Last week, Microsoft issued a warning that a network of bots (or botnet) is being actively used to carry out advanced password-spraying attacks against users of Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing service. The worst part? It’s…
Hackers working on behalf of the Chinese government are using a botnet of thousands of routers, cameras, and other Internet-connected devices to perform highly evasive password spray attacks against users of Microsoft’s Azure cloud service,…
Ostensibly a blogging platform, WordPress has quietly become one of the foundational pillars of the modern web, used as the basic format for millions of websites run by single users to massive corporations. But that…
This Reddit comment posted to the CentOS subreddit is typical. An admin noticed that two servers were infected with a cryptocurrency hijacker with the names perfcc and perfctl. The admin wanted help investigating the cause.…
U.S. tech giant Cisco has let go of thousands of employees following its second layoff of 2024. The technology and networking company announced in August that it would reduce its headcount by 7%, or around…
Car rental giant Avis is notifying hundreds of thousands of people that their personal information and driver’s license numbers were stolen in an August cyberattack. The New Jersey-headquartered company said in a data breach notice filed…
Laundry giant CSC ServiceWorks says tens of thousands of people had their personal information stolen from its systems after recently disclosing a cyberattack from 2023. The New York-based laundry giant provides over a million internet-connected…
A cyberattack on Mobile Guardian, a U.K.-based provider of educational device management software, has sparked outages at schools across the world and has left thousands of students unable to access their files. Mobile Guardian acknowledged…
ICICI Bank, one of India’s top private banks, exposed the sensitive data of thousands of new credit cards to customers who were not their intended recipients. The Mumbai-based bank confirmed to TechCrunch Thursday that its…
Palo Alto Networks urged companies this week to patch against a newly discovered zero-day vulnerability in one of its widely used security products, after malicious hackers began exploiting the bug to break into corporate networks.…