Microsoft has released the optional KB4586853 non-security cumulative update preview for Windows 10 versions 2004 and 20H2, with USB 3.0 and gaming fixes. […]
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Microsoft has added support for Zerologon exploitation detection to Microsoft Defender for Identity to allow Security Operations teams to detect on-premises attacks attempting to abuse this critical vulnerability. […]
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Since Apple unveiled its M1 chip, users have been in awe of its performance power efficiency. It turns out that the M1 chip not only performs fantastic for macOS BigSur but it may also be a better choice for Windows 10 than Microsoft’s own devices. […]
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After a year-long vacation, the Gootkit information-stealing Trojan has returned to life alongside REvil Ransomware in a new campaign targeting Germany. […]
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Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS) urged students and staff to stop using their school-issued Windows computers and only use Chromebooks and Google accounts following a ransomware attack that hit the district’s network last Wednesday. […]
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NordVPN’s Cyber Monday deal is now live with 68% off a 2-year VPN subscription and an additional three months for free. This offer gives you a total of 27 months of VPN access for a monthly cost of $3.30! […]
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U.S. healthcare provider AspenPointe notified patients of a data breach stemming from a September 2020 cyberattack that enabled attackers to steal protected health information (PHI) and personally identifiable information (PII). […]
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Cyber Monday is here and great deals are available for computer security, software, online courses, system admin services, antivirus, and VPN software. […]
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The University of Vermont Health Network is still recovering from a Ryuk Ransomware attack in October 2020, with services slowly coming back online. […]
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A newly discovered credit card skimmer uses an innovative technique to inject highly convincing PayPal iframes and hijack the checkout process on compromised online stores. […]
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Industrial automation and Industrial IoT (IIoT) chip maker Advantech confirmed a ransomware attack that hit its network and led to the theft of confidential, albeit low-value, company documents. […]
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By default, Microsoft allows users ten days to uninstall a new Windows 10 feature update and roll back to a previous version of the operating system. In this article, we will show you how to increase your ‘OS uninstall window’ to give you more time to test out a new Windows 10 feature update. […]
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By default, Microsoft allows users ten days to uninstall a new Windows 10 feature update and roll back to a previous version of the operating system. In this article, we will show you how to increase your ‘OS uninstall window’ to give you more time to test out a new Windows 10 feature update. […]
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Delaware County, Pennsylvania has paid a $500,000 ransom after their systems were hit by the DoppelPaymer ransomware last weekend. […]
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Malwarebytes’s Cyber Monday deal is live with 50% off Malwarebytes Premium and 25% off the Malwarebytes for Teams business product. […]
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By default, Microsoft allows users ten days to uninstall a new Windows 10 feature update and roll back to a previous version of the operating system. In this article, we will show you how to increase your ‘OS uninstall window’ to give you more time to test out a new Windows 10 feature update. […]
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Malwarebytes’s Cyber Monday deal is live with 50% off Malwarebytes Premium and 25% off the Malwarebytes for Teams business product. […]
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The Windows Store isn’t as populated as Google and Apple’s app marketplace, but there are plenty of apps that can improve your Windows 10 experience. […]
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With Windows, you’ve got an almost limitless number of ways to customize the desktop experience. From simply changing the taskbar look using Windows Registry to installing a third-party tool, you’ve got plenty of ways to customize Windows 10. […]
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Microsoft is reportedly creating a subsystem, similar to the Windows Subsystem for Linux, that allows Android applications to run on Windows 10. […]
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The Conti ransomware gang hit the systems of industrial automation and Industrial IoT (IIoT) chip maker Advantech and is now demanding a $14 million ransom to decrypt affected systems and to stop leaking stolen company data. […]
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With the USA holidays, this has been a relatively slow week in new research being released. We did, though, see some organizations get attacked or report historical attacks. […]
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A rather complex phishing scheme for stealing Office 365 credentials from small and medium-sized businesses in the U.S. and Australia combines cloud services from Oracle and Amazon into its infrastructure. […]
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Drupal has released emergency security updates to address a critical vulnerability with known exploits that could allow for arbitrary PHP code execution on some CMS versions. […]
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Scammers are trying to steal email credentials from employees by impersonating their organization’s human resources (HR) department in phishing emails camouflaged as internal ‘back to work’ company memos. […]
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French multinational production and distribution firm Banijay Group SAS was hit earlier this month by a DoppelPaymer ransomware attack and had sensitive information stolen by the ransomware operators during the incident. […]
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French multinational production and distribution firm Banijay Group SAS has publicly confirmed a cyber incident that led to employee and commercially sensitive data potentially being compromised. […]
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This week, British music streaming service, Last.fm has fixed a credentials leak on their systems. The leak occurred due to a misconfigured Symfony profiler, exposing admin username and password. […]
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Canon has finally confirmed publicly that the cyberattack suffered in early August was caused by ransomware and that the hackers stole data from company servers. […]
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Chicago-based transportation technology firm Rand McNally is working on restoring network functionality following a cyberattack that hit its systems earlier this week. […]
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Everyone should be on the lookout for a massive ongoing phishing attack today, pretending to be an invite for a Zoom meeting. Hosted on numerous landing pages, BleepingComputer has learned that thousands of users’ credentials have already been stolen by the attack. […]
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US Fertility, the largest network of fertility centers in the U.S., says that some of its systems were encrypted in a ransomware attack that affected the company two months ago, in September 2020. […]
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Google Chrome will soon let you search through your open web pages to find that missing page lost among a sea of tabs. […]
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A security flaw in the cPanel web hosting control panel allows attackers to circumvent two-factor authentication (2FA) checks via brute-force attacks for domains managed using vulnerable cPanel & WebHost Manager (WHM) versions. […]
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British cybersecurity and hardware company Sophos has emailed a small group of customers to alert them that their personal information was exposed following a security breach discovered on Tuesday. […]
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French IT services giant Sopra Steria said today in an official statement that the October Ryuk ransomware attack will lead to a loss of between €40 million and €50 million. […]
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Following a year-long investigation led by Interpol, three members of a prolific cybergang with a confirmed victim count of about 50,000 organizations have been arrested recently in Lagos, Nigeria. […]
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Black Friday is almost here and great deals are already available for computer security, system admin, antivirus, and VPN software. […]
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Ritzau, the largest independent news agency in Denmark founded in 1866 by Erik Ritzau, said in a statement that it will not pay the ransom demanded by a ransomware gang that hit its network on Tuesday morning. […]
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An unpatched local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability affecting all Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 devices received a free and temporary fix today through the 0patch platform. […]
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Baltimore City Public Schools has been hit today by a ransomware attack that led to a systemic shutdown of its network due to the number of systems impacted in the attack. […]
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Network device manufacturer Belden was hit with a cyberattack that allowed threat actors to steal files containing information about employees and business partners. […]
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Google is slowly rolling out a new feature to Google Chrome 87 that allows you to type commands in the address bar that perform specific browser actions. […]
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A hacker has now leaked the credentials of almost 50,000 Fortinet SSL VPNs vulnerable to CVE-2018-13379. Exploits for these VPNs had been posted over the weekend on hacker forums, as reported by BleepingComputer. […]
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The popular Zero2Automated malware reverse-engineering course is having Black Friday promotion where you can get 20% off all courses on their site. […]
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Earlier this year, Microsoft added the Skype Meet Now feature to Windows 10 preview builds, and this same feature is now gradually rolling out to non-Insider (general public) users. […]
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NordVPN’s Black Friday promotion is now live with 68% off a 2-year VPN subscription and an additional three months for free. This offer gives you a total of 27 months of VPN access for a monthly cost of $3.30! […]
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Microsoft Edge is now testing a new feature that lets you copy tabular data and groups of items into the Windows clipboard for easy pasting into other apps. […]
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Cybercriminals looking to steal personal information are baiting U.S. citizens with emails purporting to be from government agencies offering federal assistance. […]
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Zoom is lifting the 40-minute time limit on Thanksgiving Zoom meetings so family members and friends can virtually spend the holiday together. […]
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The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued an alert yesterday, prompting all organizations to patch the critical CVE-2020-15505 remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in MobileIron mobile device management (MDM) systems. […]
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This week researchers analyze BAT script obfuscation techniques used by Trickbot’s 100 to evade antivirus detection. […]
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Microsoft Edge is now testing a new feature that lets you copy tabular data and groups of items into the Windows clipboard for easy pasting into other apps. […]
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Malwarebytes is starting Black Friday early with up to 50% off Malwarebytes Premium and 25% off the Malwarebytes for Teams business product. […]
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Security researchers are warning of a new malware family that currently targets mobile phone users to subscribe them silently to legitimate premium-rate services. […]
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TikTok has addressed two vulnerabilities that could have allowed attackers to take over accounts with a single click when chained together for users who signed-up via third-party apps. […]
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Hackers have been attempting to gain access to Spotify accounts using a database of 380 million records with login credentials and personal information collected from various sources. […]
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VMware has released a workaround to address a critical zero-day in multiple VMware Workspace One components that allows attackers to execute commands on the host Linux and Windows operating systems using escalated privileges. […]
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South Korean conglomerate and retail giant E-Land has suffered a ransomware attack causing 23 of its retail stores to suspend operations while they deal with the attack. […]
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Researchers at the University of Leuven in Belgium found vulnerabilities in the keyless entry system of the Tesla Model X that would have allowed attackers to steal the $100,000 car within just a few minutes. […]
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Fraudsters bypassed Google’s protections for the official Play Android store and published more than 20 fake modpacks for the popular game Minecraft. […]
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The PDF reader or viewer within Google Chrome has always been relatively simple, especially when compared to Microsoft Edge. With Chrome 87, Google has introduced a new UI for the PDF reader and here’s how you can enable it if you don’t have it already. […]
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The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is warning the general public of the risks behind recently registered FBI-related domains that spoof some of the federal law enforcement agency’s official websites. […]
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Windows 10 PowerToys currently comes with utilities for optimizing app windows for big monitors, previewing new image types in File Explorer, resizing images, and more. In this article, we’re highlighting the new key features of PowerToys that you should try to supercharge your Windows 10 experience. […]
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Microsoft released Windows Terminal Preview v1.5 this week, and it comes with some useful improvements, including full support for clickable hyperlinks, command palette improvements, emoji icon support, and more. […]
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Thousands of domains, including those belonging to high street banks and government organizations are vulnerable to a critical Path Traversal flaw in FortiNet SSL VPN. […]
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Over the past year, Microsoft has quietly released new built-in Windows 10 command-line applications and free Microsoft Store apps that enhance the functionality of the operating system. […]
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The TrickBot cybercrime gang has released the hundredth version of the TrickBot malware with additional features to evade detection. […]
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After the release of two Windows 10 feature updates and numerous cumulative updates, Microsoft has still not fixed a bug causing Windows Defrag to TRIM non-SSD drives. […]
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The Vote Joe site set up by Biden Presidential campaign was hacked this week and defaced by a Turkish group called RootAyyıldız. The defacement appears to have lasted for over 24 hours. […]
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This week we saw two massive attacks that had a signifcant impact on the food supply industry, as well as a demonstration of Egregor’s annoying ransom note print bombs. […]
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The notorious TrickBot has gang has released a new lightweight reconnaissance tool used to scope out an infected victim’s network for high-value targets. […]
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The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Cyber Division has warned private industry partners of increased Ragnar Locker ransomware activity following a confirmed attack from April 2020. […]
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The notorious TrickBot has gang has released a new lightweight reconnaissance tool used to scope out an infected victim’s network for high-value targets. […]
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VMware has released security updates to fix critical and high severity vulnerabilities in VMware ESXi, Workstation, Fusion, and Cloud Foundation, allowing for code execution and privilege escalation. […]
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Microsoft has released additional details on how to fully mitigate a security feature bypass vulnerability in Kerberos KDC (Key Distribution Center) patched during this month’s Patch Tuesday. […]
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Microsoft has released the Windows 10 1909 KB4586819 non-security preview cumulative update with fixes for game crash issues and for USB 3.0 hubs causing connected devices to stop working. […]
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The Qbot banking trojan has dropped the ProLock ransomware in favor of the Egregor ransomware who burst into activity in September. […]
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Kali Linux 2020.4 was released yesterday by Offensive Security, and it takes the big step of changing the default shell from Bash to ZSH. […]
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The Mount Locker ransomware operation is gearing up for the tax season by specifically targeting TurboTax returns for encryption. […]
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Facebook fixed a critical flaw in the Facebook Messenger for Android messaging app that allowed callers to listen to other users’ surroundings without permission before the person on the other end picked up the call. […]
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If you are running into issues with Windows 10 20H2, otherwise known as the October 2020 Update, this guide will explain how to roll back to your previous version of the operating system. […]
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A Florida man was sentenced to 37 months in prison earlier this week for his involvement in a business account takeover scheme that resulted in more than $9 million in total financial losses. […]
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Microsoft has launched Office 365 priority protection for accounts of high-profile employees such as executive-level managers who are most often targeted by threat actors. […]
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Threat actors are abusing Google’s free productivity tools and services to create convincing phishing campaigns that steal your credentials or trick you into installing malware. […]
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GO SMS Pro, an Android instant messaging application with over 100 million installs, is publicly exposing private multimedia files shared between its users. […]
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The Egregor ransomware uses a novel approach to get a victim’s attention after an attack – shoot ransom notes from all available printers. […]
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The Egregor ransomware uses a novel approach to get a victim’s attention after an attack – shoot ransom notes from all available printers. […]
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Cisco has fixed today three Webex security vulnerabilities that would have allowed unauthenticated remote attackers to join ongoing meetings as ghost participants. […]
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Microsoft has Windows 10 preview build 20262 (FE_RELEASE) to Insiders on the Dev channel with mostly bug fixes. […]
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A Chinese state-sponsored hacking group has been observed while attempting to exploit the Windows Zerologon vulnerability in attacks against Japanese companies and subsidiaries from multiple industry sectors in 17 regions around the globe. […]
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Managed web hosting provider Managed.com has taken their servers and web hosting systems offline as they struggle to recover from a weekend REvil ransomware attack. […]
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Microsoft has resolved a known issue leading to missing system and user certificates after updating managed Windows 10 systems using outdated installation media through update management tools, physical media, or ISO images. […]
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Microsoft has released out-of-band optional updates to fix a known issue that causes Kerberos authentication problems on enterprise domain controllers after installing security updates released earlier this month to address CVE-2020-17049. […]
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President Trump has fired Chris Krebs, Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), after Krebs disputed claims that the U.S. 2020 Presidential Election was insecure and fraudulent. […]
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Google is currently working on fixing a known issue causing a Google Chrome web browser version launched earlier today for Apple processors to suddenly crash. […]
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Unknown threat actors are scanning for WordPress websites with Epsilon Framework themes installed on over 150,000 sites and vulnerable to Function Injection attacks that could lead to full site takeovers. […]
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Google has released Chrome 87 today, November 17th, 2020, to the Stable desktop channel, and it includes numerous performance improvements, security fixes, and new features. […]
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Microsoft has announced today the public preview of endpoint detection and response (EDR) capabilities in Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) — now known as Microsoft Defender for Endpoint — for Linux servers. […]
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Microsoft is tracking an ongoing Office 365 phishing campaign that makes use of several methods to evade automated analysis in attacks against enterprise targets. […]
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Mozilla Firefox 83 was released today with a new feature called ‘HTTPS-Only Mode’ that secures your browsing sessions by rewriting URLs to secure HTTPS versions. […]
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A malware campaign ongoing since the beginning of the year has recently changed tactics, switching from exploit kits to social engineering to target adult content consumers. […]
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Micropayments platform Coil, used by content creators and popular blogs accidentally exposed the email addresses of some users in a mass email announcement. […]
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Microsoft is integrating its Pluton security processor directly into Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm CPUs to better secure Windows PCs. […]
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Cold storage giant Americold is currently dealing with a cyberattack impacting their operations, including phone systems, email, inventory management, and order fulfillment. […]
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Cold storage giant Americold is currently dealing with a cyberattack impacting their operations, including phone systems, email, inventory management, and order fulfillment. […]
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Microsoft Edge update is now introducing a new feature that uses a new set of APIs to enable support for background web notifications. […]
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Zoom has announced today the rollout of new security enhancements designed to help meeting hosts to block zoombombing attempts and participants to report misbehaving users. […]
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After upgrading to the Windows 10 October 2020 update, a bug is not allowing users to perform in-place upgrades using the Microsoft Media Creation Tool (MCT). […]
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Ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) crews are actively looking for affiliates to split profits obtained in outsourced ransomware attacks targeting high profile public and private organizations. […]
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GitHub has announced today that YouTube-dl’s repository was reinstated after reversing a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown from last month. […]
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Japanese game giant Capcom has announced a data breach after confirming that attackers stole sensitive customer and employee information during a recent ransomware attack. […]
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Microsoft is investigating a new known issue causing enterprise domain controllers to experience Kerberos authentication problems after installing security updates released during this month’s Patch Tuesday, on November 10. […]
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Japanese game giant Capcom has announced a data breach after confirming that attackers stole sensitive customer and employee information during a recent ransomware attack. […]
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Microsoft has announced that they will not be releasing preview cumulative updates in December 2020 due to limited staff and operations during the upcoming holidays. […]
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Chilean-based multinational retail company Cencosud has suffered a cyberattack by the Egregor ransomware operation that impacts services at stores. […]
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Windows 10’s modern disk management tool is Microsoft’s latest effort to migrate legacy tools into modern versions found in the Settings app. Earlier this year, Microsoft announced a new disk management tool that it calls a “modern” take on Windows 10’s “snap-in” disk management tool. […]
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Over the past few weeks, Malwarebytes consumer and business users have complained that their Windows network printers keep getting kicked offline. […]
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A hacker is sharing what they state are 3.2 million Pluto TV user records that were stolen during a data breach. […]
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A link-sharing feature in iOS versions of Apple Safari browser makes it possible for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch users to alter headlines when sharing parts of webpages.
A researcher has raised concerns this feature can be abused not only for pulling harmless pranks but for sharing “fake news” having a wider impact. […]
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There were not many known large ransomware attacks this week, but we have seen ransomware operations evolving their tactics to extort their victims further. […]
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The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has announced today that sensitive information will be masked on all business tax transcripts starting next month to protect companies from identity theft. […]
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Biomedical and clinical research company Miltenyi Biotec says that it has fully restored systems after a malware attack that took place last month and affected the firm’s global IT infrastructure. […]
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TroubleGrabber, a new credential stealer discovered by Netskope security researchers, spreads via Discord attachments and uses Discord webhooks to deliver stolen information to its operators. […]
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A new mercenary hacker group tracked as CostaRicto by BlackBerry researchers is selling its services to entities requiring APT-level hacking expertise in cyber-espionage campaigns spanning the globe and targeting a multitude of industry sectors. […]
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Russian-speaking hackers have been using a new malware to steal information from their victims. Named Jupyter, the threat has kept a low profile and benefited from a fast development cycle. […]
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The DarkSide Ransomware operation claims they are creating a distributed storage system in Iran to store and leak data stolen from victims. To show they mean business, the ransomware gang has deposited $320 thousand on a hacker forum. […]
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Outdoor retail giant The North Face has reset the passwords of an undisclosed number of customers following a successful credential stuffing attack that took place last month, on October 9th. […]
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Researchers from Tsinghua University and the University of California have identified a new method that can be used to conduct DNS cache poisoning attacks.
The findings reopen a vulnerability that had been discovered by Kaminsky in 2008 and thought to have been resolved. […]
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A Luxottica data breach has exposed the personal and protected health information of 829,454 patients at LensCrafters, Target Optical, EyeMed, and other eye care practices. […]
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Google has released Chrome 86.0.4240.198 for Windows, Mac, and Linux to address two zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in the wild. […]
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A new email tool advertised on a cybercriminal forum provides a stealthier method for carrying out fraud or malware attacks by allowing messages to be injected directly into the victim’s inbox. […]
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Stock photo site 123RF has suffered a data breach after a hacker began selling a database containing 8.3 million user records on a hacker forum. […]
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Office furniture giant Steelcase says that no information was stolen during a Ryuk ransomware attack that forced them to shut down global operations for roughly two weeks. […]
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Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten had sent email notifications yesterday to many of its customers congratulating them on newly earned cashback.
Today, they took their words (and the cash) back. […]
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Security researchers have discovered a new malware geared with modules that target Oracle Micros Hospitality RES 3700 point-of-sale systems, one of the most widely used management software in the hospitality industry. […]
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The immensely popular children’s online playground Animal Jam has suffered a data breach impacting 46 million accounts. […]
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Intel addressed 95 vulnerabilities as part of the November 2020 Patch Tuesday, including critical ones affecting Intel Wireless Bluetooth products and Intel Active Management Technology (AMT). […]
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The source code for the widely-used Cobalt Strike post-exploitation toolkit has allegedly been leaked online in a GitHub repository. […]
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Microsoft has announced today that Windows 10 customers with devices running the latest Insider build can launch and interact with multiple Android apps directly on their computers’ desktops. […]
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Microsoft has released the November 2020 Office security updates with a total of 22 updates and 5 cumulative updates for 7 different products, fixing 14 vulnerabilities with five of them potentially enabling remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable systems. […]
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NVIDIA released a security update for the GeForce Now cloud gaming Windows app to address a vulnerability that could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code or escalate privileges on systems running unpatched software. […]
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Muhstik botnet has been targeting cloud infrastructure for years. New details have emerged related to this malware that shed light on its nefarious activities and origins. […]
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A ransomware group has now started to run Facebook advertisements to pressure victims to pay a ransom. […]
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Samsung has rolled out November 2020 Android updates today on their Galaxy devices. These patch serious vulnerabilities along with enhancing the overall device functionality. […]
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Microsoft is investigating a recently discovered issue that causes deleted emails to reappear in the mail inbox of Outlook.com accounts. […]
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Microsoft has released a new batch of Intel microcode updates for Windows 10 20H2, 2004, 1909, and older versions to fix new hardware vulnerabilities discovered in Intel CPUs. […]
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It’s November 10 and Patch Tuesday, and the first batch of security updates or ‘B’ updates are now available for all supported versions of Windows 10 including version 20H2. […]
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Microsoft users are currently experiencing issues around the world, with users unable to access Windows Store (Microsoft Store), Xbox Live services, and Outlook. […]
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Microsoft has fixed today a Windows kernel zero-day vulnerability exploited in the wild as part of targeted attacks and publicly disclosed by Project Zero, Google’s 0day bug-hunting team, last month. […]
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Today is Microsoft’s November 2020 Patch Tuesday, and Microsoft has patched 112 security vulnerabilities, including one zero-day disclosed by Google Project Zero last week. […]
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Volodymyr Kvashuk, a Ukrainian citizen and former Microsoft software engineer, was sentenced to nine years in prison for stealing over $10 million worth of currency stored value (CSV) including gift cards over a span of two years. […]
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A vulnerability in GNOME Display Manager (gdm) could allow a standard user to create accounts with increased privileges, giving a local attacker a path to run code with administrator permissions (root). […]
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Adobe has released security updates to address vulnerabilities classified as ‘Important’ in Adobe Reader for Android and Adobe Connect. […]
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Aggressive scammers are impersonating the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in spoofed e-mails designed to trick potential victims into paying fabricated outstanding amounts related to missed or late payments. […]
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Admins of WordPress sites who use the Ultimate Member plugin are urged to update it to the latest version to block attacks attempting to exploit multiple critical and easy to exploit vulnerabilities that could lead to site takeovers. […]
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A heavily obfuscated and malicious NPM project is used to steal Discord user tokens and browser information from unsuspecting users. […]
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Web browser vendors are planning to block a new attack technique that would allow attackers to bypass a victim’s NAT/firewall to gain access to any TCP/UDP service hosted on their devices. […]
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Microsoft says that multiple Windows 10 apps including Outlook are affected by an issue causing them to forget users’ passwords after the device is upgraded to certain Windows 10, version 2004 builds. […]
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Google Chrome is getting a new feature that increases security when clicking on web page links that open URLs in a new window or tab. […]
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Ransomware operators are using malicious fake ads for Microsoft Teams updates to infect systems with backdoors that deployed Cobalt Strike to compromise the rest of the network. […]
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Taiwanese laptop maker Compal Electronics suffered a DoppelPaymer ransomware attack over the weekend, with the attackers demanding an almost $17 million ransom. […]
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Microsoft reminds customers that some editions of Windows 10, version 1903 (also known as the May 2019 Update) will reach its end of service next month. […]
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An advanced HMRC tax rebate scam has been targeting UK residents this week via text messages (SMS). The smishing campaign is concerning as it employs multiple HMRC phishing domains and tactics, with new domains being added every day as older ones get flagged by spam filters. […]
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A new script makes it easy to create an ISO for any version of Windows 10, including Windows 10 version 1507 through 20H2. […]
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Since Windows Search interface is based on Microsoft’s web technologies, it can be easily tweaked by injecting a custom JavaScript file. If you don’t want to do this manually, you can use an open-source free tool called “BeautySearch”. […]
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