A new data wiper and info-stealer called EvilQuest is using ransomware as a decoy to steal files from macOS users. The victims get infected after downloading trojanized installers of popular apps from torrent trackers. […]
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Microsoft has released two out-of-band security updates to address remote code execution security vulnerabilities affecting the Microsoft Windows Codecs Library on several Windows 10 and Windows Server versions. […]
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On June 29, AMD published new Boot Camp drivers for the MacBook Pro with Radeon 5600M. These new drivers released by AMD can be used in Boot Camp when booting into Windows 10 on the new MacBook Pro. […]
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The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today formally designated the Huawei Technologies Company (Huawei) and ZTE Corporation (ZTE) as national security threats to the integrity of U.S. communications networks or the communications supply chain. […]
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A very clever phishing campaign targets bloggers and website owners with emails pretending to be from their hosting provider who wants to upgrade their domain to use secure DNS (DNSSEC). […]
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A very clever phishing campaign targets bloggers and website owners with emails pretending to be from their hosting provider who wants to upgrade their domain to use secure DNS (DNSSEC). […]
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Maze ransomware operators have updated their list of victims adding Xerox Corporation to the roster. It appears that the encryption routine had completed on June 25. […]
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Mozilla has released Firefox 78 today, June 30th, 2020, to the Stable desktop channel for Windows, macOS, and Linux with new features, bug fixes, changes, enterprise improvements, and security fixes. […]
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A multi-stage bitcoin fraud exposed and leveraged personally identifiable information to trick users into enlisting to a dubious investment site. Researchers found close to 250,000 unique records. […]
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Open systems, open data, and open-source software provide a means to promote greater transparency, public trust, and user participation. But what happens when adversaries can abuse the same systems? […]
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A data breach broker is selling databases containing user records for 14 different companies he claimed were breached by hackers in 2020. […]
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Microsoft today announced that the new Windows Insider Channels are rolling out to Windows 10 customers enrolled in the program as initially announced earlier this month, on June 15. […]
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The University of California San Francisco (UCSF) says that it paid $1.14 million to the Netwalker ransomware operators who successfully breached the UCSF School of Medicine’s IT network, stealing data and encrypting systems. […]
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A hacking campaign is targeting Roblox accounts to support President Trump in the upcoming U.S. Presidential elections in November. […]
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Palo Alto Networks disclosed a critical vulnerability found in the operating system (PAN-OS) of all its next-generation firewalls that could allow unauthenticated network-based attackers to bypass authentication. […]
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Microsoft announced that the similarity checker tool bundled with the AI-powered Microsoft Editor writing virtual assistant will also be available within Microsoft Word, the company’s word processor. […]
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The number of daily brute-force attacks against Windows remote desktop service has almost doubled during the pandemic lockdown, telemetry data shows. […]
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Samsung is reportedly working on Galaxy Fold Lite for as cheap as $900. The Galaxy Fold Lite will reportedly launch in 2021, but remember that this is just a rumor out of South Korea and it has to be taken with a grain of salt. […]
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AMD recently released 20.5.1 Adrenalin 2020 Edition suite of drivers to beta testers and this update is solely focused on providing proper support for the Windows 10 May 2020 Update, also known as version 2004 and 19041. […]
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Have you ever used Twitter, Gmail, or YouTube and noticed odd characters being displayed vertically overlay other text on the page or break out UI boundaries? If so and have wondered how this is happening, we dive into the wonderful world of Unicode that causes this behavior. […]
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The Australian government released an advisory late last week about increased cyber activity from a state actor against networks belonging to its agencies and companies in the country. […]
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Microsoft has created a Windows 10 File Recovery Tool that recovers deleted files and forgot to tell anyone. […]
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A simple VBScript may be enough to allow users to gain administrative privileges and bypass UAC entirely on Windows 10. […]
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New Microsoft documentation has revealed a Group policy and Registry tweak that allows you to specify the specific Windows version you wish to stay on and prevent new feature updates from being installed. […]
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GeoVision, a Taiwanese fingerprint scanner, access control, and surveillance tech manufacturer, fixed critical vulnerabilities in their devices that could be abused by hackers and nation-state threat actors. […]
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A simple VBScript may be enough to allow users to gain administrative privileges and bypass UAC entirely on Windows 10. […]
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Russian national Sergey Medvedev, one of the co-founders of Internet-based cybercriminal enterprise Infraud Organization and an admin on the organization’s carding forum, today pleaded guilty to RICO conspiracy. […]
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A 30-year old Russian national named Aleksey Yurievich Burkov was sentenced today to nine years in prison for running Cardplanet and Direct Connection, two sites that facilitated payment card fraud, computer hacking, and other cybercrimes. […]
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The Evil Corp gang was blocked from deploying WastedLocker ransomware payloads in dozens of attacks against major US corporations, at least of them being Fortune 500 companies. […]
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A 22-year-old Washington man was sentenced to 13 months in prison for renting and developing Mirai and Qbot-based DDoS botnets used in DDoS attacks against targets from all over the world. […]
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Ransomware has been busy this week with new features being discovered, big name victims, and new ransomware campaigns being discovered. […]
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Asian media firm E27 has been hacked, and attackers ask for a small “donation” to provide information on the vulnerabilities used in the attack. […]
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The Evil Corp gang was blocked from deploying WastedLocker ransomware payloads in dozens of attacks against major US corporations, at least of them being Fortune 500 companies. […]
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A new ransomware called Ransom X is being actively used in human-operated and targeted attacks against government agencies and enterprises. […]
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Hackers are always evolving their tactics to stay one step ahead of security companies. A perfect example of this is the hiding of malicious credit card stealing scripts in the EXIF data of a favicon image to evade detection. […]
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Microsoft has removed the setting allowing users to defer feature updates in Windows 10 2004 but still allows it to be configured via group policies for business versions. […]
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A new botnet identified in the wild leverages close to a dozen exploits for high and critical-severity vulnerabilities against Windows systems to turn them into cryptomining clients and sources for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. […]
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A bank in Europe was the target of a huge distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that sent to its networking gear a flood of 809 million packets per second (PPS). […]
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The dust is far from settled following the disclosure of the 19 vulnerabilities in the TCP/IP stack from Treck, collectively referred to as Ripple20, which could help attackers take full control of vulnerable devices on the network. […]
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Maze ransomware operators have claimed on their website that they breached and locked the network of the South Korean multinational LG Electronics. […]
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NVIDIA has released security updates to address security vulnerabilities found in GPU Display and CUDA drivers and Virtual GPU Manager software that could lead to code execution, denial of service, escalation of privileges, and information disclosure on both Windows and Linux machines. […]
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Nvidia has released the GeForce Game Ready driver version 451.48 and with it comes highly anticipated support for DirectX 12 support, and the Windows 10 2004 GPU Scheduling feature. […]
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Sony today announced the launch of a public PlayStation bug bounty program to pay security researchers and gamers for security vulnerabilities found in PlayStation 4 devices, the PlayStation Network domains. […]
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Microsoft has issued a warning about a conflict between Microsoft Edge and the AdBlock Plus browser extension that causes problems when watching YouTube videos. […]
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Microsoft’s Defender ATP Research Team today issued guidance on how to defend against attacks targeting Exchange servers by blocking malicious activity identified with the help of behavior-based detection. […]
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VMware released security updates to fix multiple vulnerabilities in VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion, with one of them being a critical bug in default configurations of Workstation and Fusion having 3D graphics enabled. […]
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A hacking group known as CryptoCore has pulled off cryptocurrency heists worth $70 million, but research indicates that it may be an estimated value of over $200 million since 2018. […]
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U.S. business consulting firm Frost & Sullivan was breached after data from an unsecured backup folder exposed on the Internet was sold on a hacker forum. […]
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Microsoft acknowledged a new known issue leading to the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) critical system process crashes and forced reboots on some Windows 10 devices. […]
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A Thanos ransomware campaign targeting mid-level employees of multiple organizations from Austria, Switzerland, and Germany was met by the victims’ refusal to pay the ransoms demanded to have their data decrypted. […]
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The Russian cybercrime group known as Evil Corp has added a new ransomware to its arsenal called WastedLocker. This ransomware is used in targeted attacks against the enterprise. […]
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New details have emerged on the activity of the infamous Fxmsp hacker that last year was advertising access to to networks of three cybersecurity vendors. […]
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Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) has expanded to non-Windows platforms and is now generally available for enterprise customers using Linux devices and in public preview for those with Android devices. […]
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REvil ransomware operators have been observed while scanning one of their victim’s network for Point of Sale (PoS) servers by researchers with Symantec’s Threat Intelligence team. […]
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Twitter has disclosed a ‘Data Security Incident’ that caused the billing information for Twitter advertisers to be stored in the browser’s cache. This bug would have allowed other users on the computer to see this data. […]
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Activity logs on a server used by the TrickBot trojan in post-compromise stages of an attack show that the actor takes an average of two weeks pivoting to valuable hosts on the network before deploying Ryuk ransomware. […]
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Activity logs on a server used by the TrickBot trojan in post-compromise stages of an attack show that the actor takes an average of two weeks pivoting to valuable hosts on the network before deploying Ryuk ransomware. […]
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Indian conglomerate Indiabulls Group has allegedly been hit with a cyberattack from the CLOP Ransomware operators who have leaked screenshots of stolen data. […]
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Microsoft today announced the general availability of the Office 365 Safe Documents security feature which expands the protection provided by Protected View by checking untrusted documents for risks and known threats. […]
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Starting on June 17th, 2020, Microsoft has begun to roll out the KB4567409 update for Windows 7 that installs the new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser. […]
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Microsoft says in a support document recently published that Outlook will fail to start for some users, automatically displaying an error prompting the users to repair some inbox files. […]
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Security solutions are designed to keep an organization safe, but that models crumble when that same software becomes a threat vector for the attackers to exploit. Such is the case with a new Bitdefender remote code execution vulnerability, dubbed CVE-2020-8102, lurking in its Safepay browser component. […]
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In what is being referred to as ‘BlueLeaks,’ a group called Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets) has released a 269 GB data dump containing 24 years worth of records from over 200 police departments. […]
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Starting September 1, 2020, new .gov sites will only be accessible via HTTPS as they will automatically be preloaded according to an announcement made by the U.S. Government’s DotGov Program today. […]
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Hackers are using Google’s servers and the Google Analytics platform to steal credit card information submitted by customers of online stores. […]
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Since the release of Windows 10 2004, users have been reporting performance issues and crashes when Malwarebytes 4.1 is installed. […]
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When a company suffers a ransomware attack, many victims feel that the attackers quickly deploy the ransomware and leave so they won’t get caught. Unfortunately, the reality is much different as threat actors are not so quick to give up a resource that they worked so hard to control. […]
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29-year-old Michigan man Justin Sean Johnson was arrested earlier this week for allegedly being behind the 2014 hack of the health care provider and insurer University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), stealing the PII and W-2 information of over 65,000 employees, and selling it on the dark web. […]
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In this Windows 10 article, we’ll guide you through the steps to reset and reinstall Windows 10 using Local Reinstall, Cloud Download, and Fresh Start. […]
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New malware is being distributed that pretends to be a hack that gets you the premium Discord Nitro service for free but instead steals user tokens saved in the various browsers, credit card information, and then tries to spread it to others. […]
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For the most part, it has been a quiet week with new variants of existing ransomware families being released. We also did not see too many large victims being disclosed and mostly updates of existing victims. […]
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Windows 10 users running insider builds got some treats from Microsoft this week with GPU support and new command-line options for the Windows Subsystem for Linux. […]
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Microsoft has announced that the enterprise Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) enterprise endpoint security platform is now capable of detecting and protecting customers from Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) malware. […]
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Nigerian entrepreneur Obinwanne Okeke is facing 20 years in prison after pleading to conspiracy to commit wire fraud that caused US Fortune 100 corporation Caterpillar $11 million in losses as part of a business email compromise (BEC) fraud scheme. […]
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Microsoft released Windows Terminal Preview 1.1 with a long list of new features, settings, and changes including an “Open Windows Terminal here” File Explorer contextual menu entry, support for startup launch, and new command-line arguments. […]
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Hackers have been using fake error logs to store ASCII characters disguised as hexadecimal values that decode to a malicious payload designed to prepare the ground for script-based attacks. […]
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Microsoft today released more cumulative updates to address a known issue plaguing multiple Windows 10 versions and breaking printing after installing updates released on June 9, 2020. […]
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Wells Fargo customers are being targeted by a phishing campaign impersonating the Wells Fargo Security Team and luring potential victims to phishing pages with the help of calendar invites. […]
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An unpatched zero-day vulnerability exists in 79 Netgear router models that allow an attacker to take full control over vulnerable devices remotely. […]
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Hackers hijacked an Oxford email server to deliver malicious emails as part of a phishing campaign designed to harvest Microsoft Office 365 credentials from European, Asian, and Middle Eastern targets. […]
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A new vulnerability found in the Cisco Webex Meetings client for Windows could allow local authenticated attackers to gain access to sensitive information including usernames, authentication tokens, and meeting information. […]
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Threat actors trying to steal your credentials through phishing attackers is nothing new, and the number of campaigns has only been rising in recent times. […]
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Security researchers have demystified the attack chain of the elusive InvisiMole cyberespionage group, revealing a complicated multi-stage format that relies on vulnerable legitimate tools, target-specific encryption of payloads, and stealthy communication. […]
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In a series of data breach notifications, IT services giant Cognizant has stated that unencrypted data was most likely accessed and stolen during an April Maze Ransomware attack. […]
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Microsoft announced today that they are resuming the optional cumulative updates for Windows 10 and Windows Server version 1809 and later, in July. […]
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In Windows 10 version 2004, Microsoft moved the functionality of the Fresh Start feature into Reset this PC and forgot to tell anyone about it. […]
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Cisco today released security updates to address two high severity vulnerabilities found in the Cisco Webex Meetings Desktop App for Windows and macOS that could allow unprivileged attackers to run programs and code on vulnerable machines. […]
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Microsoft has released their first Windows 10 21H1 preview today, build 20150, to Insiders on the Dev (Fast) channel. […]
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Zoom’s CEO Eric S. Yuan today announced that end-to-end encryption (E2EE) will be provided to all users (paid and free) after verifying their accounts by providing additional identification info such as their phone number. […]
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Microsoft says that users could experience issues using or accessing Storage Spaces configurations on some devices after updating them to Windows 10, version 2004, or Windows Server, version 2004. […]
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Microsoft is currently preparing a Windows 10, version 2004 forced rollout to devices running Windows 10 versions approaching end of service (EOS) using a machine learning-based rollout process. […]
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An unpatched vulnerability in software that redirects local USB devices to a remote system could help attackers elevate privileges on a target machine by adding fake devices. […]
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Microsoft says that users could experience issues using or accessing Storage Spaces configurations on some devices after updating them to Windows 10, version 2004, or Windows Server, version 2004. […]
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More than a dozen vulnerabilities, collectively named Ripple20, affecting the TCP/IP communication stack used in hundreds of millions of embedded devices paint a grim scenario for connected gadgets […]
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In a Form S-1 filed with the SEC today, DraftKings disclosed that SBTech, who they merged with in April, was hit by a ransomware attack at the end of March 2020. […]
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Plex has patched and mitigated three vulnerabilities affecting Plex Media Server for Windows that could enable attackers to take full control of the underlying system when chained together. […]
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VideoLan has released VLC Media Player 3.0.11, and it is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. In addition to bug fixes and improvements, this release also fixes a security vulnerability that could allow attackers to remotely execute commands or crash VLC on a vulnerable computer. […]
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Microsoft today released out-of-band cumulative updates for multiple versions of Windows 10 to address a known issue breaking printing after applying updates released on June 9, 2020. […]
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Adobe has released out-of-band security updates to address 18 critical flaws that could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code on systems running vulnerable versions of Adobe After Effects, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, Premiere Rush, and Audition. […]
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U.S. system-on-chip (SOC) maker company MaxLinear disclosed that some of its computing systems were encrypted by Maze Ransomware operators last month, after an initial breach that took place around April 15. […]
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Rumors began circulating on Twitter yesterday that the U.S. was under a massive DDoS attack. It turned out to be an outage on T-Mobile caused by a configuration error. […]
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Malware distributors are abusing a DLL hijacking vulnerability in Apple’s Push Notification service Windows executable to install coin miners on users attempting to download copyrighted software. […]
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Fraudsters recently have been pushing fake data breach notifications using big company names to distribute malware and scams. They’re mixing black SEO, Google Sites, and spam pages to direct users to dangerous locations. […]
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Security researchers at F5 Labs have spotted ongoing attacks using Qbot banking trojan malware payloads to steal credentials from customers of dozens of US financial institutions. […]
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Microsoft announced today that new Windows Insider preview builds will be offered via a new channel-based model focused on quality, switching from the ring model that focused on build frequency. […]
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With the launch of Windows 10 in 2015, getting into Microsoft’s preview and beta testing program become a much simpler process. Now, Microsoft is overhauling the Windows Insider program and migrating users to “channels” from “rings”. […]
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With the release of Windows 10 version 2004, Microsoft has broken the ‘Fresh Start’ feature that allows you to perform a clean install of the operating system while retaining your data. […]
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Microsoft is investigating a known issue affecting the new Chromium-based Edge browser where the app is automatically launching itself on Windows startup even if users haven’t configured it to auto-start after their systems boot up. […]
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Intel today announced a new CPU-level security capability known as Control-Flow Enforcement Technology (Intel CET) that offers protection against malware using control-flow hijacking attack methods on devices with Intel’s future Tiger Lake mobile processors. […]
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Microsoft removed a Windows 10 2004 compatibility hold applied to prevent customers from losing mouse input in some games and apps using GameInput Redistributable after applying the Windows 10 May 2020 Update. […]
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The websites for U.S. based jewelry and accessory giant Claire’s, and its subsidiary Icing, were compromised in April and may have allowed hackers to gain access to customer’s credit cards. […]
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Microsoft previously confirmed that Windows 11 wouldn’t be released, and the company will keep updating Windows 10 with new features, improvements, fixes, and bugs. […]
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In what can be described as the case of both cybersquatting and phishing, threat actors have created a site that imitates the legitimate secure note sharing service privnote.com to steal bitcoins. […]
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With the release of Windows 10 version 2004, the Windows Defragger has become a mess as it starts to defrag SSD drives too often, perform trim on non-SSD drives, and forgets when it last optimized a drive. […]
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Scammers are targeting website owners with blackmail messages asking them to pay ransoms between $1,500 and $3,000 in bitcoins to avoid having their sites’ databases leaked and their reputation destroyed. […]
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A bug has been fixed in AVG and Avast security applications that set registry keys that blocked applications from running in Windows 10. […]
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Operators of Black Kingdom ransomware are targeting enterprises with unpatched Pulse Secure VPN software or initial access on the network, security researchers have found. […]
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An “Important” and equally ironic vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-1296 was fixed in the Microsoft June 2020 updates that allows privilege escalation in the Windows Diagnostics & Feedback settings app: the annoying privacy setting screen is shown to users when setting up or upgrading Windows. […]
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An “Important” and equally ironic vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-1296 was fixed in the Microsoft June 2020 updates that allows privilege escalation in the Windows Diagnostics & Feedback settings app: the annoying privacy setting screen is shown to users when setting up or upgrading Windows. […]
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Attacks picked up at a rapid pace this week as well-known companies and cities were targeted with ransomware that impacted their networks. […]
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Iranian-born U.S. citizen Andrew Rakhshan, previously convicted in Canada for fraud, was sentenced to the maximum sentence of five years and ordered to pay over $500,000 after being found guilty of launching several distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against news websites. […]
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D-Link has released a firmware update to fix three out of six security vulnerabilities reported for the DIR-865L wireless router model for consumers. One flaw is rated critical, others are high-severity. […]
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Since the release of the Windows 10 1903/1909 KB4535996 and Windows 10 2004 KB4557957 cumulative updates, Windows users have been reporting that they receive errors that programs are missing when they attempt to launch them. […]
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Since the release of the Windows 10 1903/1909 KB4535996 and Windows 10 2004 KB4557957 cumulative updates, Windows users have been reporting that they receive errors that programs are missing when they attempt to launch them. […]
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Windows 10 users are reporting that they are unable to print using devices from multiple vendors after installing cumulative updates for Windows 10 versions 1903, 1909, and 2004 devices released on June 9, 2020. […]
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Microsoft is working on providing Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) users with more information on the route incoming emails take while going through the filtering stack before reaching their inbox, as well as on the effectiveness of any configuration changes. […]
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Bad guys find unprotected Elasticsearch servers exposed on the web faster than search engines can index them. A study found that threat actors are mainly going for cryptocurrency mining and credential theft. […]
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TAIT, one of the world’s leading live event solutions providers, disclosed a data breach that led to the exposure of personal and financial information stored on a server and on the email accounts of some of its employees. […]
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In the latest Windows 10 Insider build, Microsoft has started to test the distribution of Windows Subsystem for Linux version 2 kernels via Windows Update. […]
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Fortune 500 insurance holding company Genworth Financial disclosed a data breach after an unauthorized party gained access to insurance agents’ online accounts using compromised login credentials. […]
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European energy company giant Enel Group suffered a ransomware attack a few days ago that impacted its internal network. […]
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The City of Knoxville, Tennessee, was forced to shut down its entire computer network following a ransomware attack that took place overnight and targeted the city’s offices. […]
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Consumers are now paying close attention to how companies behave and treat consumers during this global COVID-10 public health crisis. […]
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The beta version of Android 11, the next version of Google’s operating system for mobile devices, comes with lots of security and privacy changes designed to allow the OS to protect users’ data from malicious attacks. […]
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On June 9th, 2020, IBM Cloud data centers suffered a global outage that caused connectivity issues for many of the web sites and platforms utilizing the service, including BleepingComputer. […]
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New tools attributed to the Russia-linked Gamaredon hacker group include a module for Microsoft Outlook that creates custom emails with malicious documents and sends them to a victim’s contacts. […]
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A phishing email campaign asking you to vote anonymously about Black Lives Matter is spreading the TrickBot information-stealing malware. […]
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Business owners with Microsoft Office 365 accounts are targeted in a phishing campaign that uses bait emails designed to look like legitimate Small Business Grants Fund (SGF) relief payment messages from the UK government. […]
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Dell and Lenovo have published their own documentation to confirm a list of systems that have been tested for May 2020 Update. […]
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On May 30th, select Roku streaming channels stopped working, leaving impacted customers clueless with no idea what was wrong. […]
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Microsoft released the June 2020 Office security updates, with a total of 19 security updates and 5 cumulative updates for 7 different products, patching 4 critical bugs that enable attackers remotely execute arbitrary code on unpatched systems. […]
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The Thanos ransomware is the first to use a researcher-disclosed RIPlace anti-ransomware evasion technique as well as numerous other advanced features that make it a serious threat to keep an eye on. […]
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The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) today warned mobile banking app users that they will be increasingly targeted by hacker trying to steal their credentials and take over their banking accounts. […]
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Operators of the cryptojacking botnet Kingminer botnet are trying to keep their business humming by applying hotfixes from Microsoft on vulnerable infected computers to lock out other threat actors thay may claim a piece of their pie. […]
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Microsoft has mitigated a known issue causing the Windows 10 May 2020 Update to be blocked from rolling out to some Microsoft Surface devices because of a safeguard hold applied right after the update’s release. […]
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A new security vulnerability was found in the compression mechanism of the Microsoft Server Message Block 3.1.1 (SMBv3) network communication protocol used by multiple versions of Windows 10 and Windows Server. […]
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Payment card data from customers of Greenworks hardware tools website is currently being stolen by hackers via a malicious script with self-cloaking capabilities and anti-tampering protection. […]
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Scammers have hijacked three YouTube channels to display bitcoin scams impersonating Elon Musk’s SpaceX channel. So far, these scams have raked in close to $150,000 in bitcoins in two days. […]
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Microsoft has fixed a vulnerability in all current Windows versions that allow an attacker to exploit the Windows Group Policy feature to take full control over a computer. This vulnerability affects all Windows versions since Windows Server 2008. […]
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Microsoft says that USB printer port will not be available for customers with devices running Windows 10, version 1903 or later if they disconnect the printer while shutting down the computer. […]
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Intel addressed 25 vulnerabilities today as part of its June 2020 Patch Tuesday, with two of them being rated as critical security flaws after receiving CVSS scores of 9.8. […]
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Today is Microsoft’s June 2020 Patch Tuesday, and as many Windows administrators will be routinely screaming at computers, please be nice to them! […]
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The June 2020 Patch Tuesday updates are now rolling out and you can download and install the latest security fixes on supported versions of Windows 10. Like every Patch Tuesday release, the cumulative update comes with security fixes and general bug fixes, and the patch is rolling out to PCs with May 2020 Update, November 2019 Update […]
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Authors of the Valak information stealer are focusing more and more on stealing email credentials as researchers find a new module specifically built for this purpose. […]
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Adobe has released security updates for Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Experience Manager, and Adobe Framemaker that fix ten security vulnerabilities in the three products. […]
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A second ransomware gang has partnered with Maze Ransomware to use their data leak platform to extort victims whose unencrypted files were stolen. […]
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A vulnerability in the Universal Plug and Play protocol implemented in billions of devices can be exploited to exfiltrate data, turn them into bots for distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS), and scan internal networks. […]
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Hackers are attacking high ranking executives of a German multinational corporation part of a government-private sector personal protective equipment (PPE) procurement task force. […]
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Facebook filed a lawsuit today against 12 domain names registered by Compsys Domain Solutions Private Ltd, an Indian provider of proxy/privacy services, domains that impersonate Facebook apps and were allegedly used for malicious purposes […]
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Several U.S. energy providers were targeted by spear-phishing campaigns delivering a new remote access trojan (RAT) capable of providing attackers with full control over infected systems. […]
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With a wink and a smile, the new Avaddon Ransomware has come alive in a massive spam campaign targeting users worldwide. […]
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Facebook filed a lawsuit today against Compsys Domain Solutions Private Ltd, an Indian provider of proxy/privacy services, for registering domains that impersonate Facebook apps and were allegedly used for malicious purposes. […]
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Compute networks in Europe and Japan from giant car maker Honda have been affected by issues that could be related to a cyber attack. […]
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