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FBI says business email compromise is a $43 billion scam

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today that the amount of money lost to business email compromise (BEC) scams continues to grow each year, with a 65% increase in the identified global exposed losses between July 2019 and December 2021. [...]
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Heroku forces user password resets but fails to explain why

Salesforce-owned Heroku is performing a forced password reset on a subset of user accounts in response to last month's security incident while providing no information as to why they are doing so other than vaguely mentioning it is to further secure accounts. [...]
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Pixiv, DeviantArt artists hit by NFT job offers pushing malware

Users on Pixiv, DeviantArt, and other creator-oriented online platforms report receiving multiple messages from people claiming to be from the "Cyberpunk Ape Executives" NFT project, with the main goal to infect artists' devices with information-stealing malware. [...]
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Heroku admits to customer database hack after OAuth token theft

Heroku has now revealed that the stolen GitHub integration OAuth tokens from last month further led to the compromise of an internal customer database. The Salesforce-owned cloud platform acknowledged the same compromised token was used by attackers to exfiltrate customers' hashed and salted passwords from "a database." [...]
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Heroku admits that customer credentials were stolen in cyberattack

Heroku has now revealed that the stolen GitHub integration OAuth tokens from last month further led to the compromise of an internal customer database. The Salesforce-owned cloud platform acknowledged the same compromised token was used by attackers to exfiltrate customers' hashed and salted passwords from "a database." [...]
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New NetDooka malware spreads via poisoned search results

A new malware framework known as NetDooka has been discovered being distributed through the PrivateLoader pay-per-install (PPI) malware distribution service, allowing threat actors full access to an infected device. [...]
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Google Docs crashes on seeing "And. And. And. And. And."

A bug in Google Docs is causing it to crash when a series of words are typed into a document opened with the online word processor. BleepingComputer was able to reproduce the issue last night and reached out to Google. [...]
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SheetJS ditches npm registry over 2FA requirement and 'legal matters'

In a surprising move, the popular open source project, SheetJS aka "xlsx," has dropped support for the npm registry. Downloaded about 1.4 million times every week on npm, SheetJS is relied upon by NodeJS developers looking to craft and parse Excel spreadsheets using nothing but JavaScript. [...]