October 5, 2021

Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp Back Online After BGP Fix Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are starting to come back online after a BGP routing issue caused an over five-hour worldwide outage. Today, at approximately 11:50 AM EST, all three websites were suddenly unreachable, with browsers displaying DNS errors when attempting to open them. Read more…

Largest Mobile SMS Routing Firm Discloses Five-year-long Breach Syniverse, a service provider for most telecommunications companies, disclosed that hackers had access to its databases over the past five years and compromised login credentials belonging to hundreds of customers. Self-described as “the world’s most connected company,” Syniverse provides text messaging routing services to Read more…

Windows 11 Is Released: What You Need To Know And New Features Microsoft has released Windows 11 worldwide, and it is now rolling it out via Windows Update on devices with compatible hardware and the latest updates. In August, Microsoft announced that Windows 11 would be released on October 5th, Read more…

RaidForums Forced To Use Mirror After Brazilian Govt Contacts Registrar The RaidForums hacking forum has gone through a turbulent week, with its website now forced through a mirror domain after a government filed a legal request with their registrar. Last week, the popular hacking forum suddenly stopped working, leading people Read more…

Misconfigured Apache Airflow Servers Leak Thousands Of Credentials While investigating a misconfiguration flaw in Apache Airflow, researchers discovered many exposed instances over the web leaking sensitive information, including credentials, from well-known tech companies. Apache Airflow is a popular open-source workflow management platform for organizing and managing tasks. Cloud hosting providers, payment processors leaked credentials This Read more…

UK Plans To Invest £5 Billion In Retaliatory Cyber-attacks The United Kingdom has revealed plans to invest £5 billion in bolstering national cybersecurity that includes creating a “Cyber Force” unit to perform retaliatory attacks. Fighting back Cyber-warfare is being embraced as the “fifth domain” of international conflict and is being Read more…

New Atom Silo Ransomware Targets Vulnerable Confluence Servers Atom Silo, a newly spotted ransomware group, is targeting a recently patched and actively exploited Confluence Server and Data Center vulnerability to deploy their ransomware payloads. Atlassian Confluence is a highly popular web-based corporate team workspace that helps employees collaborate on various Read more…

Ransomware Operators Behind Hundreds Of Attacks Arrested In Ukraine Europol has announced the arrest of two men in Ukraine, said to be members of a prolific ransomware operation that extorted victims with ransom demands ranging between €5 to €70 million. Two arrests in Ukraine The international law enforcement operation was Read more…