Bleeping Computer The privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo continues to grow rapidly as the company reached 102M daily search queries for the first time in January. DuckDuckGo is a search engine that builds its search index using …
Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo grew by 62% in 2020 Read More »
Bleeping Computer Signal users are currently experiencing issues around the world, with users unable to send and receive messages. When attempting to send messages via Signal, users are seeing loading screen and error message “502”. …
Signal down after getting flooded with new users Read More »
Bleeping Computer The European Medicines Agency (EMA) today revealed that some of the stolen Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine candidate data was doctored by threat actors before being leaked online with the end goal of undermining the public’s …
Hackers leaked altered Pfizer data to sabotage trust in vaccines Read More »
Bleeping Computer Threat actors are hacking verified Twitter accounts in an Elon Musk cryptocurrency giveaway scam that has recently become widely active. There is nothing new about cryptocurrency scams on Twitter, especially ones pretending to …
Verified Twitter accounts hacked in $580k ‘Elon Musk’ crypto scam Read More »
Bleeping Computer Facebook has taken legal action against the makers of malicious Chrome extensions used for scraping user-profiles and other information from Facebook’s website and from users’ systems without authorization. The two defendants developed and …
Facebook sues makers of malicious Chrome extensions for scraping data Read More »
Bleeping Computer he US National Security Agency (NSA) says that companies should avoid using third party DNS resolvers to block threat actors’ DNS traffic eavesdropping and manipulation attempts and to block access to internal network …
NSA advises companies to avoid third party DNS resolvers Read More »
Bleeping Computer It’s over, kaput, done. Adobe Flash Player is officially non-functional, and it’s time to uninstall the program once and for all. Full article
Bleeping Computer Signal’s encrypted messaging service has recovered from delays affecting its new user verification process after a mass exodus of WhatsApp users to their platform. When setting up Signal for the first time, users …
Signal fixes verification delays caused by WhatsApp mass exodus Read More »
Bleeping Computer A hacker is selling the data stolen from cannabis giant Aurora Cannabis after breaching their systems on Christmas day. Aurora Cannabis is a Canadian cannabis producer listed on both the Toronto Stock Exchange …
Hacker sells Aurora Cannabis files stolen in Christmas cyberattack Read More »
Bleeping Computer The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has sent a security alert warning private sector companies that the Egregor ransomware operation is actively targeting and extorting businesses worldwide. The FBI says in a TLP:WHITE …
FBI warns of Egregor ransomware extorting businesses worldwide Read More »
Bleeping Computer Threat actors are actively scanning the Internet for open SSH devices and trying to login to them using a new recently patched Zyxel hardcoded credential backdoor. Last month, Niels Teusink of Dutch cybersecurity …
Hackers start exploiting the new backdoor in Zyxel devices Read More »
Bleeping Computer North Korean hacking group Thallium aka APT37 has targeted users of a private stock investment messenger service in a software supply chain attack, according to a report published this week. Up until now, the group mainly relied …
North Korean software supply chain attack targets stock investors Read More »