Emotet Malware Takes Part In The 2020 U.S. Elections Emotet is now taking part in the United States 2020 Presidential election with a new spam campaign pretending to be from the Democratic National Convention’s Team Blue initiative. When the Emotet gang sends out spam, their main goal is to convince Read more…
Researchers Use ‘Fingerprints’ To Track Windows Exploit Developers Researchers can now find the developer of a specific Windows exploit using a new “fingerprinting” technique specifically devised to keep track of exploit developers’ activity. More to the point, Check Point security researchers Itay Cohen and Eyal Itkin were able to track Read more…
XDSpy Cyber-Espionage Group Operated Discretely For Nine Years Researchers at ESET today published details about a threat actor that has been operating for at least nine years, yet their activity attracted almost no public attention. Going largely unnoticed for this long is a rare occurrence these days as malicious campaigns Read more…
Microsoft Explains The Cause Of The Recent Office 365 Outage A preliminary report by Microsoft states that a bug in the deployment of an Azure AD service update caused Monday’s Office 365 outage. Starting at 5:20 PM EST on September 28th, people worldwide were unable to login to Office 365 Read more…
Ransomware Gangs Add DDoS Attacks To Their Extortion Arsenal A ransomware operation has started to utilize a new tactic to extort their victims: DDoS a victim’s website until they return to the negotiation table. A distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack is when a threat actor floods a website or Read more…
Windows 10 KB4577063 Update Fixes Internet Connectivity, WSL2 Issues Microsoft released the Windows 10 2004 KB4577063 non-security preview cumulative update with fixes for Internet connectivity and Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) issues. Microsoft says that Windows 10 users who install the KB4577063 non-security update might experience issues with input, receive unexpected results, or might Read more…
NVIDIA Fixes High Severity Flaws In Windows Display Driver NVIDIA has released security updates to address high severity vulnerabilities in the Windows GPU display driver that could lead to code execution, escalation of privileges, information disclosure, and denial of service. All GPU display driver bugs fixed by NVIDIA this month Read more…
New Service Checks If Your Email Was Used In Emotet Attacks A new service has been launched that allows you to check if an email domain or address was in an Emotet spam campaign. Emotet is a malware infection that spreads through spam emails containing malicious Word or Excel documents. Read more…
US Govt Warns Of Sanction Risks For Facilitating Ransomware Payments The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today said that organizations that assist ransomware victims to make ransom payments are facing sanctions risks as their actions could violate OFAC regulations. OFAC’s advisory comes after the FBI said Read more…
Hackers Leak Files Stolen In Pakistan’s K-Electric Ransomware Attack The Netwalker ransomware operators have published the stolen data for K-Electric, Pakistan’s largest private power company, after a ransom was not paid. On September 7th, 2020, K-Electric suffered a Netwalker ransomware attack that disrupted online billing services, but not the supply of Read more…
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