Category: Bleeping Computer

Data leak
22
Aug
2025

Colt confirms customer data stolen as Warlock ransomware auctions files

UK-based telecommunications company Colt Technology Services confirms that customer documentation was stolen as Warlock ransomware gang auctions files. The British…

Smiley hacker
21
Aug
2025

Europol confirms $50,000 Qilin ransomware reward is fake

Europol has confirmed that a Telegram channel impersonating the agency and offering a $50,000 reward for information on two Qilin…

Microsoft
21
Aug
2025

Microsoft asks customers for feedback on SSD failure issues

​Microsoft is seeking further information from customers who reported failure and data corruption issues affecting their solid-state drives (SSDs) and…

Brenda Emerson, VMUG President
21
Aug
2025

Why Certified VMware Pros Are Driving the Future of IT

By Brenda Emerson, VMUG President IT isn’t getting any simpler. For many, the cloud’s gone hybrid, AI’s moved in permanently,…

Russia
21
Aug
2025

FBI warns of Russian hackers exploiting 7-year-old Cisco flaw

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has warned that hackers linked to Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) are targeting critical…

Spider
21
Aug
2025

Scattered Spider hacker gets sentenced to 10 years in prison

Noah Michael Urban, a key member of the Scattered Spider cybercrime collective, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on…

Orange
21
Aug
2025

Orange Belgium discloses data breach impacting 850,000 customers

Orange Belgium, a subsidiary of telecommunications giant Orange Group, disclosed on Wednesday that attackers who breached its systems in July…

ChatGPT
21
Aug
2025

OpenAI says GPT-6 is coming and it’ll be better than GPT-5 (obviously)

OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman told reporters that GPT-6 is already in the works, and it’ll not take as long as…

AI website builder Lovable increasingly abused for malicious activity
21
Aug
2025

AI website builder Lovable increasingly abused for malicious activity

Cybercriminals are increasingly abusing the AI-powered Lovable website creation and hosting platform to generate phishing pages, malware-dropping portals, and various…

Perplexity’s Comet AI browser tricked into buying fake items online
20
Aug
2025

Perplexity’s Comet AI browser tricked into buying fake items online

A study looking into agentic AI browsers has found that these emerging tools are vulnerable to both new and old…

Apple
20
Aug
2025

Apple fixes new zero-day flaw exploited in targeted attacks

Apple has released emergency updates to patch another zero-day vulnerability that was exploited in an “extremely sophisticated attack.” Tracked as…

Botnet
20
Aug
2025

“Rapper Bot” malware seized, alleged developer identified and charged

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced charges against the alleged developer and administrator of the “Rapper Bot” DDoS-for-hire botnet. Ethan Foltz, 22,…