Man charged in US for running ‘Monopoly’ darknet drug market
A 33-year-old man from Serbia has been extradited from Austria to the United States to face charges of running a criminal darknet narcotics marketplace called…
Category: Bleeping Computer
LastPass users furious after being locked out due to MFA resets
LastPass password manager users have been experiencing significant login issues starting early May after being prompted to reset their authenticator apps. The company first announced…
The Week in Ransomware – June 23rd 2023
It was a relatively quiet week regarding ransomware news, with the BlackCat ransomware gang extorting Reddit and the ongoing MOVEit Transfer data breaches being the…
University of Manchester confirms data theft in recent cyberattack
Image: Ax Sharma The University of Manchester finally confirmed that attackers behind a cyberattack disclosed in early June had stolen data belonging to alums and…
CISA orders agencies to patch iPhone bugs abused in spyware attacks
Today, CISA ordered federal agencies to patch recently patched security vulnerabilities exploited as zero-days to deploy Triangulation spyware on iPhones via iMessage zero-click exploits. The…
FBI seizes BreachForums after arresting its owner Pompompurin in March
U.S. law enforcement today seized the clear web domain of the notorious BreachForums (aka Breached) hacking forum three months after apprehending its owner Conor Fitzpatrick…
MOVEIt breach impacts GenWorth, CalPERS as data for 3.2 million exposed
PBI Research Services (PBI) has suffered a data breach with three clients disclosing that the data for 4.75 million people was stolen in the recent…
Fortinet fixes critical FortiNAC remote command execution flaw
Cybersecurity solutions company Fortinet has updated its zero-trust access solution FortiNAC to address a critical-severity vulnerability that attackers could leverage to execute code and commands.…
NSA shares tips on blocking BlackLotus UEFI malware attacks
The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) released today guidance on how to defend against BlackLotus UEFI bootkit malware attacks. BlackLotus has been circulating on hacking…
Microsoft Teams bug allows malware delivery from external accounts
Security researchers have found a simple way to deliver malware to an organization with Microsoft Teams, despite restrictions in the application for files from external sources.…
Microsoft 365 users report Outlook, Teams won’t start or freezes
Network and IT admins have been dealing with ongoing Microsoft 365 issues this week, reporting that some end users cannot use Microsoft Outlook or other…
Mirai botnet targets 22 flaws in D-Link, Zyxel, Netgear devices
A variant of the Mirai botnet is targeting almost two dozen vulnerabilities aiming to take control of D-Link, Arris, Zyxel, TP-Link, Tenda, Netgear, and MediaTek…