Security News

Active Directory outages can cost organizations $100,000 per day
2024-02-21 04:00

Nearly every organization has core systems services tied to Active Directory that will go down during an outage, according to Cayosoft. The report revealed a 172% increase in forest-wide Active Directory outages since 2021, due to a confluence of factors including escalating cyberattacks, the growing complexity of hybrid environments, and human error.

Wyze investigating 'security issue' amid ongoing outage
2024-02-16 21:42

Wyze Labs is investigating a security issue while experiencing a service outage that has been causing connectivity issues since this morning. "We are aware of an issue with our AWS partner which has impacted device connection and caused login difficulties. We are taking steps to mitigate the problem on our end as we work with AWS to resolve the issue," the company said.

Microsoft Teams hit by second outage in three days
2024-01-29 15:13

Microsoft is investigating a second outage affecting Microsoft Teams users across North and South America in the last three days. "We're investigating an issue in which users may be unable to access Microsoft Teams or features within North America, Canada, and Brazil," Microsoft said via the company's official Microsoft 365 status account on X. Teams users affected by these ongoing issues can find more information in an incident report tagged as TM710900 in the Microsoft 365 admin center.

Microsoft Teams outage causes connection issues, message delays
2024-01-26 17:49

Microsoft is investigating an ongoing and widespread outage impacting the users of its Teams communication platform and causing connectivity issues, login problems, and message delays."We've identified a networking issue impacting a portion of the Teams service and we're performing a failover to remediate impact. Additional information can be found under TM710344 in the admin center," tweeted the official Microsoft account for updates on Microsoft365 service incidents.

Major IT outage at Europe's largest caravan and RV club makes for not-so-happy campers
2024-01-24 17:30

The UK's Caravan and Motorhome Club is battling a suspected cyberattack with members reporting widespread IT outages for the past five days. Multiple CAMC members approached The Register to complain about the outages, which according to their accounts have caused near-total digital disruption at the company that represents 1 million members.

Tietoevry ransomware attack causes outages for Swedish firms, cities
2024-01-21 20:13

Finnish IT services and enterprise cloud hosting provider Tietoevry has suffered a ransomware attack impacting cloud hosting customers in one of its data centers in Sweden, with the attack reportedly conducted by the Akira ransomware gang. Tietoevry confirmed today that the ransomware attack occurred Friday night into Saturday morning and has impacted only one of their data centers in Sweden.

Jira down: Atlassian outage affecting multiple cloud services
2024-01-18 09:47

Multiple Atlassian Jira products are experiencing an ongoing outage as of this morning. BleepingComputer can confirm that Jira services are experiencing connection issues since this morning, at least as of 3:45 AM Eastern time.

Major T-Mobile outage takes down account access, mobile app
2024-01-11 23:21

A major T-Mobile outage is preventing customers from logging into their accounts and using the company's mobile app. T-Mobile users trying to access their accounts receive an error warning that the mobile carrier's website has been "Unplugged."

Box cloud storage down amid 'critical' outage
2023-12-15 15:36

Cloud storage provider Box is down in a 'critical' outage, preventing customers from accessing their files. The outage started at approximately 9 AM ET, with the company stating that it is a critical outage impacting logins, uploads, downloads, and API calls.

ALPHV ransomware site outage rumored to be caused by law enforcement
2023-12-08 18:30

A law enforcement operation is rumored to be behind an outage affecting ALPHV ransomware gang's websites over the last 30 hours. BleepingComputer suspects that the ransomware gang may have suffered potential law enforcement action after their recent activities, which was also hinted at by others.