Cloudflare has successfully recovered its services after a second outage in the space of three weeks briefly took down Cloudflare Dashboard and related APIs, knocking out multiple online services. The issues surfaced shortly after 9am GMT (4am EST) and left users unable to access sites such as Canva, Coinbase, LinkedIn, SubStack, X, Zoom, and once…
A remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the React JavaScript library, which earlier today caused disruption across the internet as Cloudflare pushed mitigations live on its network, is now being exploited by multiple threat actors at scale, according to reports. Maintained by Meta, React is an open source resource designed to enable developers to build…
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Web traffic protection specialist Cloudflare has issued an apology to its customers after an unspecified outage affecting its Access zero-trust platform downed multiple public-facing services, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, outage information aggregator DownDetector and social media platform X. The issue at Cloudflare, which is well known for its frontline cyber defensive work in blocking distributed denial…
Cloudflare co-founder and CEO Matthew Prince has described the Tuesday 18 November hiccup that disrupted global internet traffic for hours as the organisation’s worst outage since 2019, saying that the traffic management giant has not experienced an issue that has caused the majority of core traffic to stop flowing through its network in more than…
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Investigators from Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) have disrupted the network behind the dangerous RaccoonO365 infostealer malware that targeted the usernames and credentials of Office 365 users after being granted a court order in the Southern District of New York. The operation saw a total of 338 websites linked to the popular malware seized and…
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Photo Agency/Shutterstock From the initial release of GPT-5, the company’s latest model, to a big personality change that made GPT-5 warmer, OpenAI has been in the headlines virtually every day lately. Now, it seems like the company is weighing another big addition to ChatGPT, which has become one of the most used AI chatbots on…
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A broad coalition of technology partners and law enforcement agencies, spearheaded by Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU), has disrupted the dangerous Lumma Stealer malware-as-a-service (MaaS) operation, which played a key role in the arsenals of multiple cyber criminal gangs, including ransomware crews. Using a court order granted in the US District Court of the Northern…
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The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is expanding a free cyber defence service to all schools across the country, helping the heavily at-risk education sector enhance its resilience at no cost. The expansion follows a successful roll-out of the NCSC’s Protective Domain Name Service (PDNS) for schools in 2023, and the enhanced service will…
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It has long been held that a surefire way for anybody to protect themselves – and their employer – from falling victim to a cyber attack was not to download any unexpected email attachments, but according to email security specialist Mimecast, cyber criminals seem to be moving away from this tactic. In the first six…
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