CyberNews A critical outage has struck OpenAI’s popular ChatGPT Work platform, leaving thousands of users facing frustrating errors and elevated latency. The issue, which began at around 11:04 AM ET on Monday, August 31, affects multiple subscription plans, with Plus subscribers bearing the brunt of the disruption. The outage is causing significant problems for users who … Read more
A Widespread Microsoft 365 Outage Brings Email Failures, Authentication Issues, and More A major service disruption has hit Microsoft’s cloud-based services, causing email failures, authentication issues, and other problems for tens of thousands of users worldwide. The outage, which began on August 31st, affects multiple services within the Microsoft 365 suite, including Exchange Online, OneDrive … Read more
A sophisticated new attack campaign, dubbed TerminalFix, has been discovered by Microsoft, targeting users with fake Cloudflare CAPTCHA prompts on compromised websites. This insidious tactic tricks victims into executing malicious PowerShell commands in Windows Terminal, paving the way for a multi-stage intrusion chain that ultimately grants attackers a reverse tunnel into the victim’s internal network. … Read more
A Widespread North Korean Job Scam Targets Healthcare and Sales Professionals, Exposing Identities Across Multiple Industries A sophisticated job scam originating from North Korea has been spreading rapidly across various industries, leaving a trail of identity exposure and potential active attack paths. What began as a targeted phishing campaign in the IT sector has now … Read more
Berlin’s city administration has been hit by a devastating Rhysida ransomware attack, with cybercriminals threatening to extort the city unless they pay up. The attack, which was discovered in mid-August, has left the city reeling as it attempts to assess the extent of the damage. According to the attackers, they have stolen an estimated 5.79 … Read more
A sophisticated threat actor, known as Chinese Fire Ant, has been using compromised Cisco routers as spying platforms, giving them a vantage point to observe traffic moving through trusted network paths. This alarming development has been uncovered by incident response company Sygnia, which has been tracking the group’s activities. Fire Ant’s new tactic involves turning … Read more
ChatGPT Work Experiences Partial Outage, Leaving Users Stuck A significant disruption has hit users of ChatGPT Work, a productivity tool offered by OpenAI, as they encounter errors and elevated latency while trying to start or continue tasks. The outage, which started around 11:04 AM ET on Monday, August 31, is affecting multiple subscription plans, with … Read more
A Widespread Microsoft Exchange Online Outage Causes Email Failures and Authentication Issues A critical service issue has affected tens of thousands of users relying on Microsoft’s Exchange Online platform, causing email delays and failures, authentication issues, and other problems. The company first acknowledged the incident at 5:30 PM UTC, after a stream of reports from … Read more
North Korean Cybercrime Rings Expand Their Reach, Targeting Healthcare and Sales Professionals In a disturbing trend, North Korean cybercrime rings have been increasingly exploiting job listings to gain access to sensitive information and launch targeted attacks on unsuspecting professionals. What was once confined to IT positions is now being extended to healthcare and sales sectors, … Read more
A sophisticated cyber threat group, known as Chinese Fire Ant, has been using compromised Cisco routers to gather sensitive information from organizations around the world. This new tactic involves leveraging administrative access to collect and analyze network traffic, essentially turning these devices into spying platforms. The discovery was made by researchers at incident response company … Read more