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T-Mobile hacker gets 10 years for $25 million phone unlock scheme

Argishti Khudaverdyan, the former owner of a T-Mobile retail store, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for a $25 million scheme where he unlocked and unblocked cellphones by hacking into T-Mobile's internal systems. [...]
Bleepingcomputer 18 Dec 2022 625 Views

Google introduces end-to-end encryption for Gmail on the web

Google announced on Friday that it's adding end-to-end encryption to Gmail on the web, allowing enrolled Google Workspace users to send and receive encrypted emails within their domain and outside their domain.  [...]
Bleepingcomputer 17 Dec 2022 734 Views

Hackers leak personal info allegedly stolen from 5.7M Gemini users

Gemini crypto exchange announced this week that customers were targeted in phishing campaigns after a threat actor collected their personal information from a third-party vendor. [...]
Bleepingcomputer 16 Dec 2022 902 Views

New GoTrim Botnet Attempting to Break into WordPress Sites' Admin Accounts

A new Go-based botnet has been spotted scanning and brute-forcing self-hosted websites using the WordPress content management system (CMS) to seize control of the targeted systems.
The Hacker News 15 Dec 2022 675 Views

Open-source repositories flooded by 144,000 phishing packages

Unknown threat actors have uploaded a massive 144,294 phishing-related packages on open-source package repositories, inluding NPM, PyPi, and NuGet.
Bleepingcomputer 15 Dec 2022 746 Views

LockBit claims attack on California's Department of Finance

The Department of Finance in California has been the target of a cyberattack now claimed by the LockBit ransomware gang. [...]
Bleepingcomputer 14 Dec 2022 663 Views

Microsoft-signed malicious Windows drivers used in ransomware attacks

Microsoft has revoked several Microsoft hardware developer accounts after drivers signed through their profiles were used in cyberattacks, including ransomware incidents. [...]
Bleepingcomputer 14 Dec 2022 843 Views

New Python malware backdoors VMware ESXi servers for remote access

A previously undocumented Python backdoor targeting VMware ESXi servers has been spotted, enabling hackers to execute commands remotely on a compromised system.
Bleeping Computer 13 Dec 2022 746 Views

Cisco discloses high-severity IP phone zero-day with exploit code

Cisco has disclosed today a high-severity zero-day vulnerability affecting the latest generation of its IP phones and exposing them to remote code execution and denial of service (DoS) attacks.
Bleepingcomputer 12 Dec 2022 650 Views

Hackers earn $989,750 for 63 zero-days exploited at Pwn2Own Toronto

Pwn2Own Toronto 2022 has ended with competitors earning $989,750 for 63 zero-day exploits (and multiple bug collisions) targeting consumer products between December 6th and December 9th.
Thehackernews 12 Dec 2022 844 Views