Days after the disclosure of a critical vulnerability in popular web hosting software cPanel and WHM, hackers keep targeting and hacking websites.
A group of hacktivists have claimed responsibility for a distributed denial-of-service attack, which has affected several Ubuntu and Canonical websites, and prevented users from updating the Linux-based operating system.
Web hosts are scrambling to fix the bug under active attack by hackers. One company said hackers have been abusing the bug for months.
The government of Sri Lanka has lost more than $3 million in two recent, separate cybersecurity incidents as the country continues to recover from its 2022 debt crisis.
The American technology giant provides water and energy monitoring and utility meters to hundreds of millions of homes and businesses.
The cosmetics retailer, which counts 41 million customers in its membership data, declined to provide an accurate total number of customers affected.
The DDoS attack against Mastodon’s flagship server comes less than a week after Bluesky was targeted with junk web traffic.
Vercel blamed its breach on an earlier hack at Context AI, which allowed hackers to hijack a Vercel employee’s account to steal customer data.
Sweden’s minister for civil defense said Russian hackers are “now attempting destructive cyber attacks against organizations in Europe.”
Dozens of WordPress plug-ins were allegedly hijacked to push malware after they were sold to a new corporate owner.