Fortinet: Govt networks targeted with now-patched SSL-VPN zero-day
Fortinet says unknown attackers exploited a FortiOS SSL-VPN zero-day vulnerability patched last month in attacks against government organizations and government-related...
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Microsoft: Cuba ransomware hacking Exchange servers via OWASSRF flaw
Microsoft says Cuba ransomware threat actors are hacking Microsoft Exchange servers unpatched against a critical server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability...
Microsoft: Exchange Server 2013 reaches end of support in 90 days
Microsoft warned customers today that Exchange Server 2013 will reach its extended end-of-support (EOS) date 90 days from now, on...
The Week in Ransomware – January 13th 2023 – LockBit in the spotlight
The LockBit ransomware operation has again taken center stage in the ransomware news, as we learned yesterday they were behind...
Vice Society ransomware claims attack on Australian firefighting service
Australia's Fire Rescue Victoria has disclosed a data breach caused by a December cyberattack that is now claimed by the...
Royal Mail halts international services after cyberattack
The Royal Mail, UK's leading mail delivery service, has stopped its international shipping services due to "severe service disruption" caused...
European police takes down call centers behind cryptocurrency scams
Multiple call centers across Europe controlled by a criminal organization involved in online investment fraud were taken down this week...
MetaMask warns of new ‘Address Poisoning’ cryptocurrency scam
Cryptocurrency wallet provider MetaMask is warning users of a new scam called 'Address Poisoning' used to trick users into sending...
RAT malware campaign tries to evade detection using polyglot files
Operators of the StrRAT and Ratty remote access trojans (RAT) are running a new campaign using polyglot MSI/JAR and CAB/JAR...
Scattered Spider hackers use old Intel driver to bypass security
A financially motivated threat actor tracked as Scattered Spider was observed attempting to deploy Intel Ethernet diagnostics drivers in a...
Threema claims encryption flaws never had a real-world impact
A team of researchers from ETH Zurich has published a paper describing multiple security flaws in Threema, a secure end-to-end...
Twitter claims leaked data of 200M users not stolen from its systems
Twitter finally addressed reports that a dataset of email addresses linked to hundreds of millions of Twitter users was leaked...
Android TV box on Amazon came pre-installed with malware
A Canadian systems security consultant discovered that an Android TV box purchased from Amazon was pre-loaded with persistent, sophisticated malware...
Gootkit malware abuses VLC to infect healthcare orgs with Cobalt Strike
The Gootkit loader malware operators are running a new SEO poisoning campaign that abuses VLC Media Player to infect Australian...
Hackers exploit Control Web Panel flaw to open reverse shells
Hackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability patched recently in Control Web Panel (CWP), a tool for managing servers formerly...
Synology fixes maximum severity vulnerability in VPN routers
Taiwan-based NAS maker Synology has addressed a maximum (10/10) severity vulnerability affecting routers configured to run as VPN servers. The...
Over 60,000 Exchange servers vulnerable to ProxyNotShell attacks
More than 60,000 Microsoft Exchange servers exposed online are yet to be patched against the CVE-2022-41082 remote code execution (RCE)...
Ransomware impacts over 200 govt, edu, healthcare orgs in 2022
Ransomware attacks in 2022 impacted more than 200 hundred larger organizations in the U.S. public sector in the government, educational,...
Poland warns of attacks by Russia-linked Ghostwriter hacking group
The Polish government is warning of a spike in cyberattacks from Russia-linked hackers, including the state-sponsored hacking group known as...
Ongoing Flipper Zero phishing attacks target infosec community
A new phishing campaign is exploiting the increasing interest of security community members towards Flipper Zero to steal their personal...
Royal ransomware claims attack on Queensland University of Technology
The Royal ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for a recent cyberattack on the Queensland University of Technology and begun to...
Rail giant Wabtec discloses data breach after Lockbit ransomware attack
U.S. rail and locomotive company Wabtec Corporation has disclosed a data breach that exposed personal and sensitive information. Wabtec is...
BitRAT malware campaign uses stolen bank data for phishing
Threat actors behind a recent malware campaign have been using the stolen information of bank customers in Colombia as lures...
BleepingComputer’s most popular cybersecurity stories of 2022
It was a big year for cybersecurity in 2022 with massive cyberattacks and data breaches, innovative phishing attacks, privacy concerns,...
