Category: Bleeping Computer

Bitcoin hacker
15
Nov
2024

Bitfinex hacker gets 5 years in prison for 120,000 bitcoin heist

A hacker responsible for stealing 119,754 Bitcoin in a 2016 hack on the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange was sentenced to five…

Microsoft Exchange
15
Nov
2024

Microsoft pulls Exchange security updates over mail delivery issues

Microsoft has pulled the November 2024 Exchange security updates released during this month’s Patch Tuesday because of email delivery issues…

Palo Alto
15
Nov
2024

Palo Alto Networks warns of critical RCE zero-day exploited in attacks

Palo Alto Networks is warning that a critical zero-day vulnerability on Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFW) management interfaces, currently tracked as ‘PAN-SA-2024-0015,’…

Windows 10
15
Nov
2024

Microsoft just killed the Windows 10 Beta Channel for good

​Microsoft has shut down the Windows 10 Beta Channel and will move all enrolled Windows Insiders to the Release Preview…

Cards
15
Nov
2024

Fraud network uses 4,700 fake shopping sites to steal credit cards

A financially motivated Chinese threat actor dubbed “SilkSpecter” is using thousands of fake online stores to steal the payment card…

Palo Alto Networks
15
Nov
2024

CISA warns of more Palo Alto Networks bugs exploited in attacks

CISA warned today that two more critical security vulnerabilities in Palo Alto Networks’ Expedition migration tool are now actively exploited…

Data theft
15
Nov
2024

New Glove infostealer malware bypasses Chrome’s cookie encryption

​New Glove Stealer malware can bypass Google Chrome’s Application-Bound (App-Bound) encryption to steal browser cookies. As Gen Digital security researchers…

Hackers use macOS extended file attributes to hide malicious code
14
Nov
2024

Hackers use macOS extended file attributes to hide malicious code

Hackers are using a novel technique that abuses extended attributes for macOS files to deliver a new trojan that researchers call…

Specops forgotten passwords
14
Nov
2024

The true (and surprising) cost of forgotten passwords

We’ve all been there: staring at the login screen, trying to remember which password variation we’re supposed to use on…

Prison
14
Nov
2024

Hacker gets 10 years in prison for extorting US healthcare provider

Robert Purbeck, a 45-year-old man from Idaho, has been sentenced to ten years in prison for hacking at least 19…

ChatGPT
14
Nov
2024

ChatGPT allows access to underlying sandbox OS, “playbook” data

OpenAI’s ChatGPT platform provides a great degree of access to the LLM’s sandbox, allowing you to upload programs and files,…

Telecom hack
14
Nov
2024

US govt officials’ communications compromised in recent telecom hack

CISA and the FBI confirmed that Chinese hackers compromised the “private communications” of a “limited number” of government officials after…