Security News > 2023 > January > BleepingComputer's most popular cybersecurity stories of 2022
It was a big year for cybersecurity in 2022 with massive cyberattacks and data breaches, innovative phishing attacks, privacy concerns, and of course, zero-day vulnerabilities.
Below are the ten most popular stories at BleepingComputer during 2022, with a summary of each.
The developer of the very popular npm package named 'node-ipc' released sabotaged versions of the library that deleting all data and overwriting all files on developer's machines, in addition to creating new text files with "Peace" messages.
GIFShell attack creates reverse shell using Microsoft Teams GIFs.
A new social engineering attack allowed for a method that could be used to abuse Microsoft Teams for phishing attacks and covertly executing commands to steal data using GIFs.
Security researchers discovered that the desktop app for Microsoft Teams saved authentication tokens in clear text in various locations of Windows.