Windows 11 ‘Win32 app isolation’ security feature now in preview
Microsoft announced the public preview launch of Win32 app isolation, a new Windows 11 security feature designed to sandbox 32-bit desktop applications. Recently announced during…
Category: Bleeping Computer
The Week in Ransomware – June 16th 2023
The MOVEit Transfer extortion attacks continue to dominate the news cycle, with the Clop ransomware operation now extorting organizations breached in the attacks. On Wednesday,…
Police cracks down on DDoS-for-hire service active since 2013
Polish police officers of the country’s Central Bureau for Combating Cybercrime detained two suspects believed to have been involved in operating a DDoS-for-hire service (aka…
Google targets fake business reviews network in new lawsuit
Google has filed a consumer protection lawsuit against Ethan QiQi Hu and his company, Rafadigital, accusing him of creating 350 fraudulent Business Profiles and 14,000…
Windows 11 KB5027231 also breaks Chrome for Cisco, WatchGuard EDR users
The Windows 11 22H2 KB5027231 cumulative update released during this month’s Patch Tuesday also breaks Google Chrome on systems protected by Cisco and WatchGuard EDR…
Western Digital boots outdated NAS devices off of My Cloud
Western Digital is warning owners of My Cloud series devices that can no longer connect to cloud services starting on June 15, 2023, if the…
Millions of Oregon, Louisiana state IDs stolen in MOVEit breach
Louisiana and Oregon warn that millions of driver’s licenses were exposed in a data breach after a ransomware gang hacked their MOVEit Transfer security file…
Rhysida ransomware leaks documents stolen from Chilean Army
Threat actors behind a recently surfaced ransomware operation known as Rhysida have leaked online what they claim to be documents stolen from the network of…
MOVEit Transfer customers warned of new flaw as PoC info surfaces
Progress warned MOVEit Transfer customers to restrict all HTTP access to their environments after info on a new SQL injection (SQLi) vulnerability was shared online today.…
Suspected LockBit ransomware affiliate arrested, charged in US
Russian national Ruslan Magomedovich Astamirov was arrested and charged by the U.S. Justice Department for allegedly deploying LockBit ransomware on the networks of victims in…
Android GravityRAT malware now steals your WhatsApp backups
A new Android malware campaign spreading the latest version of GravityRAT has been underway since August 2022, infecting mobile devices with a trojanized chat app…
Clop ransomware gang starts extorting MOVEit data-theft victims
The Clop ransomware gang has started extorting companies impacted by the MOVEit data theft attacks, first listing the company’s names on a data leak site—an often-employed…