Security News > 2024 > November

Microsoft warns Azure Virtual Desktop users of black screen issues
2024-11-01 23:20

Microsoft warned customers they might experience up to 30 minutes of black screens when logging into Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) after installing the KB5040525 Windows 10 July 2024 preview update. [...]

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Sculpture in Massachusetts Building
2024-11-01 21:04

Great blow-up sculpture. Blog moderation policy.

LA housing authority confirms breach claimed by Cactus ransomware
2024-11-01 20:30

The Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA), one of the largest public housing authorities in the United States, confirmed that a cyberattack hit its IT network after recent breach...

OpenAI's new ChatGPT Search Chrome extension feels like a search hijacker
2024-11-01 20:25

OpenAI's new "ChatGPT search" Chrome extension feels like nothing more than a typical search hijacker, changing Chrome's settings so your address bar searches go through ChatGPT Search instead. [...]

LastPass warns of fake support centers trying to steal customer data
2024-11-01 17:51

LastPass is warning about an ongoing campaign where scammers are writing reviews for its Chrome extension to promote a fake customer support phone number. However, this phone number is part of a...

Synology hurries out patches for zero-days exploited at Pwn2Own
2024-11-01 16:38

Synology, a Taiwanese network-attached storage (NAS) appliance maker, patched two critical zero-days exploited during last week's Pwn2Own hacking competition within days. [...]

DDoS site Dstat.cc seized and two suspects arrested in Germany
2024-11-01 14:50

The Dstat.cc DDoS review platform has been seized by law enforcement, and two suspects have been arrested after the service helped fuel distributed denial-of-service attacks for years. [...]

Inside Iran’s Cyber Playbook: AI, Fake Hosting, and Psychological Warfare
2024-11-01 14:09

U.S. and Israeli cybersecurity agencies have published a new advisory attributing an Iranian cyber group to targeting the 2024 Summer Olympics and compromising a French commercial dynamic display...

UK councils bat away DDoS barrage from pro-Russia keyboard warriors
2024-11-01 10:58

Local authority websites downed in response to renewed support for Ukraine Multiple UK councils had their websites either knocked offline or were inaccessible to residents this week after...

Massive Git Config Breach Exposes 15,000 Credentials; 10,000 Private Repos Cloned
2024-11-01 10:27

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a "massive" campaign that targets exposed Git configurations to siphon credentials, clone private repositories, and even extract cloud credentials from the...