FBI: $113 Million Lost to Online Romance Scams This Year The FBI warned today that a massive spike of online romance scams this year caused Americans to lose more than $113 million since the start of 2021. The scammers behind this type of online fraud trend (also known as confidence fraud) Read more…
New Windows Security Updates Break Network Printing Windows administrators report wide-scale network printing problems after installing this week’s September 2021 Patch Tuesday security updates. On Tuesday, Microsoft released sixty security updates and fixes for numerous bugs as part of their monthly Patch Tuesday updates, including a fix for the last remaining PrintNightmare vulnerability tracked Read more…
Microsoft: Windows MSHTML Bug Now Exploited by Ransomware Gangs Microsoft says multiple threat actors, including ransomware affiliates, are targeting the recently patched Windows MSHTML remote code execution security flaw. In the wild exploitation of this vulnerability (tracked as CVE-2021-40444) began on August 18 according to the company, more than two weeks Read more…
Free REvil Ransomware Master Decrypter Released For Past Victims A free master decryptor for the REvil ransomware operation has been released, allowing all victims encrypted before the gang disappeared to recover their files for free. The REvil master decryptor was created by cybersecurity firm Bitdefender in collaboration with a trusted law Read more…
Battling Cyber Threats in 4 Simple Ways Battling Cyber threats is no easy task especially now that the pandemic has accelerated the mass adoption of digital technology. This has propagated a dialogue as to the need to improve and enhance cybersecurity to protect everyone form all sorts of scams and Read more…
Microsoft Fixes Critical Bugs in Secretly Installed Azure Linux App Microsoft has addressed four critical vulnerabilities collectively known as OMIGOD, found in the Open Management Infrastructure (OMI) software agent silently installed on Azure Linux machines accounting for more than half of Azure instances. OMI is a software service for IT management Read more…
Ransomware Encrypts South Africa’s Entire Dept of Justice Network The justice ministry of the South African government is working on restoring its operations after a recent ransomware attack encrypted all its systems, making all electronic services unavailable both internally and to the public. As a consequence of the attack, the Read more…
MikroTik Shares Info on Securing Routers Hit By Massive Mēris Botnet Latvian network equipment manufacturer MikroTik has shared details on how customers can secure and clean routers compromised by the massive Mēris DDoS botnet over the summer. “As far as we have seen, these attacks use the same routers that Read more…
Ransomware Gang Threatens to Wipe Decryption Key if Negotiator Hired The Grief ransomware gang is threatening to delete victim’s decryption keys if they hire a negotiation firm, making it impossible to recover encrypted files. Last week, BleepingComputer first reported that the Ragnar Locker ransomware gang threatened to automatically publish a victim’s stolen Read more…
Microsoft Shares Fix for ‘camera upload is paused’ Android OneDrive Error Microsoft says a OneDrive issue prevents some Android users from uploading photos and videos from their camera roll to the cloud. According to stats available on the OneDrive app’s Google’s Play Store entry, more than 1 billion users worldwide have Read more…
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