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Police bust pirate streaming service making €250 million per month

An international law enforcement operation has dismantled a pirate streaming service that served over 22 million users worldwide and made €250 million ($263M) per month. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/police-bust-pirate-streaming-service-making-250-million-per-month/
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Cloudflare says it lost 55% of logs pushed to customers for 3.5 hours

Internet security giant Cloudflare announced that it lost 55% of all logs pushed to customers over a 3.5-hour period due to a bug in the log collection service on November 14, 2024. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cloudflare-says-it-lost-55-percent-of-logs-pushed-to-customers-for-35-hours/
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Chinese hackers breached T-Mobile's routers to scope out network

T-Mobile says the Chinese "Salt Typhoon" hackers who recently compromised its systems as part of a series of telecom breaches first hacked into some of its routers to explore ways to navigate laterally through the network.  [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/chinese-hackers-breached-t-mobiles-routers-to-scope-out-network/
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Researchers discover first UEFI bootkit malware for Linux

The first UEFI bootkit specifically targeting Linux systems has been discovered, marking a shift in stealthy and hard-to-remove bootkit threats that previously focused on Windows. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/researchers-discover-bootkitty-first-uefi-bootkit-malware-for-linux/
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Microsoft says it's not using your Word, Excel data for AI training

​Microsoft has denied claims that it uses Microsoft 365 apps (including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) to collect data to train the company's artificial intelligence (AI) models. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-says-its-not-using-your-word-excel-data-for-ai-training/
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Hackers exploit ProjectSend flaw to backdoor exposed servers

Threat actors are using public exploits for a critical authentication bypass flaw in ProjectSend to upload webshells and gain remote access to servers. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-exploit-projectsend-flaw-to-backdoor-exposed-servers/
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Hackers abuse popular Godot game engine to infect thousands of PCs

​Hackers have used new GodLoader malware exploiting the capabilities of the widely used Godot game engine to evade detection and infect over 17,000 systems in just three months. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-godloader-malware-infects-thousands-of-gamers-using-godot-scripts/
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Microsoft re-releases Exchange updates after fixing mail delivery

​Microsoft has re-released the November 2024 security updates for Exchange Server after pulling them earlier this month due to email delivery issues on servers using custom mail flow rules. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-re-releases-exchange-updates-after-fixing-mail-delivery/
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UK hospital network postpones procedures after cyberattack

Major UK healthcare provider Wirral University Teaching Hospital (WUTH), part of the NHS Foundation Trust, has suffered a cyberattack that caused a systems outage leading to postponing appointments and scheduled procedures. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/uk-hospital-network-postpones-procedures-after-cyberattack/
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Tor needs 200 new WebTunnel bridges to fight censorship

The Tor Project has put out an urgent call to the privacy community asking volunteers to help deploy 200 new WebTunnel bridges by the end of the year to fight government censorship. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/tor-needs-200-new-webtunnel-bridges-to-fight-censorship/
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New Windows Server 2012 zero-day gets free, unofficial patches

Free unofficial security patches have been released through the 0patch platform to address a zero-day vulnerability introduced over two years ago in the Windows Mark of the Web (MotW) security mechanism. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-windows-server-2012-zero-day-gets-free-unofficial-patches/
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Russia arrests cybercriminal Wazawaka for ties with ransomware gangs

Russian law enforcement has arrested and indicted notorious ransomware affiliate Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev (also known as Wazawaka, Uhodiransomwar, m1x, and Boriselcin) for developing malware and his involvement in several hacking groups. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/russia-arrests-cybercriminal-wazawaka-for-ties-with-ransomware-gangs/
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New Rockstar 2FA phishing service targets Microsoft 365 accounts

A new phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform named 'Rockstar 2FA' has emerged, facilitating large-scale adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) attacks to steal Microsoft 365 credentials. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-rockstar-2fa-phishing-service-targets-microsoft-365-accounts/
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SpyLoan Android malware on Google play installed 8 million times

A new set of 15 SpyLoan apps with over 8 million installs was discovered on Google Play, targeting primarily users from South America, Southeast Asia, and Africa. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/spyloan-android-malware-on-google-play-installed-8-million-times/
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Novel phising campaign uses corrupted Word documents to evade security

A novel phishing attack abuses Microsoft's Word file recovery feature by sending corrupted Word documents as email attachments, allowing them to bypass security software due to their damaged state but still be recoverable by the application. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/novel-phising-campaign-uses-corrupted-word-documents-to-evade-security/
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BootKitty UEFI malware exploits LogoFAIL to infect Linux systems

The recently uncovered 'Bootkitty' UEFI bootkit, the first malware of its kind targeting Linux systems, exploits CVE-2023-40238, aka 'LogoFAIL,' to infect computers running on a vulnerable UEFI firmware. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/bootkitty-uefi-malware-exploits-logofail-to-infect-linux-systems/
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