The Week in Ransomware – March 24th 2023
This week’s news has been dominated by the Clop ransomware gang extorting companies whose GoAnywhere services were breached using a zero-day vulnerability. Over the past…
Category: Bleeping Computer
FBI confirms access to Breached cybercrime forum database
Today, the FBI confirmed they have access to the database of the notorious BreachForums (aka Breached) hacking forum after the U.S. Justice Department also officially…
Windows, Ubuntu, and VMWare Workstation hacked on last day of Pwn2Own
On the third day of the Pwn2Own hacking contest, security researchers were awarded $185,000 after demonstrating 5 zero-day exploits targeting Windows 11, Ubuntu Desktop, and…
Microsoft shares tips on detecting Outlook zero-day exploitation
Microsoft today published a detailed guide aiming to help customers discover signs of compromise via exploitation of a recently patched Outlook zero-day vulnerability. Tracked as…
Australian police arrest four BEC actors who stole $1.7 million
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has arrested four members of a cybercriminal syndicate that has laundered $1.7 million stolen from at least 15 victims between…
ChatGPT payment data leak caused by open-source bug
OpenAI says a Redis client open-source library bug was behind Monday’s ChatGPT outage and data leak, where users saw other users’ personal information and chat…
UK creates fake DDoS-for-hire sites to identify cybercriminals
The U.K.’s National Crime Agency (NCA) revealed today that they created multiple fake DDoS-for-hire service websites to identify cybercriminals who utilize these platforms to attack organizations.…
‘Bitter’ espionage hackers target Chinese nuclear energy orgs
A cyberespionage hacking group tracked as ‘Bitter APT’ was recently seen targeting the Chinese nuclear energy industry using phishing emails to infect devices with malware…
GitHub.com rotates its exposed private SSH key
GitHub has rotated its private SSH key for GitHub.com after the secret was was accidentally published in a public GitHub repository. The software development and version control service…
CloudPanel installations use the same SSL certificate private key
Self-hosted web administration solution CloudPanel was found to have several security issues, including using the same SSL certificate private key across all installations and unintentional…
Microsoft fixes Acropalypse privacy bug in Windows 11 Snipping Tool
Microsoft is testing an updated version of the Windows 11 Snipping Tool that fixes a recently disclosed ‘Acropalypse’ privacy flaw that allows the partial restoration…
WordPress force patching WooCommerce plugin with 500K installs
Automattic, the company behind the WordPress content management system, is force installing a security update on hundreds of thousands of websites running the highly popular…