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A widespread internet outage in Canada was caused by 'maintenance', 4chan users claim to have hacked Hunter Biden's iCloud, and 23M accounts have been exposed on Mangatoon...

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Jul 11
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Canada's internet outage caused by 'maintenance'

One of Canada's largest mobile and internet providers, Rogers, has apologised for the country-wide outage of its services which began on Friday. The company's CEO Tony Staffieri said the failure followed "a maintenance update in our core network". Transport, banking and…

4chan users claim to have hacked Hunter Biden’s iCloud account

The contents of Hunter Biden's iCloud account have allegedly been hacked by users of the 4chan community, where screenshots purporting to be from his phone and computer were being posted on their main political forum late Saturday night. Administrators on the…

Mangatoon data breach exposes data from 23 million accounts

Comic reading platform Mangatoon has suffered a data breach that exposed information belonging to 23 million user accounts after a hacker stole it from an unsecured Elasticsearch database. Mangatoon is also a very popular iOS and Android app used by millions of users…

Medical debt collection firm says ransomware attack exposed info on 650+ healthcare orgs

A February ransomware attack on a medical debt collection company caused a widespread data breach affecting 657 healthcare organizations. In a statement issued late last week, Professional Finance Company said that during the attack the ransomware group gained…

Hackers Exploiting Follina Bug to Deploy Rozena Backdoor

A newly observed phishing campaign is leveraging the recently disclosed Follina security vulnerability to distribute a previously undocumented backdoor on Windows systems. "Rozena is a backdoor malware that is capable of injecting a remote shell connection back…

Hack Allows Drone Takeover Via ‘ExpressLRS’ Protocol

A radio control system for drones is vulnerable to remote takeover, thanks to a weakness in the mechanism that binds transmitter and receiver. The popular protocol for radio controlled (RC) aircraft called ExpressLRS can be hacked in only a few steps, according to a bulletin…

New 0mega ransomware targets businesses in double-extortion attacks

A new ransomware operation named ‘0mega’ targets organizations worldwide in double-extortion attacks and demands millions of dollars in ransoms. 0mega (spelled with a zero) is a new ransomware operation launched in May 2022 and has attacked numerous victims since…

French telecom company La Poste Mobile struggling to recover from ransomware attack

French mobile phone network La Poste Mobile is still struggling to recover from a ransomware attack that has crippled its administrative and management services. The company’s website is down, with a lengthy message to customers explaining that the ransomware attack began…

CEO charged with sale of counterfeit Cisco devices to govt, health orgs

Onur Aksoy, the CEO of a group of dozens of companies, was indicted for allegedly selling more than $1 billion worth of counterfeit Cisco network equipment to customers worldwide, including health, military, and government organizations. According to the criminal…

Researchers Warn of Raspberry Robin's Worm Targeting Windows Users

Cybersecurity researchers are drawing attention to an ongoing wave of attacks linked to a threat cluster tracked as Raspberry Robin that's behind a Windows malware with worm-like capabilities. Describing it as a "persistent" and "spreading" threat, Cybereason said it…

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