Yesterday, American Express users across the world including US, UK, and Europe, experienced widespread outages lasting hours, and some users continue to. BleepingComputer was able to briefly reproduce issues right before Amex confirmed partially restoring services. [...]
Okta's outsourced provider of support services, Sitel (Sykes) has shared more information this week in response to the leaked documents that detailed the various incident response tasks carried out by Sitel after the Lapsus$ hack. [...]
EXCLUSIVE: A bug in the support dashboard of Palo Alto Networks (PAN) exposed thousands of customer support tickets to an unauthorized individual, BleepingComputer has learned. The exposed information included, customer names, contact information, conversations between staff and customers, firewall logs and configuration dumps. [...]
Sophos has fixed a critical vulnerability in its Sophos Firewall product that allows remote code execution. Tracked as CVE-2022-1040, the authentication bypass vulnerability exists in the User Portal and Webadmin areas of Sophos Firewall. [...]
Okta has admitted that it made a mistake delaying the disclosure hack from the Lapsus$ data extortion group that took place in January. Additionally, the company has provided a detailed timeline of the incident and its investigation activities. [...]
Researchers have disclosed a 'replay attack' vulnerability affecting select Honda and Acura car models, that allows a nearby hacker to unlock and start your car wirelessly. Honda has no plans to fix the issue in older models at this time. [...]
Okta, a leading provider of authentication services and Identity and access management (IAM) solutions says it is investigating claims of data breach. [...]
"No logs" VPN provider TorGuard has reached a legal settlement with over two dozen movie studios that sued the company for encouraging piracy and copyright infringement. In the settlement, TorGuard has agreed to block BitTorrent traffic for its users. [...]
Video game developer Ubisoft has confirmed that it suffered a 'cyber security incident' that caused disruption to some of its services. Data extortion group LAPSUS$, who has claimed responsibility for hacking Samsung, NVIDIA, and Mercado Libre thus far, also appears to be behind Ubisoft incident. [...]
ProtonMail is urging its Russian user base to hurry up and renew their subscriptions before it is too late, as multiple payment processing services like Mastercard, Visa, and PayPal are exiting the Russian market. ProtonMail is a provider of privacy-centric and end-to-end encrypted email services to millions around the …
E-commerce giant Mercado Libre has confirmed "unauthorized access" to a part of its source code this week. Mercado additionally says data of around 300,000 of its users was accessed by threat actors. [...]
Romania's Rompetrol gas station network has been hit by a ransomware attack. Rompetrol, owned by KMG International announced today that it was battling a "complex cyberattack." BleepingComputer has learned that the Hive ransomware gang is behind this attack. [...]
Adafruit has disclosed a data leak that occurred due to a publicly-viewable GitHub repository. The company suspects this could have allowed "unauthorized access" to information about certain users on or before 2019. [...]
Scammers are now targeting unsuspecting users via phishing webpages, forum posts, and email links enticing users to "help Ukraine" by donating cryptocurrency. The development follows Ukraine's successful effort of raising over $37 million in crypto donations from all around the world amid the country's ongoing Russian invasion. [...]
Twitter account of former intelligence specialist, Reality Winner was hacked over the weekend by threat actors looking to target journalists at prominent media organizations. After taking over Winner's verified Twitter account, hackers changed the profile name to "Feedback Team" to impersonate Twitter staff and began sending out DMs. [...]
BleepingComputer has confirmed Element Vape, a prominent online seller of e-cigarettes and vaping kits was serving a credit card skimmer on its live site, likely after getting hacked. Element Vape has a presence across the U.S. and Canada and sells products in both retail outlets and on their …
BleepingComputer has confirmed Element Vape, a prominent online seller of e-cigarettes and vaping kits is serving a credit card skimmer on its live site, likely after getting hacked. Element Vape has a presence across the U.S. and Canada and sells products in both retail outlets and on their …
BleepingComputer has confirmed Element Vape, a prominent online seller of e-cigarettes and vaping kits is serving a credit card skimmer on its live site, likely after getting hacked. Element Vape has a presence across the U.S. and Canada and sells products in both retail outlets and on their …
Google Drive was seen flagging '.DS_Store' files generated by macOS file systems as a violation of its copyright infringement policy. '.DS_Store' is a metadata file commonly seen by Apple users when they transfer their folders and archives from a macOS to a non-Apple operating system, like Windows. [...]
Five major Canadian banks went offline for hours blocking access to online and mobile banking as well as e-transfers for customers. The banks hit by the outage include Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), BMO (Bank of Montreal), Scotiabank, TD Bank Canada, and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC …
A researcher has demonstrated how he was able to successfully recover text that had been redacted using the pixelation technique. Further, the researcher has released a GitHub tool that can be used by anyone to reconstruct text from obscure, pixelated images. [...]
A researcher has demonstrated how he was able to successfully recover text that had been redacted using the pixelation technique. Further, the researcher has released a GitHub tool that can be used by anyone to reconstruct text from obscure, pixelated images. [...]
The BlackCat ransomware group, aka ALPHV, has claimed responsibility for the recent cyber attack on cargo and hospitality services giant Swissport that caused flight delays and service disruptions. [...]
American media and publishing giant News Corp has disclosed today that it was the target of a "persistent" cyberattack. The attack discovered sometime this January, reportedly allowed threat actors to access emails and documents of some News Corp employees, including journalists. [...]
Cryptocurrency platform Wormhole has recovered upwards of $326 million stolen in this week's crypto hack, thanks to a major bailout. [...]