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Russian extortion group n0n claims to have stolen nearly one billion Expedia traveler records through a compromised third-party provider. A newly formed Russian cyber extortion group called n0n claims it has hit Expedia, the world’s second-largest online...
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Check Point and UnrealIRCd flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Check Point and UnrealIRCd...
The DOJ seized over $1.2 billion from North Korea ‘s Binance theft, and says the same hackers are targeting open-source developers The U.S. Department of Justice announced two separate but connected actions against North Korea ‘s cryptocurrency theft...
International law enforcement disrupts Gootloader, seizing domains and taking down over 100 servers linked to 25,000 infected computers. The U.S. Department of Justice announced that law enforcement has removed Gootloader malware from more than 100...
Unpatched Check Point gateways were hacked worldwide, leading to root access, backdoors, network intrusion and destructive wiper attacks. Starting on 30 October, an attacker scanned and exploited Check Point Security Gateways that hadn’t been patched,...
SignDrop is a Windows zero-day that abuses CLFS security protections to let local attackers gain SYSTEM privileges and bypass defenses. The researcher Chaotic Eclipse, also known as INFINITE NIGHTMARE, MSNightmare, Nightmare-Eclipse, and MSNightmare,...
Hudson Rock researchers found that two university addresses tied to Italy’s school bomb threats were in infostealer data. On 11 November, bomb-threat emails hit schools across Europe. ANSA, citing the Education Ministry, reported that about 6,000 Italian...
A Microsoft outage disrupted Outlook, Teams and Copilot, also breaking OpenAI and Anthropic connectors to Microsoft 365 accounts. Microsoft 365, Outlook and Teams went down for thousands of US users on Thursday, November 12. Reuters reported that the...
Europe’s spyware victims face years of legal battles and few answers as governments shield surveillance behind national security. Greek journalist Thanasis Koukakis waited almost five years for a court to confirm what happened to him. His phone was...
Zoom fixes two Windows Workplace flaws, including a critical bug that could let unauthenticated attackers remotely escalate privileges. Zoom has released security updates to fix two vulnerabilities in Zoom Workplace for Windows. One is critical and could...