February 2023 - Page 3 of 13

Microsoft urges Exchange admins to remove some antivirus exclusions

Microsoft says some antivirus exclusions previously recommended for Exchange servers should be removed to boost their security. […]

23 Feb

FTC: Americans lost $8.8 billion to fraud in 2022 after 30% surge

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) revealed today that Americans lost almost $8.8 billion to various types of scams in 2022, following a significant surge of over 30% more lost to fraud compared to the previous year. […]

23 Feb

Forsage DeFi platform founders indicted for $340 million scam

A Federal grand jury in the District of Oregon has indicted four Russian nationals founders of Forsage decentralized finance (DeFi) cryptocurrency investment platform for allegedly running a global Ponzi and pyramid scheme that raised $340 million. […]

23 Feb

Ukraine says Russian hackers backdoored govt websites in 2021

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) says Russian state hackers have breached multiple government websites this week using backdoors planted as far back as December 2021. […]

23 Feb

Valve “honeypot” used to ban 40,000 Dota 2 players using cheat

Game developer Valve has announced that it permanently banned more than 40,000 accounts for using cheating software to gain an unfair advantage over other players in the Dota 2 game. […]

22 Feb

Hackers use fake ChatGPT apps to push Windows, Android malware

Threat actors are actively exploiting the popularity of OpenAI’s ChatGPT AI tool to distribute Windows malware, infect Android devices with spyware, or direct unsuspecting victims to phishing pages. […]

22 Feb

NSA shares guidance on how to secure your home network

The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has issued guidance to help remote workers secure their home networks and defend their devices from attacks. […]

22 Feb

Google paid $12 million in bug bounties to security researchers

Google last year paid its highest bug bounty ever through the Vulnerability Reward Program for a critical exploit chain report that the company valued at $605,000. […]

22 Feb

Google investigates Gmail IMAP sync issues affecting Outlook users

Google is investigating a service outage affecting Gmail users worldwide that causes issues when syncing emails with Microsoft servers via the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP). […]

22 Feb

Hackers now exploit critical Fortinet bug to backdoor servers

Threat actors are targeting Internet-exposed Fortinet appliances with exploits targeting CVE-2022-39952, an unauthenticated file path manipulation vulnerability in the FortiNAC webserver that can be abused for remote command execution. […]

Month: February 2023

Microsoft urges Exchange admins to remove some antivirus exclusions

FTC: Americans lost $8.8 billion to fraud in 2022 after 30% surge

Forsage DeFi platform founders indicted for $340 million scam

Ukraine says Russian hackers backdoored govt websites in 2021

Valve “honeypot” used to ban 40,000 Dota 2 players using cheat

Hackers use fake ChatGPT apps to push Windows, Android malware

NSA shares guidance on how to secure your home network

Google paid $12 million in bug bounties to security researchers

Google investigates Gmail IMAP sync issues affecting Outlook users

Hackers now exploit critical Fortinet bug to backdoor servers