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Blue screen of death outage affected around 8.5 million devices

A faulty update from cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike caused a global outage last Friday, apparently affecting some 8.5 million Windows devices, according to Microsoft itself. The update triggered a blue screen of death (BSOD), knocking offline systems used by hospitals, airlines,…

Cybercriminals Exploit CrowdStrike Outage Chaos

Cybercriminals are leveraging the ongoing mass global IT outage to launch phishing campaigns, according to reports. CrowdStrike Intelligence warned that threat actors quickly used the IT outage, caused by a bug in a content update for the CrowdStrike Falcon cybersecurity…

Two Russians Convicted for Role in LockBit Attacks

Two Russian nationals have pleaded guilty to their participation in the notorious LockBit ransomware gang, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) has announced. Ruslan Magomedovich Astamirov, aged 34, and Mikhail Vasiliev, aged 34, pleaded guilty to a range of charges…

SocGholish Malware Exploits BOINC Project for Covert Cyberattacks

Jul 22, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Malware The JavaScript downloader malware known as SocGholish (aka FakeUpdates) is being used to deliver a remote access trojan called AsyncRAT as well as a legitimate open-source project called BOINC. BOINC, short for Berkeley Open Infrastructure…