Mastodon, the free and open-source decentralized social networking platform, has fixed a critical vulnerability that allows attackers to impersonate and take over any remote account. […]
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The Week in Ransomware – February 2nd 2024 – No honor among thieves
Attacks on hospitals continued this week, with ransomware operations disrupting patient care as they force organization to respond to cyberattacks. […]
AnyDesk says hackers breached its production servers, reset passwords
AnyDesk confirmed today that it suffered a recent cyberattack that allowed hackers to gain access to the company’s production systems. BleepingComputer has learned that source code and private code signing keys were stolen during the attack. […]
Lurie Children’s Hospital took systems offline after cyberattack
Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago was forced to take IT systems offline after a cyberattack, disrupting normal operations and delaying medical care in some instances. […]
BTC-e server admin indicted for laundering ransom payments, stolen crypto
Aliaksandr Klimenka, a Belarusian and Cypriot national, has been indicted in the U.S. for his involvement in an international cybercrime money laundering operation. […]
Interpol operation Synergia takes down 1,300 servers used for cybercrime
An international law enforcement operation code-named ‘Synergia’ has taken down over 1,300 command and control servers used in ransomware, phishing, and malware campaigns. […]
FTC orders Blackbaud to boost security after massive data breach
Blackbaud has settled with the Federal Trade Commission after being charged with poor security and reckless data retention practices, leading to a May 2020 ransomware attack and a data breach affecting millions of people. […]
Cloudflare hacked using auth tokens stolen in Okta attack
Cloudflare disclosed today that its internal Atlassian server was breached by a ‘nation state’ attacker who accessed its Confluence wiki, Jira bug database, and Atlassian Bitbucket source code management system. […]
Microsoft fixes connection issue affecting Outlook email apps
Microsoft has fixed a known issue causing desktop and mobile email clients to fail to connect when using Outlook.com accounts. […]
More Android apps riddled with malware spotted on Google Play
An Android remote access trojan (RAT) known as VajraSpy was found in 12 malicious applications, six of which were available on Google Play from April 1, 2021, through September 10, 2023. […]