Sergiu Gatlan
Author Bio
Sergiu is a news reporter who has covered the latest cybersecurity and technology developments for over a decade. Email or Twitter DMs for tips.
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Android bug leaks DNS queries even when VPN kill switch is enabled
A Mullvad VPN user has discovered that Android devices leak DNS queries when switching VPN servers even though the "Always-on VPN" feature was enabled with the "Block connections without VPN" option.
- May 03, 2024
- 05:02 PM
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NSA warns of North Korean hackers exploiting weak DMARC email policies
The NSA and FBI warned that the APT43 North Korea-linked hacking group exploits weak email Domain-based Message Authentication Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) policies to mask spearphishing attacks.
- May 03, 2024
- 03:16 PM
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NATO and EU condemn Russia's cyberattacks against Germany, Czechia
NATO and the European Union, with international partners, formally condemned a long-term cyber espionage campaign against European countries conducted by the Russian threat group APT28.
- May 03, 2024
- 11:47 AM
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CEO who sold fake Cisco devices to US military gets 6 years in prison
Onur Aksoy, the CEO of a group of companies controlling multiple online storefronts, was sentenced to six and a half years in prison for selling $100 million worth of counterfeit Cisco network equipment to government, health, education, and military organizations worldwide.
- May 02, 2024
- 06:01 PM
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CISA urges software devs to weed out path traversal vulnerabilities
CISA and the FBI urged software companies today to review their products and eliminate path traversal security vulnerabilities before shipping.
- May 02, 2024
- 03:38 PM
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Police shuts down 12 fraud call centres, arrests 21 suspects
Law enforcement shut down 12 phone fraud call centers in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Lebanon, behind thousands of scam calls daily.
- May 02, 2024
- 02:21 PM
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Microsoft won't fix Windows 0x80070643 errors, manual fix required
Microsoft has confirmed that it won't provide an automated fix for a known issue causing 0x80070643 errors when installing recent Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) updates.
- May 02, 2024
- 10:06 AM
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Panda Restaurants discloses data breach after corporate systems hack
Panda Restaurant Group, the parent company of Panda Express, Panda Inn, and Hibachi-San, disclosed a data breach after attackers compromised its corporate systems in March and stole the personal information of an undisclosed number of individuals.
- May 01, 2024
- 01:35 PM
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CISA says GitLab account takeover bug is actively exploited in attacks
CISA warned today that attackers are actively exploiting a maximum-severity GitLab vulnerability that allows them to take over accounts via password resets.
- May 01, 2024
- 12:29 PM
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Microsoft: April Windows Server updates cause NTLM auth failures
Microsoft has confirmed customer reports of NTLM authentication failures and high load after installing last month's Windows Server security updates.
- May 01, 2024
- 11:17 AM
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Microsoft says April Windows updates break VPN connections
Microsoft says the April 2024 Windows security updates break VPN connections on Windows 11, Windows 10, and Windows Server systems.
- May 01, 2024
- 10:07 AM
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Data of over 25,000 people stolen in 2023 breach
Daily newspaper Philadelphia Inquirer revealed that attackers behind a May 2023 security breach have stolen the personal and financial information of 25,549 individuals.
- April 30, 2024
- 04:12 PM
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Google now pays up to $450,000 for RCE bugs in some Android apps
Google has increased rewards for reporting remote code execution vulnerabilities within select Android apps by ten times, from $30,000 to $300,000, with the maximum reward reaching $450,000 for exceptional quality reports.
- April 30, 2024
- 02:33 PM
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Millions of Docker repos found pushing malware, phishing sites
Three large-scale campaigns have targeted Docker Hub users, planting millions of repositories designed to push malware and phishing sites since early 2021.
- April 30, 2024
- 01:32 PM
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FCC fines carriers $200 million for illegally sharing user location
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has fined the largest U.S. wireless carriers almost $200 million for sharing their customers' real-time location data without their consent.
- April 29, 2024
- 03:41 PM
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