February 2024 – Page 4

UnitedHealth confirms Optum hack behind US healthcare billing outage

Healthcare giant UnitedHealth Group confirmed that its subsidiary Optum was forced to shut down IT systems and various services after a cyberattack by “nation-state” hackers on the Change Healthcare platform. […]

22 Feb

Microsoft has started testing Wi-Fi 7 support in Windows 11

Microsoft is testing support for Wi-Fi 7 in Windows 11, which offers multi-gigabit speeds and improved throughput, latency, and reliability compared to previous Wi-Fi generations. […]

22 Feb

Microsoft now force installing Windows 11 23H2 on eligible PCs

Microsoft has started force installing Windows 11 23H2 on eligible devices that have reached or are close to their end-of-servicing date. […]

22 Feb

Bitwarden’s new auto-fill option adds phishing resistance

The Bitwarden open-source password management service has introduced a new inline auto-fill menu that addresses the risk of user credentials being stolen through malicious form fields. […]

22 Feb

New ScreenConnect RCE flaw exploited in ransomware attacks

Attackers are exploiting a maximum severity authentication bypass vulnerability to breach unpatched ScreenConnect servers and deploy LockBit ransomware payloads on compromised networks. […]

22 Feb

ScreenConnect servers hacked in LockBit ransomware attacks

Attackers are exploiting a maximum severity authentication bypass vulnerability to breach unpatched ScreenConnect servers and deploy LockBit ransomware payloads on compromised networks. […]

22 Feb

FTC to ban Avast from selling browsing data for advertising purposes

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will order Avast to pay $16.5 million and ban the company from selling the users’ web browsing data or licensing it for advertising purposes. […]

21 Feb

Joomla fixes XSS flaws that could expose sites to RCE attacks

Five vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Joomla content management system that could be leveraged to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable websites. […]

21 Feb

Microsoft expands free logging capabilities after May breach

Microsoft has expanded free logging capabilities for all Purview Audit standard customers, including U.S. federal agencies, six months after disclosing that Chinese hackers stole U.S. government emails undetected in an Exchange Online breach between May and June 2023. […]

Month: February 2024

UnitedHealth confirms Optum hack behind US healthcare billing outage

Microsoft has started testing Wi-Fi 7 support in Windows 11

Microsoft now force installing Windows 11 23H2 on eligible PCs

Bitwarden’s new auto-fill option adds phishing resistance

New ScreenConnect RCE flaw exploited in ransomware attacks

ScreenConnect servers hacked in LockBit ransomware attacks

FTC to ban Avast from selling browsing data for advertising purposes

Joomla fixes XSS flaws that could expose sites to RCE attacks

Microsoft expands free logging capabilities after May breach

Hackers abuse Google Cloud Run in massive banking trojan campaign