Malware Attack Is Preventing Car Inspections In Eight US States A malware cyberattack on emissions testing company Applus Technologies is preventing vehicle inspections in eight states, including Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Massachusetts, Utah, and Wisconsin. On Tuesday, March 30th, vehicle emissions testing platform Applus Technologies suffered a “malware” attack that caused Read more…
533 Million Facebook Users’ Phone Numbers Leaked On Hacker Forum The mobile phone numbers and other personal information for approximately 533 million Facebook users worldwide has been leaked on a popular hacker forum for free. The stolen data first surfaced on a hacking community in June 2020 when a member began Read more…
Most Loved Programming Language Rust Sparks Privacy Concerns Rust developers have repeatedly raised concerned about an unaddressed privacy issue over the last few years. Rust has rapidly gained momentum among developers, for its focus on performance, safety, safe concurrency, and for having a similar syntax to C++. StackOverflow’s 2020 developer survey ranked Rust first among the “most loved programming languages.” Read more…
Ransomware Gang Leaks Data From Stanford, Maryland Universities Personal and financial information stolen from Stanford Medicine, University of Maryland Baltimore (UMB), and the University of California was leaked online by the Clop ransomware group. The threat actors obtained the documents after hacking the universities’ Accellion File Transfer Appliance (FTA) software used to Read more…
Microsoft Outage Caused By Overloaded Azure DNS Servers Microsoft has revealed that Thursday’s worldwide outage was caused by a code defect that allowed the Azure DNS service to become overwhelmed and not respond to DNS queries. At approximately 5:21 PM EST on Thursday, Microsoft experienced a global outage that prevented Read more…
GitHub Actions Being Actively Abused To Mine Cryptocurrency On GitHub Servers GitHub Actions is currently being abused by attackers to mine cryptocurrency using GitHub’s servers in an automated attack. GitHub Actions is a CI/CD solution that makes it easy to automate all your software workflows and setup periodic tasks. The particular attack adds Read more…
Brown University Hit By Cyberattack, Some Systems Still Offline Brown University, a private US research university, had to disable systems and cut connections to the data center after suffering a cyberattack on Tuesday. The Ivy League school’s IT staff said the attack focused on the university’s Windows-based devices and asked Read more…
Asteelflash Electronics Maker Hit By REvil Ransomware Attack Asteelflash, a leading French electronics manufacturing services company, has suffered a cyberattack by the REvil ransomware gang who is demanding a $24 million ransom. Asteelflash is a world-leading French electronics manufacturing services (EMS) company that specializes in the design, engineering, and printing of Read more…
FBI And CISA Warn Of State Hackers Attacking Fortinet FortiOS Servers The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warn of advanced persistent threat (APT) actors targeting Fortinet FortiOS servers using multiple exploits. In the Joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) published today, the agencies warn admins and users that Read more…
Popular Twitch AdBlock Shuts Down After Twitch Breaks Extension The popular Twitch AdBlock extension has been removed from both Chrome Web Store and Firefox Addons site. Twitch AdBlock was the choice of extension among Twitch users for restricting ads when using Twitch. Before the extension’s removal, the ad blocker was last seen Read more…
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