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Twitter outage shows "Something went wrong" error message

63by Ionut Ilascu / 9h

Thousands of Twitter users across the world are reporting problems connecting to the platform on both desktop and mobile devices. [...]

Mantis botnet behind the record-breaking DDoS attack in June

20by Bill Toulas / 6h

The record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that Cloudflare mitigated last month originated from a new botnet called Mantis, which is currently described as "the most powerful botnet to date." [...]

PayPal phishing kit added to hacked WordPress sites for full ID theft

PayPal Phishing Kit

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by Bill Toulas / 4h

A newly discovered phishing kit targeting PayPal users is trying to steal a large set of personal information from victims that includes government identification documents and photos. [...]

TODAY

Microsoft releases PoC exploit for macOS sandbox escape vulnerability

by Ionut Ilascu / 6h

On macOS systems that don't have Apple's recent security updates, a vulnerability identified as CVE-2022-26706 could help an attacker bypass sandbox restrictions to execute code with elevated privileges. [...]

CoinPayments to shut down in US — 5 days left to withdraw funds

51by Ax Sharma / 12h

Global crypto payments gateway, CoinPayments.net is ceasing operations in the United States soon and has advised users to withdraw their assets before July 19th, 2022. The short notice given by the exchange via a private email left some customers suspecting if this was an "exit scam" or another mysterious incident. [...]

New Retbleed speculative execution CPU attack bypasses Retpoline fixes

48by Ionut Ilascu / 12h

Security researchers have discovered a new speculative execution attack called Retbleed that affects processors from both Intel and AMD and could be used to extract sensitive information. [...]

YESTERDAY

New Lilith ransomware emerges with extortion site, lists first victim

Data Encrypted for Impact (Enterprise T1486)

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45by Bill Toulas / 1d

A new ransomware operation has been launched under the name 'Lilith,' and it has already posted its first victim on a data leak site created to support double-extortion attacks. [...]

Bandai Namco confirms hack after ALPHV ransomware data leak threat

Bandai Namco Confirms

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59by Lawrence Abrams / 1d

Game publishing giant Bandai Namco has confirmed that they suffered a cyberattack that may have resulted in the theft of customers' personal data. [...]

Microsoft releases tweet-size exploit for macOS sandbox escape bug

100+by Ionut Ilascu / 1d

On macOS systems that don't have Apple's recent security updates, a vulnerability identified as CVE-2022-26706 could help an attacker bypass sandbox restrictions to execute code with elevated privileges. [...]

Windows 8.1 now shows full-screen 'End of Support' warnings

Microsoft Windows 8.1

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200+by Lawrence Abrams / 1d

Windows 8.1 is now displaying full-screen alerts when logging into the operating system, warning that the OS is reaching the end of support in January 2023 and will no longer receive security updates. [...]

New UEFI firmware flaws impact over 70 Lenovo laptop models

CVE-2022-1892

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400+by Bill Toulas / 1d

The UEFI firmware used in several laptops made by Lenovo is vulnerable to three buffer overflow vulnerabilities that could enable attackers to hijack the startup routine of Windows installations. [...]

New Android malware on Google Play installed 3 million times

300+by Bill Toulas / 1d

A new Android malware family on the Google Play Store that secretly subscribes users to premium services was downloaded over 3,000,000 times. [...]

$8 million stolen in large-scale Uniswap airdrop phishing attack

IoC > 1 domain

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39by Bill Toulas / 1d

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$8M Uniswap Airdrop

Uniswap, a popular decentralized cryptocurrency exchange, lost close to $8 million worth of Ethereum in a sophisticated phishing attack yesterday. [...]