18-year-old charged with hacking 60,000 DraftKings betting accounts
The Department of Justice revealed today that an 18-year-old man named Joseph Garrison from Wisconsin had been charged with hacking into the accounts of around…
Category: Bleeping Computer
Hackers target vulnerable WordPress Elementor plugin after PoC released
Hackers are now actively probing for vulnerable Essential Addons for Elementor plugin versions on thousands of WordPress websites in massive Internet scans, attempting to exploit…
LayerZero launches record-breaking $15M crypto bug bounty program
LayerZero Labs has launched a bug bounty on the Immunefi platform that offers a maximum reward of $15 million for critical smart contract and blockchain…
MalasLocker ransomware targets Zimbra servers, demands charity donation
Image: Bing Create A new ransomware operation is hacking Zimbra servers to steal emails and encrypt files. However, instead of demanding a ransom payment, the…
Cisco warns of critical switch bugs with public exploit code
Cisco warned customers today of four critical remote code execution vulnerabilities with public exploit code affecting multiple Small Business Series Switches. All four security flaws…
Microsoft pulls Defender update fixing Windows LSA Protection bug
Microsoft has pulled a recent Microsoft Defender update that was supposed to fix a known issue triggering persistent restart alerts and Windows Security warnings that…
Malicious Microsoft VSCode extensions steal passwords, open remote shells
Cybercriminals are starting to target Microsoft’s VSCode Marketplace, uploading three malicious Visual Studio extensions that Windows developers downloaded 46,600 times. According to Check Point, whose analysts…
ScanSource says ransomware attack behind multi-day outages
Technology provider ScanSource has announced it has fallen victim to a ransomware attack impacting some of its systems, business operations, and customer portals. ScanSource is a…
FBI confirms BianLian ransomware switch to extortion only attacks
A joint Cybersecurity Advisory from government agencies in the U.S. and Australia, and published by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA,) is warning organizations of…
FBI warns organizations of the new BianLian ransomware tactics
A joint Cybersecurity Advisory from government agencies in the U.S. and Australia, and published by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA,) is warning organizations of…
Hackers use Azure Serial Console for stealthy access to VMs
A financially motivated cybergang tracked by Mandiant as ‘UNC3944’ is using phishing and SIM swapping attacks to hijack Microsoft Azure admin accounts and gain access…
New ZIP domains spark debate among cybersecurity experts
Cybersecurity researchers and IT admins have raised concerns over Google’s new ZIP and MOV Internet domains, warning that threat actors could use them for phishing…