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2020-04-18 10:00:00 | US govt: Hacker used stolen AD credentials to ransom hospitals (lien direct) | Hackers have deployed ransomware on the systems of U.S. hospitals and government entities using Active Directory credentials stolen months after exploiting a known remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in their Pulse Secure VPN servers. [...] | Ransomware Vulnerability | ||
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2020-04-17 18:35:45 | The Week in Ransomware - April 17th 2020 - Changing Tactics (lien direct) | There was not a lot of new ransomware variants released this week, but some pretty interesting news about operations changing their tactics to remain more profitable and to evade law enforcement. [...] | Ransomware | ||
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2020-04-17 16:31:26 | Microsoft: Trickbot in hundreds of unique COVID-19 lures per week (lien direct) | TrickBot is, at the moment, the malware showing up in the highest number of unique COVID-19 related malicious emails and attachments delivered to potential victims' inboxes based on Microsoft's Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) data. [...] | Malware Threat | ||
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2020-04-17 14:07:56 | Leading accounting firm MNP hit with cyberattack (lien direct) | A leading accounting firm in Canada forced a company-wide shutdown of their systems after getting hit with a cyberattack last weekend, BleepingComputer has learned. [...] | Guideline | ||
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2020-04-17 13:37:28 | Microsoft helped stop a botnet controlled via an LED light console (lien direct) | Microsoft says that its Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) discovered and helped take down a botnet of 400,000 compromised devices controlled with the help of an LED light control console. [...] | |||
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2020-04-17 11:46:10 | GitHub accounts stolen in ongoing phishing attacks (lien direct) | GitHub users are currently being targeted by a phishing campaign specifically designed to collect and steal their credentials via landing pages mimicking GitHub's login page. [...] | |||
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2020-04-16 17:00:00 | Windows 10 2004 almost here, final build released to Insiders! (lien direct) | Microsoft has officially released the final build of Windows 10 2004 to Insiders in the Release preview ring and plans on releasing it to everyone in May as the "May 2020 Update". [...] | |||
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2020-04-16 16:03:54 | Fake Valorant beta key generators are stealing gamers\' passwords (lien direct) | With Riot Game's new eagerly anticipated tactical FPS game Valorant reaching closed beta, gamers around the world have been scrambling to get an invite so that they can start playing the game before its released. [...] | |||
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2020-04-16 15:00:00 | Gmail blocked 18M COVID-19-themed phishing emails in a week (lien direct) | Google says that the malware scanners built within the Gmail free email service blocked around 18 million phishing and malware emails using COVID-19 lures within the last week. [...] | Malware | ||
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2020-04-16 12:15:25 | Zoom to let you report Zoom-bombing attackers crashing meetings (lien direct) | Zoom's efforts to improve the video conferencing platform's privacy and security will continue next week with the introduction of a user report feature aimed at helping prevent future zoom-bombing attacks. [...] | |||
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2020-04-16 10:20:50 | (Déjà vu) Windows Defender broken by recent updates, how to fix (lien direct) | When performing a full antivirus scan using Windows Defender, a recent definition update or Windows update is causing the program to crash in the middle of a scan. [...] | |||
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2020-04-15 19:07:57 | Nemty Ransomware shuts down public RaaS operation, goes private (lien direct) | The Nemty Ransomware is shutting down its public Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) operation and switching to an exclusive private operation where affiliates are hand-selected for their expertise. [...] | Ransomware | ||
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2020-04-15 18:19:52 | US issues guidance on North Korean hackers, offers $5M reward (lien direct) | The U.S. government has issued guidance on North Korean hacking activity in a joint advisory published by the U.S. Departments of State, Treasury, and Homeland Security, and the FBI. [...] | |||
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2020-04-15 16:15:18 | Exploit for Zoom Windows zero-day being sold for $500,000 (lien direct) | An exploit for a zero-day remote code execution vulnerability affecting the Zoom Windows client is currently being sold for $500,000, together with one designed to abused a bug in the video conferencing platform's macOS client. [...] | Vulnerability | ||
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2020-04-15 13:55:55 | Cloudflare dashboard and APIs are down, some sites having issues (lien direct) | Cloudflare is experiencing outages in multiple components of its infrastructure including, the dashboard, API, and their Argo smart routing feature that are causing issues for some sites that are using them. [...] | |||
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2020-04-15 13:40:08 | Microsoft Office security updates may break VBA programs, how to fix (lien direct) | Microsoft says that some VBA programs might break after installing the security updates for the CVE-2020-0760 Microsoft Office remote code execution vulnerability released as part of the April 2020 Patch Tuesday. [...] | Vulnerability | ||
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2020-04-15 11:12:10 | (Déjà vu) Microsoft Office April security updates fix critical RCE bugs (lien direct) | Microsoft released the April 2020 Office security updates on April 14, 2020, with a total of 55 security updates and 5 cumulative updates for 7 different products, and patching 5 critical bugs allowing attackers to run scripts as the current user and remotely execute arbitrary code on unpatched systems. [...] | Patching | ||
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2020-04-14 15:56:16 | Intel April Platform Update fixes high severity security issues (lien direct) | Intel addressed nine security vulnerabilities with the April 2020 Platform Update, all of them being high and medium severity security flaws impacting multiple software products, firmware, and platforms. [...] | |||
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2020-04-14 14:06:00 | (Déjà vu) Microsoft April 2020 Patch Tuesday fixes 3 zero-days, 15 critical flaws (lien direct) | With the release of the April 2020 security updates, Microsoft has released fixes for 113 vulnerabilities in Microsoft products. Of these vulnerabilities, 15 are classified as Critical, 93 as Important, 3 as Moderate, and 2 as Low. Three of these vulnerability are classified as zero-days as they were publicly disclosed or exploited. [...] | Vulnerability | ||
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2020-04-14 14:06:00 | Microsoft April 2020 Patch Tuesday fixes 4 zero-days, 15 critical flaws (lien direct) | With the release of the April 2020 security updates, Microsoft has released fixes for 113 vulnerabilities in Microsoft products. Of these vulnerabilities, 15 are classified as Critical, 93 as Important, 3 as Moderate, and 2 as Low. Four of these vulnerability are classified as zero-days as they were publicly disclosed or exploited. [...] | Vulnerability | ||
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2020-04-14 13:35:00 | RagnarLocker ransomware hits EDP energy giant, asks for €10M (lien direct) | Attackers using the Ragnar Locker ransomware have encrypted the systems of Portuguese multinational energy giant Energias de Portugal (EDP) and are now asking for a 1580 BTC ransom ($10.9M or €9.9M). [...] | Ransomware | ||
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2020-04-14 13:28:27 | (Déjà vu) Windows 10 Cumulative Updates KB4549951 & KB4549949 Released (lien direct) | Patch Tuesday April 2020 Updates are now rolling out to all supported versions of Windows 10 and paid customers of Windows 7. The cumulative update with security fixes is rolling out to PCs with November 2019 Update, May 2019 Update and October 2018 Update. [...] | |||
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2020-04-14 12:50:54 | Microsoft delays end of support for older Windows, software versions (lien direct) | Microsoft has delayed the end of support dates for Windows 10 version 1709/1809 and older software and services to reduce the stress already being felt by organizations during the Coronavirus pandemic. [...] | |||
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2020-04-14 10:49:40 | FBI warns of ongoing COVID-19 scams targeting govt, health care (lien direct) | The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned government agencies and health care organizations of ongoing BEC schemes exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as an overall increase in cryptocurrency and health care fraud scam activity targeting consumers. [...] | |||
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2020-04-14 10:14:14 | Russian hackers tried to steal San Francisco airport Windows accounts (lien direct) | The hack of employee web sites belonging to the San Francisco International Airport has been attributed to a Russian hacker group who used the SMB protocol to steal Windows passwords. [...] | Hack | ||
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2020-04-13 17:10:29 | Google reenables FTP support in Chrome due to pandemic (lien direct) | After disabling FTP support in Google Chrome 81, Google has decided to reenable it again to prevent outages and difficulties in accessing information during the Coronavirus pandemic. [...] | |||
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2020-04-13 16:50:16 | US consumers report $12M in COVID-19 scam losses since January (lien direct) | The U.S. Federal Trade Commission says that approximately $12 million were lost to Coronavirus-related scams according to consumer reports received since January 2020. [...] | |||
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2020-04-13 14:45:16 | Cloudflare drops Google\'s reCAPTCHA due to privacy concerns (lien direct) | Cloudflare announced that it has moved from Google's reCAPTCHA to hCaptcha, an independent alternative CAPTCHA provider focused on user privacy. [...] | |||
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2020-04-13 14:05:53 | Over 500,000 Zoom accounts sold on hacker forums, the dark web (lien direct) | Over 500 hundred thousand Zoom accounts are being sold on the dark web and hacker forums for less than a penny each, and in some cases, given away for free. [...] | |||
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2020-04-13 13:27:12 | Microsoft Outlook outage affecting Australians since Saturday (lien direct) | Microsoft's Outlook.com webmail service has been going through a three-day-long outage that has prevented Australian users from accessing or signing in over the weekend. [...] | |||
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2020-04-13 12:18:38 | Credit card thieves target WooCommerce sites with new skimmer (lien direct) | Credit card thieves are targeting WordPress e-commerce sites using the WooCommerce plugin using a dedicated JavaScript-based card-skimmer malware instead of run-of-the-mill attempts to redirect payments to attacker-controlled accounts. [...] | Malware | ||
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2020-04-12 11:15:37 | New Wiper Malware impersonates security researchers as prank (lien direct) | A malware distributor has decided to play a nasty prank by locking victim's computers before they can start Windows and then blaming the infection on two well-known and respected security researchers. [...] | Malware | ||
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2020-04-11 16:23:11 | Sodinokibi Ransomware to stop taking Bitcoin to hide money trail (lien direct) | The Sodinokibi Ransomware has started to accept the Monero cryptocurrency to make it harder for law enforcement to track ransom payments and plans to stop allowing bitcoin payments in the future. [...] | Ransomware | ||
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2020-04-11 13:36:26 | Windows 10: The new hidden features found in preview builds (lien direct) | With the latest Windows 10 Insider build, new hidden features have been found that add long-awaited media controls to the volume flyout and a new settings page that shows a 'What's New' section for the current Windows release. [...] | |||
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2020-04-10 17:20:06 | The Week in Ransomware - April 3rd 2020 - No Sign of Letting Up (lien direct) | Over the past two week, we have seen an increase in warnings from law enforcement agencies stating that healthcare organizations need to be on high alert for attacks by ransomware operators and other attackers who are looking to capitalize on the Coronavirus pandemic. [...] | Ransomware | ||
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2020-04-10 16:33:29 | Windows Defender incorrectly flagged Winaero Tweaker as HackTool (lien direct) | Users are reporting that the popular third-party Windows tweaking app called 'Winaero Tweaker' has been flagged as 'potentially unwanted software' or 'Hacktool' in Windows Defender. [...] | |||
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2020-04-10 15:23:21 | YouTube borked when users enable Firefox anti-fingerprinting (lien direct) | Firefox users have recently started to notice that YouTube does not display videos properly when they enable the browser's anti-fingerprinting technology for better privacy. [...] | |||
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2020-04-10 14:24:27 | Windows 10X: Latest news and info on Microsoft\'s upcoming OS (lien direct) | In October 2019, Microsoft revealed a 'new expression' of Windows 10 called Windows 10X. Microsoft says this new version of Windows 10 operating system is optimized to work with dual-screen or multiple screen/posture devices, such as the Surface Neo, Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold, and Intel prototypes. [...] | |||
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2020-04-10 14:09:50 | VMWare releases fix for critical vCenter Server vulnerability (lien direct) | VMware released a security update that fixes a critical vulnerability in the vCenter Server virtual infrastructure management platform that could allow attackers to gain access to sensitive information and potentially take control of affected virtual appliances or Windows systems. [...] | Vulnerability | ||
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2020-04-10 12:14:22 | San Francisco Intl Airport discloses data breach after hack (lien direct) | San Francisco International Airport (SFO) disclosed a data breach after two of its websites, SFOConnect.com and SFOConstruction.com, were hacked during March 2020. [...] | Data Breach Hack | ||
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2020-04-10 11:16:06 | Dutch police arrests suspect behind DDoS attacks on government sites (lien direct) | A 19-year old man from Breda, Netherlands, was arrested today for allegedly carrying out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that caused two Dutch government websites to shut down for several hours on March 19, 2020. [...] | |||
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2020-04-09 19:10:03 | Large email extortion campaign underway, DON\'T PANIC! (lien direct) | A large email extortion campaign is underway telling recipients that their computer was hacked and that a video was taken through the hacked computer's webcam. The attackers then demand $1,900 in bitcoins or the video will be sent to family and friends. [...] | |||
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2020-04-09 18:52:16 | US wants to ban China Telecom over national cybersecurity risks (lien direct) | Several U.S. Executive Branch agencies are asking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to block China Telecom Americas authorization to operate within the United States over significant cybersecurity risks. [...] | |||
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2020-04-09 15:36:23 | The Sandboxie Windows sandbox isolation tool is now open-source! (lien direct) | Cybersecurity firm Sophos announced today that it has open-sourced the Sandboxie Windows sandbox-based isolation utility 15 years after it was released. [...] | Tool | ||
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2020-04-09 14:56:16 | (Déjà vu) Over 3.6M users installed iOS fleeceware from Apple\'s App Store (lien direct) | Developers of fleeceware apps are now using the Apple App Store as a distribution platform having already successfully delivered their iOS apps onto over 3.5 million iPhone and iPad devices according to a report from Sophos. [...] | |||
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2020-04-09 12:25:48 | Leak shows Windows 10 2004 could come as \'May 2020 Update\' (lien direct) | A PowerShell command has leaked that the name of the upcoming Windows 10 2004 feature update is going to be called the "May 2020 Update" and that the 20H2 version coming after will be codenamed "Manganese". [...] | |||
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2020-04-09 11:53:13 | Visa urges merchants to migrate e-commerce sites to Magento 2.x (lien direct) | Payments processor Visa is urging merchants to migrate their online stores to Magento 2.x before the Magento 1.x e-commerce platform reaches end-of-life (EoL) in June 2020 to avoid exposing their stores to Magecart attacks and to remain PCI compliant. [...] | |||
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2020-04-09 11:37:57 | Travelex Reportedly Paid $2.3 Million Ransom to Restore Operations (lien direct) | Travelex reportedly paid a $2.3 million ransom payment to get their systems back online after being encrypted by a Sodinokibi ransomware attack. [...] | |||
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2020-04-09 06:00:00 | Phishing emails impersonate the White House and VP Mike Pence (lien direct) | Phishing scammers have started to impersonate President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence in emails that distribute malware or perform extortion scams. [...] | Malware | ||
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2020-04-09 05:00:00 | Hackers struggle morally and economically over Coronavirus (lien direct) | With the Coronavirus pandemic in full swing, threat actors are torn about how they should operate during the pandemic, and like everyone else, are also seeing a downturn in the underground hacker marketplace. [...] | Threat |
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