February 2024 – Page 12

Check if you’re in Google Chrome’s third-party cookie phaseout test

Google has started testing the phasing out of third-party cookies on Chrome, affecting about 1% of its users or approximately 30 million people. Learn how to check if you are part of the initial test. […]

03 Feb

Mastodon vulnerability allows attackers to take over accounts

Mastodon, the free and open-source decentralized social networking platform, has fixed a critical vulnerability that allows attackers to impersonate and take over any remote account. […]

02 Feb

The Week in Ransomware – February 2nd 2024 – No honor among thieves

Attacks on hospitals continued this week, with ransomware operations disrupting patient care as they force organization to respond to cyberattacks. […]

02 Feb

AnyDesk says hackers breached its production servers, reset passwords

AnyDesk confirmed today that it suffered a recent cyberattack that allowed hackers to gain access to the company’s production systems. BleepingComputer has learned that source code and private code signing keys were stolen during the attack. […]

02 Feb

Lurie Children’s Hospital took systems offline after cyberattack

Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago was forced to take IT systems offline after a cyberattack, disrupting normal operations and delaying medical care in some instances. […]

02 Feb

BTC-e server admin indicted for laundering ransom payments, stolen crypto

Aliaksandr Klimenka, a Belarusian and Cypriot national, has been indicted in the U.S. for his involvement in an international cybercrime money laundering operation. […]

02 Feb

Interpol operation Synergia takes down 1,300 servers used for cybercrime

An international law enforcement operation code-named ‘Synergia’ has taken down over 1,300 command and control servers used in ransomware, phishing, and malware campaigns. […]

01 Feb

FTC orders Blackbaud to boost security after massive data breach

Blackbaud has settled with the Federal Trade Commission after being charged with poor security and reckless data retention practices, leading to a May 2020 ransomware attack and a data breach affecting millions of people. […]

01 Feb

Cloudflare hacked using auth tokens stolen in Okta attack

Cloudflare disclosed today that its internal Atlassian server was breached by a suspected ‘nation state attacker’ who accessed its Confluence wiki, Jira bug database, and Bitbucket source code management system. […]

01 Feb

Microsoft fixes connection issue affecting Outlook email apps

Microsoft has fixed a known issue causing desktop and mobile email clients to fail to connect when using Outlook.com accounts. […]

Month: February 2024

Check if you’re in Google Chrome’s third-party cookie phaseout test

Mastodon vulnerability allows attackers to take over accounts

The Week in Ransomware – February 2nd 2024 – No honor among thieves

AnyDesk says hackers breached its production servers, reset passwords

Lurie Children’s Hospital took systems offline after cyberattack

BTC-e server admin indicted for laundering ransom payments, stolen crypto

Interpol operation Synergia takes down 1,300 servers used for cybercrime

FTC orders Blackbaud to boost security after massive data breach

Cloudflare hacked using auth tokens stolen in Okta attack

Microsoft fixes connection issue affecting Outlook email apps