Europol busts ‘CEO fraud’ gang that stole €38M in a few days
Europol has dismantled a Franco-Israeli ‘CEO fraud’ group that employed business email compromise (BEC) attacks to divert payments from organizations to bank accounts under the…
Category: Bleeping Computer
Hackers stole source code, installed malware in multi-year breach
Web hosting giant GoDaddy says unknown attackers have stolen source code and installed malware on its servers after breaching its cPanel shared hosting environment. While…
Bing Chat’s secret modes turn it into a personal assistant or friend
Bing’s new AI chat has secret chat modes that can be used to change the AI bot into a personal assistant, a friend to help…
FBI is investigating a cybersecurity incident on its network
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is reportedly investigating malicious cyber activity on the agency’s network. The federal law enforcement agency says it already…
Atlassian says recent data leak stems from third-party vendor hack
Atlassian has confirmed that a breach at a third-party vendor caused a recent leak of company data and that their network and customer information is…
CISA warns of Windows and iOS bugs exploited as zero-days
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added four security vulnerabilities exploited in attacks as zero-day to its list of bugs known to…
Microsoft Exchange ProxyShell flaws exploited in new crypto-mining attack
A new malware dubbed ‘ProxyShellMiner’ exploits the Microsoft Exchange ProxyShell vulnerabilities to deploy cryptocurrency miners throughout a Windows domain to generate profit for the attackers.…
New Mirai malware variant infects Linux devices to build DDoS botnet
A new Mirai botnet variant tracked as ‘V3G4’ targets 13 vulnerabilities in Linux-based servers and IoT devices to use in DDoS (distributed denial of service)…
Scandinavian Airlines says cyberattack caused passenger data leak
Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) has posted a notice warning passengers that a recent multi-hour outage of its website and mobile app was caused by a cyberattack…
Burton Snowboards cancels online orders after ‘cyber incident’
Burton Snowboards, a leading snowboard manufacturing company, has canceled all online orders today following what it describes as a “cyber incident.” “We are currently experiencing…
Hackers backdoor Microsoft IIS servers with new Frebniis malware
Hackers are deploying a new malware named ‘Frebniss’ on Microsoft’s Internet Information Services (IIS) that stealthily executes commands sent via web requests. Frebniis was discovered…
February updates break some Windows Server 2022 VMs
Microsoft says some Windows Server 2022 virtual machines might not boot up after installing updates released during this month’s Patch Tuesday. This known issue only impacts…