Security Stories

Frontier Communications Shuts Down Systems After Cyberattack 6
Hackers Are Threatening To Publish a Huge Stolen Sanctions and Financial Crimes Watchlist 28
Hackers Voice Cloned the CEO of LastPass For Attack 14
A Spy Site Is Scraping Discord and Selling Users' Messages 49
Cloudflare DDoS Threat Report For 2024 Q1 10
A Crypto Wallet Maker's Warning About an iMessage Bug Sounds Like a False Alarm 3
Change Healthcare's Ransomware Attack Costs Edge Toward $1 Billion So Far 17
T-Mobile Employees Across The Country Receive Cash Offers To Illegally Swap SIMs: Report 71
Roku Makes 2FA Mandatory For All After Nearly 600K Accounts Pwned 26
Crickets From Chirp Systems in Smart Lock Key Leak 14
Security Engineer Jailed For 3 Years For $12M Crypto Hacks 8
Data Collected by the US Justice Department Exposed in Consultant's Breach 9
New Spectre V2 Attack Impacts Linux Systems On Intel CPUs 21
US Government Says Recent Microsoft Breach Exposed Federal Agencies to Hacking 15
Why CISA Is Warning CISOs About a Breach At Sisense 14
Hackable Intel and Lenovo Hardware That Went Undetected For 5 Years Won't Ever Be Fixed 62
Apple Alerts Users in 92 Nations To Mercenary Spyware Attacks 16
Microsoft Employees Exposed Internal Passwords In Security Lapse 24
NIST Blames 'Growing Backlog of Vulnerabilities' Requiring Analysis on Lack of Support 22
Rust, Python, Apache Foundations and Others Announce Big Collaboration on Cybersecurity Process Specifications 42
Hospital Network Admin Used Fake Identity For 35 Years 88
Scathing Federal Report Rips Microsoft For Shoddy Security 81
Missouri County Declares State of Emergency Amid Suspected Ransomware Attack 41
New XZ Backdoor Scanner Detects Implants In Any Linux Binary 33
AT&T Says Data From 73 Million Customers Has Leaked Onto the Dark Web 21
Do Age Verification Laws Drag Us Back to the Dark Ages of the Internet? 159
AI Hallucinated a Dependency. So a Cybersecurity Researcher Built It as Proof-of-Concept Malware 44
'Security Engineering' Author Ross Anderson, Cambridge Professor, Dies at Age 67 7
Red Hat Issues Urgent Alert For Fedora Linux Users Due To Malicious Code 83
Recent 'MFA Bombing' Attacks Targeting Apple Users 15
US Offers $10 Million Bounty For Info on 'Blackcat' Hackers Who Hit UnitedHealth 15
Chinese Spies Sell Access into Top US, UK Networks 16
New 'Loop DoS' Attack May Impact Up to 300,000 Online Systems 10
Apple Criticized For Changing the macOS version of cURL 75
New 'GoFetch' Apple CPU Attack Exposes Crypto Keys 40
US Cyber Investors Pledge Spyware is Off Limits - With a Catch 7
UnitedHealth Group Paid More Than $2 Billion To Providers Following Cyberattack 26
Hackers Found a Way To Open Any of 3 Million Hotel Keycard Locks In Seconds 33
Unpatchable Vulnerability in Apple Chip Leaks Secret Encryption Keys 85
Apex Legends Hacker Said He Hacked Tournament Games 'For Fun' 34
'Disabling Cyberattacks' Are Hitting Critical US Water Systems, White House Warns 77
AT&T Says Leaked Data of 70 Million People Is Not From Its Systems 25
C++ Creator Rebuts White House Warning 258
Fujitsu Says It Was Hacked, Warns of Data Breach 10
Massively Popular Safe Locks Have Secret Backdoor Codes 62
Record Breach of French Government Exposes Up To 43 Million People's Data 11
Google's Safe Browsing Protection in Chrome Goes Real-Time 49
Stanford University Failed To Detect Ransomware Intruders For 4 Months 22
Over 15,000 Roku Accounts Sold To Buy Streaming Subscriptions, Devices 25
Midjourney Bans All Stability AI Employees Over Alleged Data Scraping 12
France Says Several Agencies Hit by 'Intense' Cyberattacks 17
Misconfigured Cloud Servers Targeted with Linux Malware for New Cryptojacking Campaign 16
Linux Variants of Bifrost Trojan Evade Detection via Typosquatting 19
US Cybersecurity Agency Forced to Take Two Systems Offline Last Month After Ivanti Compromise 4
Microsoft Says Russian Hackers Stole Source Code After Spying On Its Executives 29
Researchers Jailbreak AI Chatbots With ASCII Art 34
VMware Sandbox Escape Bugs Are So Critical, Patches Are Released For End-of-Life Products 31
Fidelity Customers' Financial Info Feared Stolen In Suspected Ransomware Attack 22
BlackCat Ransomware Group Implodes After Apparent $22M Payment By Change Healthcare 54
Hackers Exploited Windows 0-day for 6 Months After Microsoft Knew of It 46
Researchers Create AI Worms That Can Spread From One System to Another 46
Linux Foundation Launches Open Source Fraud Prevention Solutions, Supported By Gates Foundation 20
Ransomware Attack Hampers Prescription Drug Sales at 90% of US Pharmacies 81
A Leaky Database Spilled 2FA Codes For the World's Tech Giants 11
Google is Blocking RCS on Rooted Android Devices 105
How the Pentagon Learned To Use Targeted Ads To Find Its Targets 55
Government Watchdog Hacked US Federal Agency To Stress-Test Its Cloud Security 21
Calendar Meeting Links Used To Spread Mac Malware 17
Cheap Doorbell Cameras Can Be Easily Hijacked, Says Consumer Reports 23
Popular Video Doorbells Can Be Easily Hijacked, Researchers Find 36
GitHub Besieged By Millions of Malicious Repositories In Ongoing Attack 50
Hackers Backed By Russia and China Are Infecting SOHO Routers Like Yours, FBI Warns 36
LockBit Ransomware Gang Resurfaces With New Site 24
The Companies Helping Governments Hack Citizens' Phones: a 'Thriving' Industry 8
How 'Smart Keys' Have Fueled a New Wave of Car Thefts 177
Ransomware Associated With LockBit Still Spreading 2 Days After Server Takedown 4
UnitedHealth Says Change Healthcare Hacked by Nation State, as US Pharmacy Outages Drag On 15
US Health Tech Giant Change Healthcare Hit by Cyberattack 17
Leaked Hacking Files Show Chinese Spying On Citizens and Foreigners Alike 18
US Offers Up To $15 Million For Information on LockBit Leaders 22
Apple Rolls Out iMessage Upgrade To Withstand Decryption By Quantum Computers 42
Fingerprints Can Be Recreated From the Sounds Made When Swiping On a Touchscreen 42
International Law Enforcement Disrupts LockBit Ransomware 13
MIT Researchers Build Tiny Tamper-Proof ID Tag Utilizing Terahertz Waves 42
Linux Becomes a CVE Numbering Authority (Like Curl and Python). Is This a Turning Point? 20
How Rust Improves the Security of Its Ecosystem 45
Zeus, IcedID Malware Kingpin Faces 40 Years In Prison 39
New 'Gold Pickaxe' Android, iOS Malware Steals Your Face For Fraud 13
DOJ Quietly Removed Russian Malware From Routers in US Homes and Businesses 71
US Military Notifies 20,000 of Data Breach After Cloud Email Leak 11
Microsoft and OpenAI Say US Rivals Are Beginning To Use Generative AI in Offensive Cyber Operations 15
Wi-Fi Jamming To Knock Out Cameras Suspected In Nine Minnesota Burglaries 174
Infosys Subsidiary Named as Source of Bank of America Data Leak 21
FCC Requires Telcos To Disclose When Your Personal Info Is Stolen 13
'World's Biggest Casino' App Exposed Customers' Personal Data 10
Security Flaw In a Popular Smart Helmet Allowed Silent Location Tracking 3
Ring Video Doorbell Customers Angry At 43% Price Hike 42
Canada Moves To Ban the Flipper Zero Over Car Hacking Fears 63
The Viral Smart Toothbrush Botnet Story Is Not Real 52
Critical Vulnerability Affecting Most Linux Distros Allows For Bootkits 51
3 Million Malware-Infected Smart Toothbrushes Used In Swiss DDoS Attacks [UPDATE] 56
US To Restrict Visas For Those Who Misuse Commercial Spyware 23
Pig-Butchering Scam Kits Are for Sale in Underground Markets 27
Cloudflare Hacked By Suspected State-Sponsored Threat Actor 19
FBI Director Warns Chinese Hackers Aim To 'Wreak Havoc' On US Critical Infrastructure 98
Ivanti Patches Two Zero-Days Under Attack, But Finds Another 1
ChatGPT is Leaking Passwords From Private Conversations of Its Users - Report 62
US Disabled Chinese Hacking Network Targeting Critical Infrastructure 24
Mistakenly Published Password Exposes Mercedes-Benz Source Code 29
18-Year-Old Cleared After Encrypted Snapchat Joke Led To F-18s and Arrest 133
HP, Many More Companies May Have Been Breached By Russian Intelligence Group 27
EFF Adds Street Surveillance Hub So Americans Can Check Who's Checking On Them 56
IT Consultant Fined For Daring To Expose Shoddy Security 102
HP CEO Evokes James Bond-Style Hack Via Ink Cartridges 166
How a Data Breach of 1M Cancer Center Patients Led to Extorting Emails 37
Microsoft Executive Emails Hacked By Russian Intelligence Group, Company Says 25
Google Says Russian Espionage Crew Behind New Malware Campaign 10
A Flaw In Millions of Apple, AMD, and Qualcomm GPUs Could Expose AI Data 22
Have I Been Pwned Adds 71 Million Emails From Naz.API Stolen Account List 17
Mobile Device Ambient Light Sensors Can Be Used To Spy On Users 11
JPMorgan Suffers 45 Billion Cyber Attacks a Day 36
Cyber Attacks Are One of the Biggest Threats Facing Healthcare Systems 19
Ukrainian Hacker Group Takes Down Moscow ISP As a Revenge For Kyivstar Cyber Attack 85
Water Pump Used To Get $1 Billion Stuxnet Malware Into Iranian Nuclear Facility 36
Chicago Public Schools Lost Over $20 Million In Electronics In One Year, Report Says 163
Linux Devices Are Under Attack By a Never-Before-Seen Worm 101
AirDrop 'Cracked' By Chinese Authorities To Identify Senders 25
Russian Hackers Were Inside Ukraine Telecoms Giant For Months 26
Ivanti Warns of Critical Vulnerability In Its Popular Line of Endpoint Protection Software 19
Law Firm That Handles Data Breaches Was Hit By Data Breach 26
Museum World Hit by Cyberattack on Widely Used Software 7
23andMe Tells Victims It's Their Fault Data Was Breached 95
LastPass Now Requires 12-Character Master Passwords 31
Google Password Resets Not Enough To Stop These Info-Stealing Malware Strains 13
Amnesty International Confirms Apple's Warning to Journalists About Spyware-Infected iPhones 75
Microsoft Disables MSIX Protocol Handler Abused in Malware Attacks 11
Cyberattack Targets Albanian Parliament's Data System, Halting Its Work 2
4-Year Campaign Backdoored iPhones Using Possibly the Most Advanced Exploit Ever 57
CBS, Paramount Owner National Amusements Says It Was Hacked 62
Mint Mobile Discloses New Data Breach Exposing Customer Data 14
US Water Utilities Hacked After Default Passwords Set to '1111', Cybersecurity Officials Say 84
Attack Discovered Against SSH 66
Comcast Discloses Data Breach of Close To 36 Million Xfinity Customers [UPDATE] 40
Insomniac Hacker Releases More Than 1.3 Million Stolen Files, Including Unannounced Games Info 18
Authorities Claim Seizure of Notorious ALPHV Ransomware Gang's Dark Web Leak Site 9
Mr. Cooper Hackers Stole Personal Data on 14 Million Customers 74
Delta Dental of California Data Breach Exposed Info of 7 Million People 20
China Issues Draft Contingency Plan for Data Security Incidents 5
Intelligence Researchers To Study Computer Code for Clues To Hackers' Identities 4
Supply Chain Attack Targeting Ledger Crypto Wallet Leaves Users Hacked 17
Apple's New iPhone Security Setting Keeps Thieves Out of Your Digital Accounts 19
Lazarus Cyber Group Deploys DLang Malware Strains 13
US Healthcare Giant Norton Says Hackers Stole Millions of Patients' Data During Ransomware Attack 27
Reports of Active Directory Vulnerability Allowing DNS Record Spoofs to Steal Secrets 14
Apple Report Finds Steep Increase in Data Breaches, Ransomware 12
Android Vulnerability Exposes Credentials From Mobile Password Managers 22
Nearly Every Windows and Linux Device Vulnerable To New LogoFAIL Firmware Attack 69
AI Models May Enable a New Era of Mass Spying, Says Bruce Schneier 37
Windows 10 Gets Three More Years of Security Updates, If You Can Afford Them 80
Exposed Hugging Face API Tokens Offered Full Access To Meta's Llama 2 11
23andMe Confirms Hackers Stole Ancestry Data on 6.9 Million Users 40
Gmail's AI-Powered Spam Detection Is Its Biggest Security Upgrade in Years 45
Sellafield Nuclear Site Hacked By Groups Linked To Russia and China 26
Is There Really a Shortage of Information Security Workers? 87
Rust Foundation Plans Training/Certification Program. Security Initiative Funded Through 2024 4
ownCloud Vulnerability With Maximum 10 Severity Score Comes Under 'Mass' Exploitation 20
Google Warns China Is Ramping Up Cyberattacks Against Taiwan 15
Dollar Tree Hit By Third-Party Data Breach Impacting 2 Million People 16
Okta Says Hackers Stole Data For All Customer Support Users 14
Hackers Spent 2+ Years Looting Secrets of Chipmaker NXP Before Being Detected 19
India's CERT Given Exemption From Right To Information Requests 5
Researchers Figure Out How To Bypass Fingerprint Readers In Most Windows PCs 25
Why Do So Many Sites Have Bad Password Policies? 242
How Python's New Security Developer Hopes To Help All Software Supply Chains 23
Personal Data Stolen in British Library Cyber-Attack Appears for Sale Online 5
Thousands of Routers and Cameras Vulnerable To New 0-Day Attacks By Hostile Botnet 18
Australia Beefs Up Cyber Defences After Major Breaches 6
USB Worm Unleashed By Russian State Hackers Spreads Worldwide 34
Third-Party Data Breach Affecting Canadian Government Could Involve Data From 1999 4
Nothing's iMessage App Was a Security Catastrophe, Taken Down In 24 Hours 47
Commercial Flights Are Experiencing 'Unthinkable' GPS Attacks 183
Microsoft Celebrates 20th Anniversary of 'Patch Tuesday' 17
Online Atrocity Database Exposed Thousands of Vulnerable People In Congo 6
Ransomware Group Reports Victim It Breached To SEC Regulators 32
Prison Phone Company Leaked 600,000 Users' Data and Didn't Notify Them 45
Developers Can't Seem To Stop Exposing Credentials in Publicly Accessible Code 59
Samsung Says Hackers Accessed Customer Data During Year-Long Breach 7
Children's Tablet Has Malware and Exposes Kids' Data, Researcher Finds 37
Intel Fixes High-Severity CPU Bug That Causes 'Very Strange Behavior' 22
A Lost Bitcoin Wallet Passcode Helped Uncover a Major Security Flaw 22
FBI Struggled To Disrupt Dangerous Casino Hacking Gang, Cyber Responders Say 30
Healthcare Giant McLaren Reveals Data On 2.2 Million Patients Stolen During Ransomware Attack 12
New York Plans Cyber Rules for Hospitals 24
In a First, Cryptographic Keys Protecting SSH Connections Stolen in New Attack 95
A SysAid Vulnerability Is Being Used To Deploy Clop Ransomware, Warns Microsoft 19
Highly Invasive Backdoors Hidden in Python Obfuscation Packages, Downloaded by 2,348 Developers 50
NY AG Issues $450K Penalty To US Radiology After Unpatched Bug Led To Ransomware 25
Microsoft Briefly Restricted Employee Access To OpenAI's ChatGPT, Citing Security Concerns 5
Cyber Attack Forces World's Biggest Bank to Trade via USB Stick 14
Maine Government Says Data Breach Affects 1.3 Million Residents 40
Mortgage Giant Mr. Cooper Shuts Down Systems Following Cyberattack 30
Google-led App Defense Alliance Joins Linux Foundation 17
US Military Members' Personal Data Being Sold By Online Brokers, Report Finds 32
Huawei and Tencent Spearhead China's Hold on Cybersecurity Patents 28
Microsoft Disputes Severity of Four Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Found in Exchange by Trend Micro 26
Okta Breach: 134 Customers Exposed in October Support System Hack 13
Fusus' AI-Powered Cameras Are Spreading Across the United States 33
US House Panel Seeks Ban On Federal Purchases of China Drones 33
Brave Responds To Bing and ChatGPT With a New 'Anonymous and Secure' AI Chatbot 11
Microsoft Overhauling Its Software Security After Major Azure Cloud Attacks 40
Two Russian Nationals Charged For Hacking Taxi System At JFK Airport 48
[Dot]US Harbors Prolific Malicious Link Shortening Service 17
Alliance of 40 Countries To Vow Not To Pay Ransom To Cybercriminals, US Says 52
Apple Warns Indian Opposition Leaders of State-Sponsored iPhone Attacks 29
Hackers Accessed 632,000 Email Addresses at US Justice, Defense Departments 9
Powerful Malware Disguised as Crypto Miner Infects 1M+ Windows, Linux PCs 19
Google Adds Generative AI Threats To Its Bug Bounty Program 3
Ukrainian Hackers and Intel Officers Partner Up In Apparent Hack of a Top Russian Bank 41
Hackers Can Force iOS and macOS Browsers To Divulge Passwords 29
US Conservatives Are Trying To Kill Government's Top Cyber Security Agency 267
Okta Cybersecurity Breach Wipes Out More Than $2 Billion In Market Cap 40
Google Falsely Flags Samsung Apps as 'Harmful,' Tells Users To Remove Them 45
1Password Discloses Security Incident Linked To Okta Breach 27
What's Behind the Cybersecurity Jobs Shortage? 137
OpenBSD 7.4 Released 8
Hackers Stole Access Tokens From Okta's Support Unit 26
The Latest High-Severity Citrix Vulnerability Under Attack Isn't Easy To Fix 3
Hackers Compromise Accounts of Kodex, Company That Vets Police Data Requests For Tech Giants 2
There's a New Way To Flip Bits in DRAM, and It Works Against the Latest Defenses 44
Google-Hosted Malvertising Leads To Fake Keepass Site That Looks Genuine 37
Android Will Now Scan Sideloaded Apps For Malware At Install Time 41
Hacker Leaks Millions More 23andMe User Records On Cybercrime Forum 20
Russia and China-backed Hackers Are Exploiting WinRAR Zero-Day Bug, Google Says 40
Why Switzerland's E-Voting System Is a Bad Idea 65
US Plans To Push Other Countries Not to Pay Hacker Ransoms 36
To 'Evolve' Windows Authentication, Microsoft Wants to Eventually Disable NTLM in Windows 11 68
Across US, Chinese Bitcoin Mines Draw National Security Scrutiny 23
Equifax Scores $13.6 Million Slap on Wrist Over 2017 Mega Breach 25
Cisco Can't Stop Using Hard-Coded Passwords 30
Europe Mulls Open Sourcing TETRA Emergency Services' Encryption Algorithms 18
Cloud Gaming Firm Shadow Says Hackers Stole Customers' Personal Data 7
State-backed Hackers Are Exploiting New 'Critical' Atlassian Zero-Day Bug 18
HTTP/2 Zero-Day Exploited To Launch Largest DDoS Attacks In History 25
Google Makes Passkeys the Default Sign-in Method For All Users 230
Hacktivism Erupts In Response To Hamas-Israel War 340
Red Hat, Ubuntu, Debian, and Gentoo Release Patches for 'Looney Tunables' Linux Vulnerability 22
For 'Cybersecurity Awareness Month' America's Cybersecurity Agency Shares Four Online Safety Tips 34
Android Devices With Backdoored Firmware Found In US Schools 36
23andMe Scraping Incident Leaked Data On 1.3 Million Users 25
NSA Shares Top Ten Cybersecurity Misconfigurations 31

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