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[Lawrence Abrams]

When visiting the eBay.com site, a script will run that performs a local port scan of your computer to detect remote support and remote management applications. [...]

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[Sergiu Gatlan]

Right after releasing the Windows 10 May 2020 Update to home customers, Microsoft has already added ten know issues under investigation to the Windows 10 2004 release health dashboard. [...]

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[Lawrence Abrams]

Windows 10's Winget package manager is an excellent tool for installing popular applications, but it only works from the command line. To make it easier to find apps and install them, third-party developers have released front-ends for Windows 10's new package manager. [...]

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[Rake]

Windows 10's Winget package manager is an excellent tool for installing popular applications, but it only works from the command line. To make it easier to find apps and install them, third-party developers have released front-ends for Windows 10's new package manager. [...]

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this is mad cool

 

[Lawrence Abrams]

Ransomware gangs are teaming up to extort victims through a shared data leak platform, and the exchange of tactics and intelligence. [...]

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[Sergiu Gatlan]

Microsoft acknowledged a new known issue leading to Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) critical system process crashes and forced reboots on some Windows 10 devices. [...]

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[Sergiu Gatlan]

Russian national Sergey Medvedev, one of the co-founders of Internet-based cybercriminal enterprise Infraud Organization and an admin on the organization's carding forum, today pleaded guilty to RICO conspiracy. [...]

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[Lawrence Abrams]

Two days after patches for critical F5 BIG-IP vulnerability were released, security researchers have started publicly posting proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits show how easy it is to exploit these devices. [...]

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[Ax Sharma]

The Zoom web conference Client contained a zero-day vulnerability that could have allowed attackers to execute commands on vulnerable systems remotely. [...]

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[Sergiu Gatlan]

The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) today highlighted the increasing risks posed by ransomware attacks, phishing campaigns, and Business Email Compromise (BEC) fraud schemes targeting sports organizations and teams, including Premier League football clubs. [...]

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[Lawrence Abrams]

BleepingComputer can confirm that Garmin has received the decryption key to recover their files encrypted in the WastedLocker Ransomware attack. [...]

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[Rake]

BleepingComputer can confirm that Garmin has received the decryption key to recover their files encrypted in the WastedLocker Ransomware attack. [...]

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The big secret is: 70% companies pay the ransom secretly. No wonder ransomware is so popular.

 

[Lawrence Abrams]

This week illustrated how pervasive ransomware has become with news of two large and well-known companies getting hit with ransomware attacks, with more surely to come. [...]

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[Mayank Parmar]

While the Windows 10's fall feature update focuses on performance enhancements and bug fixes, these are some noticeable new features that we have outlined below. [...]

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[Mayank Parmar]

Windows 10's Android app streaming is now available for some devices

Earlier, this streaming feature was only available to the testers in the Release Preview Channel of the Windows Insider program. Microsoft has now confirmed that the feature is being rolled out to all users, including the non-Insiders. [...]

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[Lawrence Abrams]

The source code for Windows XP SP1 and other versions of the operating system was allegedly leaked online today. [...]

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[Sergiu Gatlan]

DHS CISA and the FBI today shared more info on how an Iranian state-sponsored hacking group was able to harvest voter registration info from U.S. state websites, including election sites. [...]

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[Ax Sharma]

A newly discovered worm and botnet named Gitpaste-12 lives on GitHub and also uses Pastebin to host malicious code. The advanced malware comes equipped with reverse shell and crypto mining capabilities. [...]

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[[GH]Bot]

Researchers from Tsinghua University and the University of California have identified a new method that can be used to conduct DNS cache poisoning attacks. The findings reopen a vulnerability that had been discovered by Kaminsky in 2008 and thought to have been resolved. [...]

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[[GH]Bot]

Google has released Chrome 86.0.4240.198 for Windows, Mac, and Linux to address two zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in the wild. [...]

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