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...
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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...
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...
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...
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,...
PyTorch discloses malicious dependency chain compromise over holidays
PyTorch has identified a malicious dependency with the same name as the framework's 'torchtriton' library. This has led to a successful compromise via the dependency...
Ransomware gang cloned victim’s website to leak stolen data
The ALPHV ransomware operators have gotten creative with their extortion tactic and, in at least one case, created a replica...
Ransomware gang apologizes, gives SickKids hospital free decryptor
The LockBit ransomware gang has released a free decryptor for the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), saying one of its...
New Linux malware uses 30 plugin exploits to backdoor WordPress sites
A previously unknown Linux malware has been exploiting 30 vulnerabilities in multiple outdated WordPress plugins and themes to inject malicious JavaScript. According to...
Canadian mining firm shuts down mill after ransomware attack
The Canadian Copper Mountain Mining Corporation (CMMC) in British Columbia has announced that it was the target of a ransomware attack...
LockBit ransomware claims attack on Port of Lisbon in Portugal
An cyberattack hitting the Port of Lisbon Administration (APL), the third-largest port in Portugal, on Christmas day has been claimed...
Netgear warns users to patch recently fixed WiFi router bug
Netgear has fixed a high-severity vulnerability affecting multiple WiFi router models and advised customers to update their devices to the...
