Bleeping Computer A Thanos ransomware campaign targeting mid-level employees of multiple organizations from Austria, Switzerland, and Germany was met by the victims’ refusal to pay the ransoms demanded to have their data decrypted. Thanos ransomware is …
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Bleeping Computer Zoom’s CEO Eric S. Yuan today announced that end-to-end encryption (E2EE) will be provided to all users (paid and free) after verifying their accounts by providing additional identification info such as their phone number. We …
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Bleeping Computer Plex has patched and mitigated three vulnerabilities affecting Plex Media Server for Windows that could enable attackers to take full control of the underlying system when chained together. Plex Media Server is a desktop …
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Bleeping Computer VideoLan has released VLC Media Player 3.0.11, and it is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. In addition to bug fixes and improvements, this release also fixes a security vulnerability that could …
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Bleeping Computer Two high severity security vulnerabilities found in the PageLayer plugin can let attackers to potentially wipe the contents or take over WordPress sites using vulnerable plugin versions. PageLayer is a WordPress plugin with over 200,000+ …
200K sites with buggy WordPress plugin exposed to wipe attacks Read More »
Bleeping Computer A threat actor has shared the 2014 voter information for close to 2 million Indonesians on a well-known hacker forum and claims they will release a total of 200 million at a later date. …
Voter info for millions of Indonesians shared on hacker forum Read More »
Bleeping Computer EasyJet, the UK’s largest airline, has disclosed that they were hacked and that the email addresses and travel information for 9 million customers were exposed. For some of these customers, credit card details …
EasyJet hacked: data breach affects 9 million customers Read More »
Bleeping Computer Hackers have launched a massive attack against more than 900,000 WordPress sites seeking to redirect visitors to malvertising sites or plant a backdoor if an administrator is logged in. Based on the payload, …
Massive campaign targets 900,000 WordPress sites in a week Read More »
Bleeping Computer Microsoft is planning to put a stop to enterprise data theft via email forwarding by disabling Office 365’s email forwarding to external recipients by default. The company also wants to add improved external …
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Bleeping Computer Hackers claim to have gained access to the network of Banco BCR, the state-owned Bank of Costa Rica, and stolen 11 million credit card credentials along with other data. Full article
Bleeping Computer witter announced today that it has turned off the Twitter via SMS service because of security concerns, a service which allowed the social network’s users to tweet using text messages since its early beginnings. …
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Bleeping Computer Microsoft is investigating Bluetooth issues, failures to install, and blue screen reports received from users who have installed or attempted to install the KB4549951 cumulative update released during this month’s Patch Tuesday. KB4549951 …
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