Windows 10 Now Warns When Apps Are Configured To Run At Startup Microsoft has recently added a new automated alert in the latest Windows 10 builds to let users know when an app registers itself to automatically launch after system startup. This new Windows 10 feature is especially useful for Read more…
International Law Firm Seyfarth Discloses Ransomware Attack International law firm Seyfarth Shaw announced on Monday that it was the victim of a ransomware attack over the weekend. With more than 900 lawyers in 17 offices in America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific regions, the company made over $700 million in Read more…
Norway Says Russian Hackers Were Behind August Parliament Attack “Based on the information base the government possesses, it is our assessment that Russia is behind this activity.” “This is a serious incident that affects our most important democratic institution,” Søreide added. Norwegian Parliament internal email system breached The attackers behind Read more…
Adobe Fixes Critical Security Vulnerability In Flash Player Adobe has released a security update for a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player that could be exploited by simply visiting a website. Adobe states that hackers could exploit this vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-9746, by inserting malicious strings in HTTP responses when users Read more…
Mozilla Releases Firefox 81.0.2 To Fix Twitter Errors Mozilla released Firefox 81.0.2 today, October 13th, 2020, to the Stable desktop channel for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android with a fix for a known issue preventing Twitter’s website from loading. The issue affecting a large number of Firefox users caused the Read more…
London Borough Of Hackney Suffers ‘Serious’ Cyberattack The city council systems for the London Borough of Hackney have been hit with a ‘serious’ cyberattack that impacts many of their services and IT systems. Not much is known about the attack, but in a press release to the borough’s website, Mayor Read more…
Windows Update Can Be Abused To Execute Malicious Files The Windows Update client has just been added to the list of living-off-the-land binaries (LoLBins) attackers can use to execute malicious code on Windows systems. LoLBins are Microsoft-signed executables (pre-installed or downloaded) that can be abused by threat actors to evade detection while downloading, installing, or Read more…
QBot Uses Windows Defender Antivirus Phishing Bait To Infect PCs The Qbot botnet uses a new template for the distribution of their malware that uses a fake Windows Defender Antivirus theme to trick you into enabling Excel macros. Qbot, otherwise known as QakBot or QuakBot, is Windows malware that steals Read more…
Hackers Used VPN Flaws To Access US Govt Elections Support Systems Government-backed hackers have compromised and gained access to US elections support systems by chaining together VPN vulnerabilities and the recent Windows CVE-2020-1472 security flaw. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) says that advanced persistent threat (APT) actors used Read more…
BazarLoader Used to Deploy Ryuk Ransomware On High-Value Targets The TrickBot gang operators are increasingly targeting high-value targets with the new stealthy BazarLoader trojan before deploying the Ryuk ransomware. For years, the TrickBot gang has been using their trojan to compromise enterprise networks by downloading different software modules used for Read more…
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