Visual Studio for Mac and that support for the latest version, 17.6, will continue for another year, until August 31, 2024.…
Golf gear giant Callaway data breach exposes info of 1.1 million
Topgolf Callaway (Callaway) suffered a data breach at the start of August, which exposed the sensitive personal and account data of more than a million…
hackers accessed info of 500,000
Forever 21 clothing and accessories retailer is sending data breach notifications to more than half a million individuals who had their personal information exposed to…
Sourcegraph website breached using leaked admin access token
AI-powered coding platform Sourcegraph revealed that its website was breached this week using a site-admin access token accidentally leaked online on July 14th. An attacker…
LogicMonitor customers hacked in reported ransomware attacks
Network monitoring company LogicMonitor confirmed today that certain customers of its SaaS platform have fallen victim to cyberattacks linked to ransomware. The company says that…
North Korean hackers behind malicious VMConnect PyPI campaign
North Korean state-sponsored hackers are behind the VMConnect campaign that uploaded to the PyPI (Python Package Index) repository malicious packages, one of them mimicking the…