Lawrence Abrams
Author Bio
Lawrence Abrams is the owner and Editor in Chief of BleepingComputer.com. Lawrence’s area of expertise includes Windows, security, malware research, ransomware, and computer forensics. Lawrence Abrams is also a co-author of the Winternals Defragmentation, Recovery, and Administration Field Guide and technical editor for Rootkits for Dummies.
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The Week in Ransomware - January 26th 2024 - Govts strike back
Governments struck back this week against members of ransomware operations, imposing sanctions on one threat actor and sentencing another to prison.
- January 27, 2024
- 12:19 PM
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HPE: Russian hackers breached its security team’s email accounts
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) disclosed today that suspected Russian hackers known as Midnight Blizzard gained access to the company's Microsoft Office 365 email environment to steal data from its cybersecurity team and other departments.
- January 24, 2024
- 04:50 PM
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Trello API abused to link email addresses to 15 million accounts
An exposed Trello API allows linking private email addresses with Trello accounts, enabling the creation of millions of data profiles containing both public and private information.
- January 23, 2024
- 04:31 PM
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SEC confirms X account was hacked in SIM swapping attack
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission confirmed today that its X account was hacked through a SIM-swapping attack on the cell phone number associated with the account.
- January 22, 2024
- 06:04 PM
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Tietoevry ransomware attack causes outages for Swedish firms, cities
Finnish IT services and enterprise cloud hosting provider Tietoevry has suffered an Akira ransomware attack impacting cloud hosting customers in one of its data centers in Sweden.
- January 21, 2024
- 03:13 PM
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Watch out for "I can't believe he is gone" Facebook phishing posts
A widespread Facebook phishing campaign stating, "I can't believe he is gone. I'm gonna miss him so much," leads unsuspecting users to a website that steals your Facebook credentials.
- January 21, 2024
- 11:19 AM
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Russian hackers stole Microsoft corporate emails in month-long breach
Microsoft warned Friday night that some of its corporate email accounts were breached and data stolen by a Russian state-sponsored hacking group known as Midnight Blizzard.
- January 19, 2024
- 07:02 PM
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BreachForums hacking forum admin sentenced to 20 years supervised release
Conor Brian Fitzpatrick was sentenced to 20 years of supervised release today in the Eastern District of Virginia for operating the notorious BreachForums hacking forum, known for the sale and leaking of personal data for hundreds of millions of people worldwide.
- January 19, 2024
- 06:20 PM
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Have I Been Pwned adds 71 million emails from Naz.API stolen account list
Have I Been Pwned has added almost 71 million email addresses associated with stolen accounts in the Naz.API dataset to its data breach notification service.
- January 17, 2024
- 05:06 PM
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The Week in Ransomware - January 12th 2024 - Targeting homeowners' data
Mortgage lenders and related companies are becoming popular targets of ransomware gangs, with four companies in this sector recently attacked.
- January 12, 2024
- 05:06 PM
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Halara probes breach after hacker leaks data for 950,000 people
Popular athleisure clothing brand Halara is investigating a data breach after the alleged data of almost 950,000 customers was leaked on a hacking forum.
- January 11, 2024
- 03:28 PM
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Windows 10 KB5034441 security update fails with 0x80070643 errors
Windows 10 users worldwide report problems installing Microsoft's January Patch Tuesday updates, getting 0x80070643 errors when attempting to install the KB5034441 security update for BitLocker.
- January 10, 2024
- 11:56 AM
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US SEC’s X account hacked to announce fake Bitcoin ETF approval
The X account for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission was hacked today to issue a fake announcement on the approval of Bitcoin ETFs on security exchanges.
- January 09, 2024
- 05:30 PM
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China claims it cracked Apple's AirDrop to find numbers, email addresses
A Chinese state-backed research institute claims to have discovered how to decrypt device logs for Apple's AirDrop feature, allowing the government to identify phone numbers or email addresses of those who shared content.
- January 09, 2024
- 04:46 PM
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Windows 10 KB5034122 update released with fix for shut down bug
Microsoft has released the KB5034122 cumulative update for Windows 10 21H2 and Windows 10 22H2, which includes only a small number of fixes due to the holiday season.
- January 09, 2024
- 02:48 PM
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