Catalin Cimpanu
Catalin Cimpanu is a cybersecurity reporter for The Record. He previously worked at ZDNet and Bleeping Computer, where he became a well-known name in the industry for his constant scoops on new vulnerabilities, cyberattacks, and law enforcement actions against hackers.
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Cloudflare says new hCaptcha bypass doesn’t impact its implementation
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- . April 5, 2021
Web infrastructure and website security provider Cloudflare told The Record last week that a recent academic paper detailing a method to bypass the hCaptcha image-based challenge system does not impact its implementation.

Phone numbers for 533 million Facebook users leaked on hacking forum
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- . April 3, 2021
A threat actor has published the phone numbers and account details for an estimated 533 million Facebook users —about a fifth of the entire social network’s user pool— on a publicly accessible cybercrime forum.

GitHub investigating crypto-mining campaign abusing its server infrastructure
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- . April 2, 2021
Code-hosting service GitHub is actively investigating a series of attacks against its cloud infrastructure that allowed cybercriminals to implant and abuse the company’s servers for illicit crypto-mining operations, a spokesperson told The Record today.

US says APTs are using Fortinet bugs to gain initial access for future attacks
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- . April 2, 2021
In a joint security alert published today, on Friday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said they’d observed multiple state-sponsored hacking groups scanning the web for Fortinet devices in order to find and gain access to sensitive networks so they could launch future attacks.

AMD Zen 3 CPUs vulnerable to Spectre-like attacks via PSF feature
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- . April 2, 2021
US chipmaker AMD advised customers last week to disable a new performance feature if they plan to use CPUs for sensitive operations, as this feature is vulnerable to Spectre-like side-channel attacks.

Google to restrict Android apps from viewing other apps installed on the same device
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- . April 1, 2021
Google has announced plans today to restrict the ability of Android apps from seeing what other applications are installed on the same device, citing privacy and security reasons.

In a rare step, Activision warns CoD players of malware hidden in cheat apps
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- . April 1, 2021
In a rare step for a company that seldomly issues security warnings, gaming giant Activision published research yesterday detailing how cybercriminals are hiding malware inside Call of Duty: Warzone cheats, warning users to stay away from such offers.

Ubiquiti confirms it was the target of an extortion attempt, but nothing more
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- . April 1, 2021
Networking equipment and IoT device vendor Ubiquiti Networks released a statement late last night confirming some of the details exposed

Google: North Korean hackers are still targeting security researchers
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- . March 31, 2021
The North Korean government-backed hackers who spent last year trying to lure security professionals to malicious sites to infect their systems with malware have returned with new attacks.

Man charged for hacking Kansas water utility with intent to harm public
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- . March 31, 2021
The US Department of Justice has indicted today a Kansas man on charges of hacking into the computer system of a local water utility and trying to sabotage water processing operations with the intent to harm the local public.