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2026-07-09 17:01:37 UTC

Microsoft says Windows users should expect to see an increase in security updates as the company increasingly relies on artificial intelligence to discover vulnerabilities in its codebase.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-expects-more-windows-security-updates-from-ai-discovered-flaws/

2026-07-01 17:32:39 UTC

The Department of Homeland Security is investigating a cyberattack that compromised the Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN), a sensitive information-sharing platform used by federal, state, local, and private-sector partners.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/dhs-confirms-hackers-breached-hsin-info-sharing-platform/

2026-06-30 21:20:21 UTC

Microsoft announced today that it is accelerating its quantum-safe security roadmap, saying advances in quantum computing are bringing the need to replace today's encryption standards sooner than previously expected.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-accelerates-quantum-safe-roadmap-as-risks-grow/

2026-04-19 16:03:15 UTC

Apple account change notifications are being abused to send fake iPhone purchase phishing scams within legitimate emails sent from Apple's servers, increasing legitimacy and potentially allowing them to bypass spam filters.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/apple-account-change-alerts-abused-to-send-phishing-emails/

2026-04-03 20:40:38 UTC

A new report dubbed "BrowserGate" warns that Microsoft's LinkedIn is using hidden JavaScript scripts on its website to scan visitors' browsers for installed extensions and collect device data.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/linkedin-secretely-scans-for-6-000-plus-chrome-extensions-collects-data/

2026-03-19 16:14:27 UTC

The FBI has seized two websites used by the Handala hacktivist group after the threat actors conducted a destructive cyberattack on medical technology giant Stryker that wiped approximately 80,000 devices.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fbi-seizes-handala-data-leak-site-after-stryker-cyberattack/

2026-03-05 20:42:41 UTC

The Wikimedia Foundation suffered a security incident today after a self-propagating JavaScript worm began vandalizing pages and modifying user scripts across multiple wikis.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/wikipedia-hit-by-self-propagating-javascript-worm-that-vandalized-pages/

2026-03-04 22:35:11 UTC

Bitwarden announced support for logging into Windows 11 devices using passkeys stored in the manager's vault, enabling phishing-resistant authentication.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/bitwarden-adds-support-for-passkey-login-on-windows-11/

2026-03-03 11:45:00 UTC

Amazon has confirmed that three Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and one in Bahrain have been damaged by drone strikes, causing an extensive outage that is still affecting dozens of cloud computing services.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/amazon-drone-strikes-damaged-aws-data-centers-in-middle-east/

2026-02-21 16:15:14 UTC

Intellexa's Predator spyware can hide iOS recording indicators while secretly streaming camera and microphone feeds to its operators.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/predator-spyware-hooks-ios-springboard-to-hide-mic-camera-activity/

2026-02-16 17:32:42 UTC

With the massive adoption of the OpenClaw agentic AI assistant, information-stealing malware has been spotted stealing files associated with the framework that contain API keys, authentication tokens, and other secrets.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/infostealer-malware-found-stealing-openclaw-secrets-for-first-time/

2026-02-16 08:19:32 UTC

Google has released emergency updates to fix a high-severity Chrome vulnerability exploited in zero-day attacks, marking the first such security flaw patched since the start of the year.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-patches-first-chrome-zero-day-exploited-in-attacks-this-year/

2026-02-11 23:15:56 UTC

Microsoft has fixed a "remote code execution" vulnerability in Windows 11 Notepad that allowed attackers to execute local or remote programs by tricking users into clicking specially crafted Markdown links, without displaying any Windows security warnings.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-11-notepad-flaw-let-files-execute-silently-via-markdown-links/

2026-02-10 18:44:16 UTC

Microsoft has released Windows 11 KB5077181 and KB5075941 cumulative updates for versions 25H2/24H2 and 23H2 to fix security vulnerabilities, bugs, and add new features.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-11-kb5077181-and-kb5075941-cumulative-updates-released/

2026-02-10 17:00:16 UTC

Microsoft has begun rolling out updated Secure Boot certificates through monthly Windows updates to replace the original 2011 certificates that will expire in late June 2026.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-rolls-out-new-secure-boot-certificates-before-june-expiration/

2026-02-07 09:47:22 UTC

A major U.S. payment gateway and solutions provider says a ransomware attack has knocked key systems offline, triggering a widespread outage affecting multiple services. The incident began on Friday and quickly escalated into a nationwide disruption across BridgePay's platform.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/payment-gateway-bridgepay-confirms-ransomware-attack-behind-outage/

2026-02-06 17:16:19 UTC

The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in the U.S. has issued a warning about CVE-2026-24423, an unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) flaw in SmarterMail that is used in ransomware attacks.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-warns-of-smartermail-rce-flaw-used-in-ransomware-attacks/

2026-02-04 23:27:14 UTC

A threat actor is compromising NGINX servers in a campaign that hijacks user traffic and reroutes it through the attacker's backend infrastructure.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-compromise-nginx-servers-to-redirect-user-traffic/

2026-01-27 12:25:14 UTC

Hackers have stolen the personal and contact information belonging to over 29.8 million SoundCloud user accounts after breaching the audio streaming platform's systems.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/have-i-been-pwned-soundcloud-data-breach-impacts-298-million-accounts/

2026-01-26 11:49:52 UTC

CISA has flagged a critical VMware vCenter Server vulnerability as actively exploited and ordered U.S. federal agencies to secure their servers within three weeks.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-says-critical-vmware-rce-flaw-now-actively-exploited/

2026-01-25 13:24:13 UTC

Microsoft is investigating reports that some Windows 11 devices are failing to boot with "UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME" errors after installing the January 2026 Patch Tuesday security updates.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-investigates-windows-11-boot-failures-after-january-updates/

2026-01-23 10:39:00 UTC

Days after admins began reporting that their fully patched firewalls are being hacked, Fortinet confirmed it's working to fully address a critical FortiCloud SSO authentication bypass vulnerability that should have already been patched since early December.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fortinet-confirms-critical-forticloud-auth-bypass-not-fully-patched/

2026-01-21 17:49:24 UTC

Fortinet admins are seeing attackers exploiting a patch bypass for a previously fixed FortiGate authentication bypass (CVE-2025-59718) to hack patched firewalls.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fortinet-admins-report-patched-fortigate-firewalls-getting-hacked/

2026-01-20 16:33:46 UTC

Microsoft has released PowerToys 0.97, with a new mouse utility for multi-monitor setups and significant improvements to the Command Palette quick launcher.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-powertoys-adds-new-cursorwrap-mouse-teleport-tool/

2026-01-15 01:30:13 UTC

Google appears to be testing a new feature that integrates Gemini into Chrome for Android, allowing you to use agentic browser capabilities on your mobile device.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/google-plans-to-make-chrome-for-android-an-agentic-browser-with-gemini/

2026-01-15 00:00:12 UTC

Google is rolling out 'Personal Intelligence,' a new Gemini feature that pulls your data from Gmail, Photos, Google Search, and other products.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/googles-personal-intelligence-links-gmail-photos-and-search-to-gemini/

2026-01-14 18:27:41 UTC

Verizon Wireless is suffering a massive outage in the US, with customers reporting their phones stuck in SOS mode with no cellular service.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/mobile/verizon-wireless-outage-puts-phones-in-sos-mode-without-cell-service/

2026-01-13 18:53:42 UTC

Microsoft has released Windows 11 KB5074109 and KB5073455 cumulative updates for versions 25H2/24H2 and 23H2 to fix security vulnerabilities, bugs, and add new features.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-11-kb5074109-and-kb5073455-cumulative-updates-released/

2026-01-12 17:52:27 UTC

EXCLUSIVE: Target's dev server offline after hackers claim to steal source code - @Ax_Sharma
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/targets-dev-server-offline-after-hackers-claim-to-steal-source-code/

2026-01-12 15:48:57 UTC

Microsoft has started retiring the Microsoft Lens PDF scanner app for Android and iOS devices on Friday, January 9th, with plans to remove it from app stores next month.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-is-retiring-the-lens-scanner-app-for-ios-android/

2026-01-12 14:06:11 UTC

Nearly 60,000 n8n instances exposed online remain unpatched against a maximum-severity vulnerability dubbed "Ni8mare."
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/max-severity-ni8mare-flaw-impacts-nearly-60-000-n8n-instances/

2026-01-08 22:43:21 UTC

Elon Musk-backed xAI has been missing in action for a while now, but today, Musk teased a major upgrade for Grok alongside new products.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/xai-teases-major-grok-upgrade-hints-at-grok-code-cli/

2026-01-07 17:41:25 UTC

A maximum severity vulnerability dubbed "Ni8mare" allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to take control over locally deployed instances of the N8N workflow automation platform.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/max-severity-ni8mare-flaw-lets-hackers-hijack-n8n-servers/

2026-01-05 20:01:33 UTC

Brightspeed, one of the largest fiber broadband companies in the United States, is investigating security breach and data theft claims made by the Crimson Collective extortion gang.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-broadband-provider-brightspeed-investigates-breach-claims/

2025-12-29 11:16:18 UTC

Fortinet has warned customers that threat actors are still actively exploiting a critical FortiOS vulnerability that allows them to bypass two-factor authentication (2FA) when targeting vulnerable FortiGate firewalls.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fortinet-warns-of-5-year-old-fortios-2fa-bypass-still-exploited-in-attacks/

2025-12-16 22:18:02 UTC

A new campaign dubbed 'GhostPoster' is hiding JavaScript code in the image logo of malicious Firefox extensions counting more than 50,000 downloads, to monitor browser activity and plant a backdoor.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ghostposter-attacks-hide-malicious-javascript-in-firefox-addon-logos/

2025-12-16 15:57:50 UTC

Hackers are exploiting critical-severity vulnerabilities affecting multiple Fortinet products to get unauthorized access to admin accounts and steal system configuration files.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-exploit-newly-patched-fortinet-auth-bypass-flaws/

2025-12-14 16:06:27 UTC

An email scam is abusing abusing PayPal's "Subscriptions" billing feature to send legitimate PayPal emails that contain fake purchase notifications embedded in the Customer service URL field.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/beware-paypal-subscriptions-abused-to-send-fake-purchase-emails/

2025-12-09 17:10:41 UTC

American IT software company Ivanti warned customers today to patch a newly disclosed vulnerability in its Endpoint Manager (EPM) solution that could allow attackers to execute code remotely.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ivanti-warns-of-critical-endpoint-manager-code-execution-flaw/

2025-12-07 15:10:14 UTC

Portugal has modified its cybercrime law to establish a legal safe harbor for good-faith security research and to make hacking non-punishable under certain strict conditions.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/portugal-updates-cybercrime-law-to-exempt-security-researchers/

2025-12-05 09:02:20 UTC

Cloudflare is down, as websites are crashing with a 500 Internal Server Error.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/cloudflare-down-websites-offline-with-500-internal-server-error/

2025-12-04 13:18:24 UTC

Microsoft is investigating and working to resolve a known issue that prevents customers from downloading Microsoft 365 desktop apps from the Microsoft 365 homepage.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-bug-in-microsoft-365-license-checks-blocks-desktop-app-downloads/

2025-12-03 21:31:34 UTC

Attackers are exploiting a critical-severity privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2025-8489) in the King Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress, which lets them obtain administrative permissions during the registration process.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/critical-flaw-in-wordpress-add-on-for-elementor-exploited-in-attacks/

2025-11-28 18:07:34 UTC

Microsoft warns that Windows 11 updates released since August may cause the password sign-in option to disappear from the lock screen options.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-windows-updates-hide-password-icon-on-lock-screen/

2025-11-26 22:24:35 UTC

A new Mirai-based botnet malware named 'ShadowV2' has been observed targeting IoT devices from D-Link, TP-Link, and other vendors with exploits for known vulnerabilities.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-shadowv2-botnet-malware-used-aws-outage-as-a-test-opportunity/

2025-11-25 17:09:37 UTC

Tor has announced improved encryption and security for the circuit traffic by replacing the old tor1 relay encryption algorithm with a new design called Counter Galois Onion (CGO).
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/tor-switches-to-new-counter-galois-onion-relay-encryption-algorithm/

2025-11-24 11:47:18 UTC

Microsoft has warned IT administrators to prepare for the removal of Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) from Windows Server releases starting in November 2034.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-to-remove-wins-support-after-windows-server-2025/

2025-11-21 18:02:20 UTC

Microsoft has released an out-of-band cumulative update to fix a known issue causing the November 2025 KB5068966 hotpatch update to reinstall on Windows 11 systems repeatedly.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-out-of-band-update-fixes-windows-11-hotpatch-install-loop/

2025-11-21 16:48:56 UTC

CrowdStrike says it caught an insider sharing screenshots taken on internal systems with unnamed threat actors.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/crowdstrike-catches-insider-feeding-information-to-hackers/

2025-11-20 15:39:12 UTC

D-Link is warning of three remotely exploitable command execution vulnerabilities that affect all models and hardware revisions of its DIR-878 router, which has reached end-of-service but is still available in several markets.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/d-link-warns-of-new-rce-flaws-in-end-of-life-dir-878-routers/

2025-11-19 16:44:02 UTC

The US, UK, and Australia sanction Media Land, a Russian bulletproof hosting provider accused of supporting multiple ransomware gangs, including LockBit, BlackSuit, and Play.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-sanctions-russian-bulletproof-hosting-provider-media-land-over-ransomware-ties/

2025-11-18 12:25:13 UTC

Cloudflare is investigating an outage affecting its global network services, with users encountering "internal server error" messages when attempting to access affected websites and online platforms.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/cloudflare-hit-by-outage-affecting-global-network-services/

2025-11-14 17:00:57 UTC

Fortinet has silently patched a critical zero-day vulnerability in its FortiWeb web application firewall, which is now being widely exploited.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fortinet-confirms-silent-patch-for-fortiweb-zero-day-exploited-in-attacks/

2025-11-14 04:38:59 UTC

DoorDash has disclosed a data breach that hit the food delivery platform this October. Beginning yesterday evening, DoorDash, which serves millions of customers across the U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, started emailing those impacted by the newly disclosed security incident.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/doordash-hit-by-yet-another-data-breach-this-october/

2025-11-12 16:35:16 UTC

The DanaBot malware has returned with a new version observed in attacks, six-months after law enforcement's Operation Endgame disrupted its activity in May.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/danabot-malware-is-back-to-infecting-windows-after-6-month-break/

2025-11-12 00:14:48 UTC

The Rhadamanthys infostealer operation has been disrupted, with numerous "customers" of the malware-as-a-service reporting that they no longer have access to their servers.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/rhadamanthys-infostealer-disrupted-as-cybercriminals-lose-server-access/

2025-11-11 18:28:32 UTC

Microsoft has released an emergency out-of-band update to address a known issue preventing Windows 10 users from enrolling in the Extended Security Updates (ESU) program.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-emergency-windows-10-update-fixes-esu-enrollment-bug/

2025-11-05 17:13:22 UTC

SonicWall's investigation into the September security breach that exposed customers' firewall configuration backup files concludes that state-sponsored hackers were behind the attack.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/sonicwall-says-state-sponsored-hackers-behind-security-breach-in-september/

2025-11-04 21:47:05 UTC

Threat actors are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in the Post SMTP plugin installed on more than 400,000 WordPress sites, to take complete control by hijacking administrator accounts.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-exploit-wordpress-plugin-post-smtp-to-hijack-admin-accounts/

2025-11-04 13:31:21 UTC

Microsoft says the October 2025 updates trigger incorrect end-of-support warnings on Windows 10 systems with active security coverage or still under active support.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-10-update-bug-triggers-incorrect-end-of-support-alerts/

2025-11-03 15:22:29 UTC

An out-of-band (OOB) security update that patches an actively exploited Windows Server Update Service (WSUS) vulnerability has broken hotpatching on some Windows Server 2025 devices.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-patch-for-wsus-flaw-disabled-windows-server-hotpatching/

2025-11-01 20:00:14 UTC

OpenAI is planning to introduce ads on ChatGPT, as it continues to struggle with revenue from paid users.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-is-going-meta-route-as-it-considers-memory-based-ads-on-chatgpt/

2025-10-29 19:03:23 UTC

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security warned today that hacktivists have breached critical infrastructure systems multiple times across the country, allowing them to modify industrial controls that could have led to dangerous conditions.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/canada-says-hacktivists-breached-water-and-energy-facilities/

2025-10-29 16:49:51 UTC

Microsoft is investigating an ongoing DNS outage affecting customers worldwide, preventing them from accessing Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 services.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-dns-outage-impacts-azure-and-microsoft-365-services/

2025-10-29 14:33:12 UTC

Microsoft has resolved a known issue that caused Windows updates to fail, leading to 0x800F081F errors on Windows 11 24H2 systems.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-fixes-0x800f081f-errors-causing-windows-update-failures/

2025-10-23 14:09:34 UTC

OpenAI's Atlas and Perplexity's Comet browsers are vulnerable to AI sidebar spoofing attacks that mislead users into following fake AI-generated instructions.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/spoofed-ai-sidebars-can-trick-atlas-comet-users-into-dangerous-actions/

2025-10-18 15:02:36 UTC

A new malicious campaign is targeting macOS developers with fake Homebrew, LogMeIn, and TradingView platforms that deliver infostealing malware like AMOS (Atomic macOS Stealer) and Odyssey.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-ads-for-fake-homebrew-logmein-sites-push-infostealers/

2025-10-16 14:28:51 UTC

CISA has warned that attackers are actively exploiting a maximum-severity vulnerability in Adobe Experience Manager to execute code on unpatched systems.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-maximum-severity-adobe-flaw-now-exploited-in-attacks/

2025-10-16 13:00:12 UTC

Microsoft says Windows 11 users can now start a conversation with Copilot by saying the &quot;Hey Copilot&quot; wake word.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-adds-hey-copilot-wake-word-to-windows-11-pcs/

2025-10-15 19:22:23 UTC

An ongoing phishing campaign is targeting LastPass and Bitwarden users with fake emails claiming that the companies were hacked, urging them to download a supposedly more secure desktop version of the password manager.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-lastpass-bitwarden-breach-alerts-lead-to-pc-hijacks/

2025-10-13 14:42:32 UTC

Oracle has issued an emergency security update over the weekend to patch another E-Business Suite (EBS) vulnerability that can be exploited remotely by unauthenticated attackers.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/oracle-releases-emergency-patch-for-new-e-business-suite-flaw/

2025-10-10 17:00:14 UTC

Google is updating the Chrome web browser to automatically revoke notification permissions for websites that haven't been visited recently, to reduce alert overload.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-chrome-to-revoke-notification-access-for-inactive-sites/

2025-10-09 14:13:19 UTC

SonicWall has confirmed that all customers that used the company's cloud backup service are affected by the security breach last month.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/sonicwall-firewall-configs-stolen-for-all-cloud-backup-customers/

2025-10-07 19:09:51 UTC

Sports betting giant DraftKings has notified an undisclosed number of customers that their accounts had been hacked in a recent wave of credential stuffing attacks.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/draftkings-warns-of-account-breaches-in-credential-stuffing-attacks/

2025-09-29 22:17:02 UTC

The Metropolitan Police has secured a conviction in what is believed to be the world's largest cryptocurrency seizure, valued at more than £5.5 billion ($7.3 billion).
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/uk-convicts-bitcoin-queen-in-worlds-largest-cryptocurrency-seizure/

2025-09-25 16:49:51 UTC

Cisco warned customers today to patch two zero-day vulnerabilities that are actively being exploited in attacks and impact the company's firewall software.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisco-warns-of-asa-firewall-zero-days-exploited-in-attacks/

2025-09-17 17:51:17 UTC

New York-based venture capital and private equity firm Insight Partners is notifying thousands of individuals whose personal information was stolen in a ransomware attack.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vc-giant-insight-partners-warns-thousands-after-ransomware-breach/

2025-09-16 16:47:02 UTC

Security researchers have identified at least 187 npm packages compromised in an ongoing supply chain attack. The coordinated worm-style campaign dubbed 'Shai-Hulud' started yesterday with the compromise of the @npub1xgx…xa3d/tinycolor npm package, and has now expanded to CrowdStrike's npm namespace.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/self-propagating-supply-chain-attack-hits-187-npm-packages/

2025-09-15 15:59:41 UTC

Next month, Microsoft will begin automatically installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on Windows devices that have the Microsoft 365 desktop client apps.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-to-force-install-the-microsoft-365-copilot-app-in-october/

2025-09-10 17:56:39 UTC

The largest supply-chain compromise in the history of the NPM ecosystem has impacted roughly 10% of all cloud environments, but attackers made little profit off it.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-left-empty-handed-after-massive-npm-supply-chain-attack/

2025-09-08 00:08:15 UTC

Google plans to make it easier for users to access AI mode by allowing them to set it as the default, replacing the traditional blue links.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-to-make-it-easier-to-access-ai-mode-as-default/

2025-09-03 22:01:53 UTC

Threat actors are using Grok, X's built-in AI assistant, to bypass link posting restrictions that the platform introduced to reduce malicious advertising.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/threat-actors-abuse-xs-grok-ai-to-spread-malicious-links/

2025-09-02 22:34:04 UTC

Hackers tried to steal $130 million from Evertec's Brazilian subsidiary Sinqia S.A.after gaining unauthorized access to its environment on the central bank's real-time payment system (Pix).
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-breach-fintech-firm-in-attempted-130m-bank-heist/

2025-08-28 17:00:46 UTC

Microsoft says that Word for Windows will soon enable autosave and automatically save all new documents to the cloud by default.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-word-will-save-your-files-to-the-cloud-by-default/

2025-08-27 22:38:34 UTC

Microsoft warns that a threat actor tracked as Storm-0501 has evolved its operations, shifting away from encrypting devices with ransomware to focusing on cloud-based encryption, data theft, and extortion.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/storm-0501-hackers-shift-to-ransomware-attacks-in-the-cloud/

2025-08-26 19:13:12 UTC

Hackers breached sales automation platform Salesloft to steal OAuth and refresh tokens from its Drift chat agent integration with Salesforce to pivot to customer environments and exfiltrate data. The ShinyHunters extortion group claims responsibility for these additional Salesforce attacks.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/salesloft-breached-to-steal-oauth-tokens-for-salesforce-data-theft-attacks/

2025-08-23 15:22:11 UTC

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is warning major U.S. tech companies against yielding to foreign government demands that weaken data security, compromise encryption, or impose censorship on their platforms.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ftc-warns-tech-giants-not-to-bow-to-foreign-pressure-on-encryption/

2025-08-19 13:39:49 UTC

Microsoft has confirmed that the August 2025 Windows security updates are breaking reset and recovery operations on systems running Windows 10 and older versions of Windows 11.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-august-security-updates-break-windows-recovery-reset/

2025-08-18 15:40:00 UTC

A recent ruling from Germany's Federal Supreme Court (BGH) has revived a legal battle over whether browser-based ad blockers infringe copyright, raising fears about a potential ban of the tools in the country.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/legal/mozilla-warns-germany-could-soon-declare-ad-blockers-illegal/

2025-08-13 16:26:15 UTC

The Office of the Pennsylvania Attorney General has announced that a recent cyberattack has taken down its systems, including landline phone lines and email accounts.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/pennsylvania-attorney-generals-email-site-down-after-cyberattack/

2025-08-12 13:13:26 UTC

Microsoft announced today that systems running Home and Pro editions of Windows 11 23H2 will stop receiving updates in three months.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-11-23h2-home-and-pro-reach-end-of-support-in-november/

2025-08-07 08:41:46 UTC

Air France and KLM announced on Wednesday that attackers had breached a customer service platform and stolen the data of an undisclosed number of customers.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/air-france-and-klm-disclose-data-breaches-impacting-customers/

2025-08-04 14:42:24 UTC

A newly discovered Linux malware, which has evaded detection for over a year, allows attackers to gain persistent SSH access and bypass authentication on compromised systems.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-plague-malware-backdoors-linux-devices-removes-ssh-session-traces/

2025-07-30 17:41:02 UTC

Threat actors are actively exploiting a critical unauthenticated arbitrary file upload vulnerability in the WordPress theme 'Alone,' to achieve remote code execution and perform a full site takeover.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-actively-exploit-critical-rce-in-wordpress-alone-theme/

2025-07-28 20:55:25 UTC

The Tea app data breach has grown into an even larger leak, with the stolen data now shared on hacking forums and a second database discovered that allegedly contains 1.1 million private messages exchanged between the app's members.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/tea-app-leak-worsens-with-second-database-exposing-user-chats/

2025-07-28 15:19:46 UTC

The Internet Archive has become an official U.S. federal depository library, providing online users with access to archived congressional bills, laws, regulations, presidential documents, and other U.S. government documents.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/internet-archive-is-now-a-us-federal-depository-library/

2025-07-24 21:34:27 UTC

Law enforcement has seized the dark web leak sites of the BlackSuit ransomware operation, which has targeted and breached the networks of hundreds of organizations worldwide over the past several years.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/law-enforcement-seizes-blacksuit-ransomware-leak-sites/

2025-07-24 20:54:27 UTC

A new Linux malware named Koske may have been developed with artificial intelligence and is using seemingly benign JPEG images of panda bears to deploy malware directly into system memory.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-koske-linux-malware-hides-in-cute-panda-images/

2025-07-20 14:10:13 UTC

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) is warning of hardcoded credentials in Aruba Instant On Access Points that allow attackers to bypass normal device authentication and access the web interface.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hpe-warns-of-hardcoded-passwords-in-aruba-access-points/

2025-07-19 12:51:39 UTC

Popular JavaScript libraries eslint-config-prettier and eslint-plugin-prettier were hijacked this week and turned into malware droppers, in a supply chain attack achieved via targeted phishing and credential theft.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/popular-npm-linter-packages-hijacked-via-phishing-to-drop-malware/