Security Stories for 2024

Millions of IPs Remain Infected By USB Worm Years After Its Creators Left It For Dead 24
Almost Every Chinese Keyboard App Has a Security Flaw That Reveals What Users Type 77
'ArcaneDoor' Cyberspies Hacked Cisco Firewalls To Access Government Networks 22
Change Healthcare Finally Admits It Paid Ransomware Hackers 28
North Koreans Secretly Animated Amazon and Max Shows, Researchers Say 32
GPT-4 Can Exploit Real Vulnerabilities By Reading Security Advisories 74
Red Hat Upgrades Its Pipeline-Securing (and Verification-Automating) Tools 11
Frontier Communications Shuts Down Systems After Cyberattack 6
Hackers Are Threatening To Publish a Huge Stolen Sanctions and Financial Crimes Watchlist 30
Hackers Voice Cloned the CEO of LastPass For Attack 15
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 72
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