Ax Sharma
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Staples-owned Essendant facing multi-day "outage," orders frozen
Staples-owned Essendant, a wholesale distributor of stationary and office supplies, is experiencing a multi-day systems "outage" preventing customers and suppliers from placing and fulfilling online orders. → Read More
Dish Network goes down in a mysterious outage, employees cut off
American TV giant and satellite broadcast provider, Dish Network has mysteriously gone offline with its websites and apps ceasing to function over the past 24 hours. → Read More
TELUS investigating leak of stolen source code, employee data
Canada's second-largest telecom, TELUS is investigating a potential data breach after a threat actor shared samples online of what appears to be employee data. The threat actor subsequently shared screenshots apparently showing private source code repositories and payroll records held by the company. → Read More
Eurostar forces 'password resets' — then fails and locks users out
Eurostar is emailing its users this week, forcing them to reset their account passwords in a bid to "upgrade" security. But when users visit the password reset link, they are met with "technical problems," thereby making it impossible to reset their password or access their account. → Read More
Ransomware hits Technion university, protests tech layoffs and Israel
A new ransomware group going by the name 'DarkBit' has hit Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, one of Israel's leading research universities. The ransom note posted by DarkBit is littered with messaging protesting tech layoffs and promoting anti-Israel rhetoric, as well as the group demanding a $1.7 million payment. → Read More
Microsoft WinGet package manager failing from expired SSL certificate
Microsoft's WinGet package manager is currently having problems installing or upgrading packages after WinGet CDN's SSL/TLS certificate expired. → Read More
PayPal and Twitter abused in Turkey relief donation scams
Scammers are now exploiting the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Turkey and Syria: this time stealing donations by abusing legitimate platforms like PayPal and Twitter. → Read More
Bermuda hit by widespread internet outage amid power cut
Bermuda experienced a widespread power outage on Friday which impacted the island's internet and phone services. Calling it a "serious incident" at BELCO, the Bermudian power supplier, the government has advised customers to "unplug all sensitive electrical equipment" as crews work around the clock on restoration efforts. → Read More
U.S. No Fly list shared on a hacking forum, government investigating
A U.S. No Fly list with over 1.5 million records of banned flyers and upwards of 250,000 'selectees' has been shared publicly on a hacking forum. BleepingComputer has confirmed, the list is the same TSA No Fly list that was discovered recently on an unsecured CommuteAir server. → Read More
Google Ads invites being abused to push spam, adult sites
Google Ads invites are being abused to deliver messages promoting spam and sex websites to users otherwise not necessarily using Google Ads or related products. → Read More
Slack's private GitHub code repositories stolen over holidays
Slack suffered a security incident over the holidays affecting some of its private GitHub code repositories. → Read More
CircleCI warns of security breach — rotate your secrets!
CircleCI, a software development service has disclosed a security incident and is urging users to rotate their secrets. The CI/CD platform touts having a user base comprising more than one million engineers who rely on the service for "speed and reliability" of their builds. → Read More
PyTorch discloses malicious dependency chain compromise over holidays
PyTorch has identified a malicious dependency with the same name as the framework's 'torchtriton' library. This has led to a successful compromise via the dependency confusion attack vector. → Read More
Okta's source code stolen after GitHub repositories hacked
In a 'confidential' email notification sent by Okta and seen by BleepingComputer, the company states that attackers gained access to its GitHub repositories this month and stole the company's source code. → Read More
Elon Musk's Twitter followers targeted in fake crypto giveaway scam
Twitter accounts giving Elon Musk a follow are being targeted in a crypto giveaway scam dubbed 'Freedom Giveaway.' → Read More
OpenAI's new ChatGPT bot: 10 dangerous things it's capable of
OpenAI's newly unveiled ChatGPT bot is making waves when it comes to all the amazing things it can do—from writing music to coding to generating vulnerability exploits, and what not. As the erudite machinery turns into a viral sensation, humans have started to discover some of the AI's biases, like the desire to wipe out humanity. → Read More
OpenAI's new ChatGPT bot: 10 coolest things you can do with it
From precisely spotting security vulnerabilities in your code, to writing an entire block of functional code on a whim, to opening portals to another dimension, OpenAI's newly launched ChatGPT is a game changer with its possibilities seeming limited only by your limitedness. → Read More
Open source software host Fosshost shutting down as CEO unreachable
Open source software hosting provider Fosshost will no longer be providing services as it reaches end of life. Fosshost project volunteers announced the development this weekend following months of difficulties in reaching the leadership including the CEO. → Read More
Backdoored Chrome extension installed by 200,000 Roblox players
Chrome browser extension 'SearchBlox' installed by more than 200,000 users has been discovered to contain a backdoor that can steal your Roblox credentials as well as your assets on Rolimons, a Roblox trading platform. → Read More
'Welcome Back'— Donald Trump returns to Twitter after Elon Musk's poll
In a surprising move, Twitter has lifted the "permanent suspension" of former U.S. President Donald Trump's account. The move follows a Twitter poll ran by Elon Musk that asked users whether to reinstate Trump's account—the majority of 15 million respondents answered affirmatively. → Read More