US government agencies’ chief information officers were recommended to disable third-party encrypted DNS services until an official DNS resolution service with DNS over HTTPS (DoH) and DNS over TLS (DoT) support is ready. […]
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The developers of Ninja Forms, a WordPress plugin with more than 1 million installations, have fixed a high severity security vulnerability that can let attackers inject malicious code and take over websites using an unpatched version of the plugin. […]
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Kaspersky has released an updated decryptor for the Shade Ransomware (Troldesh) that allows all victims who have their files encrypted to recover them for free. […]
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A new banking Trojan can steal financial information from Android users across the United States and across several European countries, including the UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, and France. […]
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Multiple threat actors running phishing attacks on corporate targets have been counting on Microsoft Sway service to trick victims into giving their Office 365 login credentials. […]
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Clop ransomware leaked files stolen from U.S pharmaceutical company ExecuPharm after ransom negotiations allegedly failed. […]
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Popular WordPress plugins for creating learning management systems (LMS) are rife with vulnerabilities that can be exploited to take control of the platform, get test answers, and modify grades. […]
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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) today issued an update to its Microsoft Office 365 security best practices as part of an alert distributed via the US National Cyber Awareness System. […]
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Google today updated the Chrome Web Store’s spam policy to block extension spam so that users can have a real chance to avoid potentially malicious extensions while sifting through 200,000 add-ons available in the store. […]
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Windows 10 is now making it easier to access the latest Coronavirus information via new buttons show in Windows Search. […]
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Microsoft has released Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19619 to Insiders in the Fast ring with fixes for frequent freezes on some systems, music controls to the Your Phone app, and quick access to COVID-19 info from search. […]
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Microsoft has released Sysmon 11, and it now comes with an important feature that allows you to monitor for and automatically archive deleted files on a monitored system. […]
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Multiple online services and products are leaking email data belonging to their users to third-party advertising and analytics companies, shows a recent research published today. […]
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Internet-exposed and poorly configured RDP servers from all over the globe are the target of an increasing number of brute-forcing attacks that have started since the beginning of March. […]
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Microsoft warns that malicious actors are taking advantage of the boost in traffic seen by movie piracy sites to infect victims with malware delivered via fake movie torrents. […]
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Rogue security software affiliates are sending emails that falsely tell recipients that their antivirus software is expiring and then prompt them to renew their license so that the affiliate can earn a commission from the sale. […]
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Microsoft warned today of ongoing human-operated ransomware campaigns targeting healthcare organizations and critical services, and shared tips on how to block new breaches by patching vulnerable internet-facing systems. […]
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Adobe has released security updates for Adobe Illustrator, Bridge, and Magento that fix numerous vulnerabilities, including ones that could allow remote code execution. […]
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A malicious campaign dubbed PhantomLance has been targeting users of Android devices with spyware payloads embedded in applications delivered via multiple platforms including Google’s Play Store and the alternative Android app store APKpure. […]
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A threat actor focusing on Android systems has expanded their malware-as-a-service (MaaS) business with file-encrypting capabilities for ransomware operations. […]
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As people socially isolate and work from home, shopping online and home deliveries have increased. Scammers are capitalizing on this by creating new scams using Coronavirus delivery issues as a lure to get people to visit malicious links or open malware. […]
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WordPress owners are advised to secure their websites by updating the Real-Time Find and Replace plugin to prevent attackers from injecting malicious code into their sites by exploiting a Cross-Site Request Forgery flaw. […]
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Twitter announced today that it has turned off the Twitter via SMS service because of security concerns, a service which allowed the social network’s users to tweet using text messages since its early beginnings. […]
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Microsoft is investigating Bluetooth issues, failures to install, blue screen reports received from users who have installed or attempted to install the KB4549951 cumulative update released during this month’s Patch Tuesday. […]
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The operators behind the Shade Ransomware (Troldesh) have shut down their operations, released over 750,000 decryption keys, and apologized for the harm they caused their victims. […]
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Some Sophos firewall products were attacked with a new Trojan malware, dubbed Asnarök by researchers cyber-security firm Sophos, to steal usernames and hashed passwords starting with April 22 according to an official timeline. […]
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After looking at how Microsoft Teams handles image resources, security researchers found a way to take over accounts by sending recipients a regular GIF. […]
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Microsoft allows Windows 10 Home, Pro and Enterprise customers to control when and how Windows 10 installs monthly and half-yearly updates. If a driver or update causes problems, you can delay updates, you can uninstall it and block Windows from downloading it again. […]
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Sophos has fixed a zero-day SQL injection vulnerability in their XG Firewall after receiving reports that hackers actively exploited it in attacks. […]
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If you want to show off what Windows Subsystem for Linux distribution you are using in Windows 10, you can do so in style using the WSLFetch utility. […]
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In their first Windows LTS release in two years, Canonical has released Ubuntu 20.04 for the Windows 10 Subsystem for Linux on the Microsoft Store. […]
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Microsoft’s Chromium-based Edge browser was released in January to consumers and enterprises and new features, and Microsoft has been busy adding new features to the browser to make it stand out from Google Chrome. […]
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There was not a lot of new variants released this week, but we did have some news such as the ransomware attack on Cognizant, the leaking of data for a California city, and the continued attacks on hospitals. […]
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Zoom users are targeted by a new phishing campaign that threatens those who work in corporate environments that they’re contracts will either be suspended or terminated during a Zoom meeting. […]
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With hundreds of thousands of small businesses in the USA anxiously awaiting news about their submitted Payroll Protection Program SBA loans, threat actors are sending phishing emails that prey on their anxiety to steal email accounts. […]
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An increase of 30,000% in pandemic-related malicious attacks and malware was seen in March by security researchers at cloud security firm Zscaler when compared to the beginning of 2020 when the first threats started using COVID-19-related lures and themes. […]
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A new phishing campaign is delivering a new stealthy backdoor from the developers of TrickBot that is used to compromise and gain full access to corporate networks. […]
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Faculty and students at several U.S. colleges and universities were targeted in phishing attacks with a remote access Trojan (RAT) previously used by Chinese state-sponsored threat actors. […]
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Details on roughly 400,000 payment cards related to US and South Korean financial organizations and banks are currently up for sale on Joker’s Stash, the largest and most popular carding shop on the Internet. […]
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Scammers have been sending out emails that impersonate the U.S. Federal reserve and lure recipients with financial relief options through the Payment Protection Program. […]
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The Windows 10 KB4549951 cumulative update is reportedly failing to install and is causing blue screens of death (BSOD) after installation reboots, among other issues, according to user reports. […]
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A video delivery platform company is the latest victim of the Sodinokibi Ransomware, who has posted images of data they claim to have stolen from the company during a cyberattack. […]
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Cyber-security firm GreyNoise Intelligence today announced the launch of GreyNoise Alerts, a new free service that will automatically notify you via email when any devices on your organization’s IP address range get hacked and start exhibiting potentially malicious behavior. […]
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The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) have jointly issued an advisory warning of threat actors increasingly exploiting vulnerable web servers to deploy web shells. […]
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Malwarebytes is expanding into privacy with the release of a new Windows VPN service called Malwarebytes Privacy. Malwarebytes plans on offering Mac, iOS, Android, and ChromeOS versions in the future. […]
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Attackers have deployed a phishing campaign against remote workers using Skype, luring them with emails that fake notifications from the service. […]
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The source code of Valve’s Team Fortress 2 and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive games was leaked today and published on the Internet for anyone to download. […]
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A new phishing campaign is underway that targets a company’s employees with fake customer complaints that install a new backdoor used to compromise a network. […]
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More than a dozen state-backed hacking groups are actively targeting U.S. Government employees and healthcare organizations in phishing campaigns that use lures designed to take advantage of the fears surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. […]
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Two zero-day vulnerabilities affecting iPhone and iPad devices were found by cybersecurity startup ZecOps after the discovery of a series of ongoing remote attacks that have targeted iOS users since at least January 2018. […]
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A Windows 10 kernel bug made it possible to escape Google Chrome’s sandbox, a security researcher with Google Project Zero found. The vulnerability was introduced with version 1903 of the operating system on May 21, 2019. […]
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The Tag Barnakle malvertising group is hacking into Revive ad servers to inject and deliver malicious advertisements on unwary visitors. […]
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Microsoft has released an out-of-band security update that fixes remote code execution vulnerabilities in an Autodesk FBX library integrated into Microsoft Office and Paint 3D applications. […]
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The City of Torrance of the Los Angeles metropolitan area, California, has allegedly been attacked by the DoppelPaymer Ransomware, having unencrypted data stolen and devices encrypted. […]
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The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) today warned of ongoing phishing campaigns targeting US healthcare providers using COVID-19 themed lures to distribute malicious attachments. […]
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Microsoft has released a Windows 10 update that fixes multiple bugs in Windows 10, version 1909 and Windows 10, version 1903, including issue causing Windows Update to stop responding and the lock screen to stop appearing. […]
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Four zero-day vulnerabilities found in an IBM enterprise security software were disclosed today by a security researcher after IBM refused to fix them and to accept the vulnerability report sent via CERT/CC. […]
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Microsoft 365 Personal and Family consumer subscriptions are now generally available to replace some Office 365 plans and to add more features for both free and premium accounts. […]
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Cybercriminals are targeting the oil and gas industry sector with highly targeted spearphishing campaigns impersonating shipment companies and engineering contractors while attempting to infect their targets with Agent Tesla info-stealer malware payloads. […]
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A fake WiFi hacking program is being used to distribute a new Coronavirus-themed malware that tries to lock you out of Windows while making some very annoying sounds. […]
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The FBI’s Charlotte office today warned against the sharing of sensitive personal information on social media as threat actors can take advantage of it to reset passwords and gain full control of accounts and the data stored within. […]
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