Microsoft has released a new set of Intel microcode updates for Windows 10 20H2, 2004, 1909, and older versions to fix bugs impacting multiple Intel CPU families. […]
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A now-fixed Sudo vulnerability allowed any local user to gain root privileges on Unix-like operating systems without requiring authentication. […]
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Massive pan-Asian retail chain operator Dairy Farm Group was attacked this month by the REvil ransomware operation, demanding a $30 million ransom. […]
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Verizon Fios is experiencing an outage making it impossible to access many websites or causing them too operate to slowly to use properly use. […]
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Verizon Fios is experiencing an outage making it impossible to access many websites or causing them too operate to slowly to use properly use. […]
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Mozilla Firefox 85 was released today with supercookie protection to block hidden trackers from tracking Firefox users’ activity while browsing the Internet. […]
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Email security company Mimecast has confirmed today that the threat actor behind the SolarWinds supply-chain attack is behind the security breach it disclosed earlier this month. […]
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ByteDance, the tech firm behind TikTok, has fixed a security vulnerability in the video-sharing social networking service which could have allowed attackers to steal users’ private information. […]
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This month Google engineers have fixed two vulnerabilities in the Go language (Golang), including a severe RCE flaw, and a cryptographic weakness. The RCE vulnerability tracked as CVE-2021-3115 mainly impacts Windows users of Go running the ‘go get’ command, due to the default behavior of Windows PATH lookups. […]
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A very active phishing campaign is underway pretending to be from the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), alerting recipients that they are eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. […]
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A North Korean government-backed hacking group targets security researchers who focus on vulnerability and exploit development via social networks, disclosed Google tonight. […]
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A very active phishing campaign is underway pretending to be from the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), alerting recipients that they are eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. […]
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Developers have released an unofficial fix for a Windows bug that could lead to the corruption of an NTFS volume by merely viewing a specially crafted file. […]
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Leading crane and lifting manufacturer Palfinger is targeted in an ongoing cyberattack that has disrupted IT systems and business operations. […]
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ProtonVPN is working on fixing a bug causing Windows blue screen crashes affecting customers using the latest versions of the company’s Windows client software. […]
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A ransomware gang continues to taunt Windows software developer IObit by hacking its forums to display a ransom demand. […]
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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has revealed that one of its servers has been accessed by an unknown threat actor following a security breach. […]
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Microsoft has shared a workaround for a known issue impacting Windows 10 devices with Conexant ISST audio drivers and causing update errors and issues. […]
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Another ransomware gang is now using DDoS attacks to force a victim to contact them and negotiate a ransom. […]
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In addition to a new user interface, Windows 10X also comes with a new feature called “Anti-theft protection”, which is a measure designed to prevent thieves from wiping and re-using stolen devices. […]
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A threat actor has leaked the stolen database for Indian cryptocurrency exchange Buyucoin on a hacking forum for free. […]
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Security hardware manufacturer SonicWall has issued an urgent security notice about threat actors exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in their VPN products to perform attacks on their internal systems. […]
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The Russian government has issued a security warning to organizations in Russia about possible retaliatory cyberattacks by the USA for the SolarWinds breach. […]
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If you were logged out of Facebook tonight, you are not alone. Facebook states that users were logged out of the social site due to a “configuration change.” […]
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Bonobos men’s clothing store has suffered a massive data breach exposing millions of customers’ personal information after a cloud backup was downloaded by a threat actor. The corporate systems were not breached by the attacker. […]
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Ransomware news is slow this week, with mostly small ransomware variants being released and a small number of attacks reported. […]
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Fully-functional exploit code is now publicly available for a maximum severity pre-auth vulnerability impacting default configurations of an SAP Solution Manager (SolMan) component. […]
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Bonobos men’s clothing store has suffered a massive data breach exposing millions of customers’ personal information. […]
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Intel disclosed on Thursday that unknown threat actors stole an infographic containing info on the company’s fourth-quarter and full-year 2020 financial results. […]
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A hacker is selling a database with login details for two million high-paying users of the MyFreeCams adult video streaming and chat service. […]
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Drupal has released a security update to address a critical vulnerability in a third-party library with documented or deployed exploits available in the wild. […]
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A Windows 10 20H2 cumulative update released to Insiders on the ‘Release’ channel leaked that the next feature updated will be 21H1. […]
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Microsoft has released the KB4598298 update for all editions of Windows 10 and Windows Server versions 1809 and 1909, with fixes for unexpected system restart issues, system crashes due to BitLocker, and multiple LSASS issues. […]
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Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) servers are now being abused by DDoS-for-hire services to amplify Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. […]
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Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) servers are being abused as an amplification vector by DDoS-for-hire services (aka booters or stressers) to launch Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. […]
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Microsoft is rolling out a built-in password generator and a leaked credentials monitoring feature on Windows and macOS systems running the latest Microsoft Edge version. […]
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Some of the laptops distributed by the UK Department for Education (DfE) to vulnerable students have been found to be infected with malware as reported by the BBC. […]
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The CHwapi hospital in Belgium is suffering from a cyberattack where threat actors claim to have encrypted 40 servers and 100 TB of data using Windows Bitlocker. […]
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QNAP urges customers to secure their network-attached storage (NAS) devices against an ongoing malware campaign that infects and exploits them to mine bitcoin without their knowledge. […]
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Hackers hitting thousands of organizations worldwide in a massive phishing campaign forgot to protect their loot and let Google the stolen passwords for public searches. […]
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Microsoft today shared details on how the SolarWinds hackers were able to remain undetected by hiding their malicious activity inside the networks of breached companies. […]
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VideoLan released VLC Media Player 3.0.12 for Windows, Mac, and Linux last week with numerous improvements, features, and security fixes. […]
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Cisco has released security updates to address pre-auth remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities affecting multiple SD-WAN products and the Cisco Smart Software Manager software. […]
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Google has added a new feature to the Chrome web browser that will make it easier for users to check if their stored passwords are weak and easy to guess. […]
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A stolen database containing the email addresses, names, and passwords of more than 77 million records of Nitro PDF service users was leaked today for free. […]
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A hacker has leaked 1.9 million Pixlr user records containing information that could be used to perform targeted phishing and credential stuffing attacks. […]
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A hacker has leaked 1.4 million Pixlr user records containing information that could be used to perform targeted phishing and credential stuffing attacks. […]
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Yesterday, seven Dnsmasq vulnerabilities were disclosed, collectively known as DNSPooq, that attackers can use to launch DNS Cache Poisoning, denial of service, and possibly remote code execution attacks, on affected devices. In this article we list all the available security advisories related to these vulnerabilities. […]
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Vulnerabilities found in multiple video conferencing mobile applications allowed attackers to listen to users’ surroundings without permission before the person on the other end picked up the calls. […]
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A bug in Google Search is causing a browser tab to freeze when searching between a specified range of dates. […]
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Cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes today confirmed that the threat actor behind the SolarWinds supply-chain attack were able to gain access to some company emails. […]
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The ongoing analysis of the SolarWinds supply-chain attack uncovered a fourth malicious tool that researchers call Raindrop and was used for distribution across computers on the victim network. […]
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Google has released Chrome 88 today, January 19th, 2021, to the Stable desktop channel, and it includes security improvements and the long-awaited removal of Adobe Flash Player. […]
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The Interpol (International Criminal Police Organisation) warns of fraudsters targeting dating app users and attempting to trick them into investing through fake trading apps. […]
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Israel-based security consultancy firm JSOF disclosed today seven Dnsmasq vulnerabilities, collectively known as DNSpooq, that can be exploited to launch DNS cache poisoning and remote code execution against millions of affected devices. […]
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An active malicious campaign is currently targeting Linux devices running software with critical vulnerabilities that is powering network-attached storage (NAS) devices or for developing web applications and portals. […]
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Windows utility developer IObit was hacked over the weekend to perform a widespread attack to distribute the strange DeroHE ransomware to its forum members. […]
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Windows utility developer IObit was hacked over the weekend to perform a widespread attack to distribute the strange DeroHE ransomware to its forum members. […]
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Windows utility developer IObit was hacked over the weekend to perform a widespread attack to distribute the strange DeroHE ransomware to its forum members. […]
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Microsoft will enable fully automated threat remediation by default for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint customers who have opted into public previews starting next month, on February 16, 2021. […]
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The administrators of the OpenWRT forum, a large community of enthusiasts of alternative, open-source operating systems for routers, announced a data breach. […]
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued a notification warning of ongoing vishing attacks attempting to steal corporate accounts and credentials for network access and privilege escalation from US and international-based employees. […]
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A bug in Windows 10 causes the operating system to crash with a Blue Screen of Death simply by opening a certain path in a browser’s address bar or using other Windows commands. […]
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Windows 10X was originally designed for dual-screen devices, such as the Surface Neo, Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold, and Intel prototypes. In 2020, Microsoft said that the plans have changed and the operating system will first debut on single-screen devices in 2021. […]
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A bug in Windows 10 causes the operating system to crash with a Blue Screen of Death simply by opening a certain path in a browser’s address bar or using other Windows commands. […]
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Enemies of the People, the website inciting violence against U.S. officials who refused to support the President’s claims to voter fraud, is still active and continues to expose personal details from more individuals. […]
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The administrator of Joker’s Stash, one of the longest-running marketplace for stolen credit cards, announced on Friday that they would permanently shut down the operation next month. […]
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The administrator of Joker’s Stash, one of the longest-running marketplace for stolen credit cards, announced on Friday that they would permanently shut down the operation next month. […]
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It has been another quiet week for ransomware, though we did have some interesting stories come out this week. […]
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Google says that it will block third-party Chromium web browsers from using private Google APIs after discovering that they were integrating them although they’re intended to be used only in Chrome. […]
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Attackers are using the normally harmless Windows Finger command to download and install a malicious backdoor on victims’ devices. […]
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The European Medicines Agency (EMA) today revealed that some of the stolen Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine candidate data was doctored by threat actors before being leaked online with the end goal of undermining the public’s trust in COVID-19 vaccines. […]
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The Scottish Environment Protection Agency confirmed on Thursday that some of its contact center, internal systems, processes and internal communications were affected following a ransomware attack that took place on Christmas Eve. […]
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Signal users are currently experiencing issues around the world, with users unable to send and receive messages. When attempting to send messages via Signal, users are seeing loading screen and error message “502”. […]
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Microsoft today warned admins that updates addressing the Windows Zerologon vulnerability will transition into the enforcement phase starting next month. […]
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Microsoft today reminded admins that updates addressing the Windows Zerologon CVE-2020-1472 vulnerability will transition into the enforcement phase starting next month. […]
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An undisclosed XSS vulnerability in Apache Velocity Tools can be exploited by unauthenticated attackers to target government sites, including NASA. […]
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Threat actors are hacking verified Twitter accounts in an Elon Musk cryptocurrency giveaway scam that has recently become widely active. […]
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Facebook has taken legal action against the makers of malicious Chrome extensions used for scraping user-profiles and other information from Facebook’s website and from users’ systems without authorization. […]
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The US National Security Agency (NSA) says that companies should avoid using third party DNS resolvers to block threat actors’ DNS traffic eavesdropping and manipulation attempts and to block access to internal network information. […]
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Microsoft addresses important severity remote code execution vulnerabilities affecting multiple Office products in the January 2021 Office security updates released during this month’s Patch Tuesday. […]
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An unpatched zero-day in Microsoft Windows 10 allows attackers to corrupt an NTFS-formatted hard drive with a one-line command. […]
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Dozens of cybercriminal gangs are publishing fake ads on popular online marketplaces to lure interested users to fraudulent merchant sites or to phishing pages that steal payment data. […]
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The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said today that threat actors bypassed multi-factor authentication (MFA) authentication protocols to compromise cloud service accounts. […]
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It’s over, kaput, done. Adobe Flash Player is officially non-functional, and it’s time to uninstall the program once and for all. […]
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Microsoft has resolved a known issue that caused the Windows 10 “Reset this PC” feature to fail in some cases, on both client and server platforms. […]
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Microsoft has fixed a security feature bypass vulnerability in Secure Boot that allows attackers to compromise the operating system’s booting process even when Secure Boot is enabled. […]
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Skype users are currently experiencing issues around the world, with users reporting that they are getting signed out of their Skype account and company accounts automatically. […]
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Project Zero, Google’s 0day bug-hunting team, revealed a hacking campaign coordinated by “a highly sophisticated actor” and targeting Windows and Android users with zero-day and n-day exploits. […]
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A website named ‘SolarLeaks’ is selling data they claim was stolen from companies confirmed to have been breached in the SolarWinds attack. […]
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Capcom has released a new update for their data breach investigation and state that up to 390,000 people may now be affected by their November ransomware attack. […]
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With the January 2021 Patch Tuesday security updates release, Microsoft has released fixes for 83 vulnerabilities, with ten classified as Critical and 73 as Important. There is also one zero-day and one previously disclosed vulnerabilities fixed as part of the January 2021 updates. […]
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Microsoft has addressed a zero-day vulnerability in the Microsoft Defender antivirus, exploited in the wild by threat actors before the patch was released. […]
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Today is first Patch Tuesday of 2021 and Microsoft is rolling out a new cumulative update for all supported version of Windows. The cumulative update with security fixes is rolling out to PCs with October 2020 Update, May 2020 Update, November 2019 Update, and May 2019 Update. […]
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A recent data breach at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, known as Te Pūtea Matua, was caused by attackers exploiting a critical vulnerability patched the same day. […]
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The European Medicines Agency (EMA) today revealed that some of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine data stolen from its servers in December was leaked online. […]
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Email security company Mimecast has disclosed today that a “sophisticated threat actor” compromised one of the certificates the company issues for customers to securely connect Microsoft 365 Exchange to their services. […]
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Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike has discovered the malware used by the SolarWinds hackers to inject backdoors in Orion platform builds during the supply-chain attack that led to the compromise of several companies and government agencies. […]
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Intel announced today at CES 2021 that they have added hardware-based ransomware detection to their newly announced 11th generation Core vPro business-class processors. […]
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Microsoft has released Sysmon 13 with a new security feature that detects if a process has been tampered using process hollowing or process herpaderping techniques. […]
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Microsoft announced today that Microsoft Defender for Endpoint’s detection and response (EDR) capabilities are now generally available on Linux servers. […]
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Networking device maker Ubiquiti has announced a security incident that may have exposed its customers’ data. […]
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A cryptocurrency mining campaign targeting macOS is using malware that has evolved into a complex variant giving researchers a lot of trouble analyzing it. […]
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Microsoft has unveiled today the new Surface Pro 7+ for enterprise and educational customers, an ultra-light 2-in-1 device which comes with Windows Enhanced Hardware Security features enabled by default. […]
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Romanian cybersecurity firm Bitdefender has released a free decryptor for the DarkSide ransomware to allow victims to recover their files without paying a ransom. […]
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Online survey and form creator Typeform has quietly patched a data hijacking vulnerability in its Zendesk Sell integration. If exploited, the vulnerability could let attacks redirect the form submissions containing potentially sensitive information to themselves. […]
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Kaspersky researchers found that the Sunburst backdoor, the malware deployed during the SolarWinds supply-chain attack, shows feature overlaps with Kazuar, a .NET backdoor tentatively linked to the Russian Turla hacking group. […]
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This week, researchers have responsibly disclosed a vulnerability by exploiting which they could access over 100K private records of United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP). The data breach stemmed from exposed Git directories which let researchers clone Git repositories and gather PII of a large number of employees. […]
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With 2021 finally here, Microsoft is planning on releasing some exciting new features and updates this year for Windows 10 operating system and other products. […]
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With 2021 finally here, Microsoft is planning on releasing some exciting new features and updates this year for Windows 10 operating system and other products. […]
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Windows 10 users can now integrate the Everything search engine directly into the Windows taskbar using the new ‘Everything Toolbar’ application. […]
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The next update for Windows is codenamed ’21H1′ and it’s likely to be a minor release with general bug fixes and improvements. However, Microsoft is believed to be working on a major Windows 10 update codenamed “Sun Valley” and “Windows 10++”. […]
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The source code for the ChastityLock ransomware that targeted male users of a specific adult toy is now publicly available for research purposes. […]
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Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe announced that the US Space Force (USSF) is the ninth Department of Defense component to join the US Intelligence Community (IC). […]
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The source code for the ChastityLock ransomware that targeted male users of a specific adult toy is now publicly available for research purposes. […]
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Google has banned the conservative social networking app Parler from the Google Play Store for not removing posts that incite violence in the US. […]
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Twitter has permanently suspended President Trump’s account for concerns that Trump’s tweets may cause further violence in the United States. […]
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Even though the holidays are over in many countries, it has been a very quiet week for ransomware. Unfortunately, ransomware activity will likely pick up shortly. […]
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Dassault Falcon Jet has disclosed a data breach that may have led to the exposure of personal information belonging to current and former employees, as well as their spouses and dependents. […]
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Signal’s encrypted messaging service has recovered from delays affecting its new user verification process after a mass exodus of WhatsApp users to their platform. […]
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Microsoft has addressed a known issue causing Windows 10 20H2 devices to force restart due to the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) system process crashing. […]
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NVIDIA has released security updates to address six security vulnerabilities found in Windows and Linux GPU display drivers, as well as ten additional flaws affecting the NVIDIA Virtual GPU (vGPU) management software. […]
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Multiple code repositories from Nissan North America became public this week after the company left an exposed Git server protected with default access credentials. […]
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Website owners are receiving emails threatening to ruin their reputation if they do not post a five-star review for a cryptocurrency exchange. […]
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Security researchers following the money circuit from Ryuk ransomware victims into the threat actor’s pockets estimate that the criminal organization made at least $150 million. […]
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A hacker is selling the data stolen from cannabis giant Aurora Cannabis after breaching their systems on Christmas day. […]
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A free micropatch fixing a local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in Microsoft’s Windows PsExec management tool is now available through the 0patch platform. […]
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Website owners are receiving emails threatening to ruin their reputation if they do not post a five-star review for a cryptocurrency exchange. […]
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The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts is investigating a potential compromise of the federal courts’ case management and electronic case files system which stores millions of highly sensitive and confidential judiciary records. […]
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The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has sent a security alert warning private sector companies that the Egregor ransomware operation is actively targeting and extorting businesses worldwide. […]
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JetBrains’ CEO, Maxim Shafirov, denied reports from multiple news outlets that the company played a role in the SolarWinds supply chain attack. […]
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Multiple malware authors are using the “Ezuri” crypter and memory loader written in Go to evade detection by antivirus products. Source code for Ezuri is available on GitHub for anyone to use. […]
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Mozilla Firefox is disabling the browser’s backspace key to prevent users from accidentally losing data typed into forms. […]
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Microsoft now allows users of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to run commands automatically on WSL distribution startup. […]
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Microsoft released today a new simplified version of the Windows File Recovery tool to test on the latest Windows 10 Insider build. […]
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The US Department of Justice said that the attackers behind the SolarWinds supply chain attacks have gained access to roughly 3% of the department’s Office 365 email inboxes. […]
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Microsoft is rolling out a new Windows 10 feature to Insiders called ‘News and Interests’ that displays a taskbar flyout with recommended news stories, sports scores, and weather information. […]
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After WhatsApp updated its Privacy Policy and Terms of Service on Monday with additional info on how it handles users’ data, the company is now notifying users through the mobile app that, starting February, they will be required to share their data with Facebook. […]
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United States President Donald Trump has signed an executive order banning eight Chinese apps considered to be a threat to US national security, economy, and foreign policy. […]
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Threat actors are actively scanning the Internet for open SSH devices and trying to login to them using a new recently patched Zyxel hardcoded credential backdoor. […]
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Vodafone Group’s low-cost operator ho. Mobile announced that hackers stole part of its customer database thus obtaining personal user information and SIM technical data. […]
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The Cyber Unified Coordination Group (UCG) said today that a Russian-backed Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group is likely behind the SolarWinds hack. […]
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The National Security Agency has shared guidance on how to detect and replace outdated Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol versions with up to date and secure variants. […]
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It’s a new year, and with it comes a new ransomware called Babuk Locker that targets corporate victims in human-operated attacks. […]
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Microsoft has released the January 2021 non-security Microsoft Office updates with fixes for known issues impacting Windows Installer (MSI) editions of Office 2016 products. […]
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The Australian government warns of an ongoing campaign impersonating the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) to infect targets with malware. […]
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North Korean hacking group Thallium aka APT37 has been targeting a private stock investment messenger service in a supply chain attack, as reported this week. […]
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Security researchers have discovered a new remote access trojan (RAT) used to empty the cryptocurrency wallets of thousands of Windows, Linux, and macOS users. […]
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A threat actor has posted data of 10,000 American Express credit card holders on a hacker forum for free. In the same forum post, the actor is also claiming to sell more data of Mexican banking customers of American Express, Santander, and Banamex. […]
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Healthcare organizations continue to be a prime target for cyberattacks of all kinds, with ransomware incidents, Ryuk in particular, being more prevalent. […]
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Multiple Indian government department websites are leaking COVID-19 lab test results for patients online. These reports uploaded by testing labs across the country as part of the national ‘test, trace, isolate’ efforts, expose patient’s details, test site location, COVID-19 test results, dates, and the healthcare provider’s info. […]
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Microsoft wants to add a new Office 365 feature to allow customers to test Microsoft Defender email protection without actually having to configure the environment and devices for your organization. […]
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A new Microsoft job listing states that the OS developer wants to show customers that “Windows is BACK” with a user interface refresh for Windows 10. […]
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Metro Vancouver’s transportation agency TransLink has confirmed that the Egregor ransomware operators who breached its network at the beginning of December 2020 also accessed and potentially stolen employees’ banking and social security information. […]
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As everyone gets back to work after the New Year holiday, Slack brings in 2021 with a massive outage affecting users worldwide. […]
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Citrix has released a feature enhancement designed to block attackers from using the Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) feature of NetScaler ADC devices as an amplification vector in DDoS attacks. […]
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An untrusted deserialization vulnerability has been disclosed in Zend Framework which can be used by attackers to achieve remote code execution on PHP sites. Portions of Laminas Project may also be impacted by this flaw, tracked as CVE-2021-3007. […]
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Security researchers investigating a set of ransomware incidents at multiple companies discovered malware indicating that the attacks may be the work of a hacker group believed to operate on behalf of China. […]
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Over 100,000 Zyxel devices are potentially vulnerable to a secret backdoor caused by hardcoded credentials used to update firewall and AP controllers’ firmware. […]
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A user that keeps track of unreleased Windows builds, has now leaked a new build that may indicate that Windows Core OS-powered Polaris OS was real. […]
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Google has fixed a Chromium bug to prevent antivirus programs running on Windows 10 from blocking new files and bookmarks. […]
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A PayPal text message phishing campaign is underway that attempts to steal your account credentials and other sensitive information that can be used for identity theft. […]
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Over 100,000 Zyxel devices are potentially vulnerable to a secret backdoor caused by hardcoded credentials used to update firewall and AP controllers’ firmware. […]
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When a new version of Windows 10 is released, Microsoft also releases new ISO disk images of the operating system to perform clean installs or create a bootable recovery environment. Using the steps in this article, you can download the ISO images directly, rather than being forced to use Microsoft’s Media Creation Tool. […]
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It was a big year for technology and cybersecurity with massive cyberattacks, worldwide outages, privacy concerns, and new features added to Windows. In this article, we list the ten most popular stories at BleepingComputer during 2020 with a summary of each. […]
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This holiday edition cover the latest ransomware news from the past two weeks, including known ransomware attacks and law enforcement takedowns. […]
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