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Symantec details an ongoing campaign by the Witchetty hacking group, potentially tied to a China-backed threat actor, that hides malware in a Windows logo image (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

18 hours ago

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Symantec details an ongoing campaign by the Witchetty hacking group, potentially tied to a China-backed threat…

Brave says it will hide and block cookie consent notifications with an approach "more privacy-preserving" than similar systems used in other browsers (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

3 days ago

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Brave says it will hide and block cookie consent notifications with an approach “more privacy-preserving” than…

Researchers find 75 apps on Google Play and 10 on Apple's App Store that engaged in ad fraud, collectively had 13M installs, and have since been removed (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

6 days ago

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Researchers find 75 apps on Google Play and 10 on Apple’s App Store that engaged in…

Report: ransomware gangs are using intermittent encryption, where files are partly encrypted, to evade detection tools looking for intense file I/O operations (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

3 weeks ago

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Report: ransomware gangs are using intermittent encryption, where files are partly encrypted, to evade detection tools…

Kaspersky details how the North Korean APT Kimsuky is using a multi-stage validation scheme to ensure their malware is only downloaded by specific targets (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

August 27, 2022

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Kaspersky details how the North Korean APT Kimsuky is using a multi-stage validation scheme to ensure…

Researchers detail Dark Utilities, a new service that provides an inexpensive way for cybercriminals to set up a command and control center for their operations (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

August 6, 2022

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Researchers detail Dark Utilities, a new service that provides an inexpensive way for cybercriminals to set…

Scans of MySQL server instances by Shadowserver analysts found 2.3M exposed servers on IPv4 and 1.3M on IPv6 devices (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

June 1, 2022

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Scans of MySQL server instances by Shadowserver analysts found 2.3M exposed servers on IPv4 and 1.3M…

Researchers devise a BLE relay attack that lets a hacker unlock and operate a Tesla outside its BLE range; Tesla said in April that it was a "known limitation" (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

May 17, 2022

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Researchers devise a BLE relay attack that lets a hacker unlock and operate a Tesla outside…

UK sanctions Baikal Electronics and MCST, Russia's most important chipmakers, denying them access to the ARM architecture (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

May 7, 2022

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: UK sanctions Baikal Electronics and MCST, Russia’s most important chipmakers, denying them access to the ARM…

Wyze had been aware of several vulnerabilities in its home security cameras for months and years without fixing them, despite being warned by Bitdefender (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

March 31, 2022

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Wyze had been aware of several vulnerabilities in its home security cameras for months and years…