Excel Error Believed to Have Caused UK to Lose 15,841 Covid-19 Tests On Sunday, one of the United Kingdom’s public health agencies announced that 15,841 covid-19 cases had gone unreported due to a “technical issue” that occurred during “the data load process.” As citizens demand answers, it’s looking increasingly likely that a Read more…
Ransomware Threat Surge, Ryuk Attacks About 20 Orgs Per Week Malware researchers monitoring ransomware threats noticed a sharp increase in these attacks over the past months compared to the first six months of 2020. At the top of the list are Maze, Ryuk, and REvil (Sodinokibi) ransomware families, according to Read more…
The Anatomy Of A $15 Million Cyber Heist On A US Company Experienced fraudsters made off with $15 million from a U.S. company after carefully running an email compromise that took about two months to complete. The cybercriminal executed their plan with surgical precision after gaining access to email conversations about Read more…
Microsoft: Iranian Hackers Actively Exploiting Windows Zerologon Flaw Microsoft today warned that the Iranian-backed MuddyWater cyber-espionage group was observed using ZeroLogon exploits in multiple attacks during the last two weeks. The ongoing attacks exploiting the critical 10/10 rated CVE-2020-1472 security flaw were spotted by Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence Center. “MSTIC has observed activity by the Read more…
Hacker Group Compromises Mobile Provider To Steal Credit Cards Credit card skimming group Fullz House has compromised and injected the website of US mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) Boom! Mobile with a credit card stealer script. Boom! Mobile provides US-based customers with postpaid and prepaid no-contract wireless service plans that work on the nation’s Read more…
Windows 10: Bulk Install Essential Apps With This Free Tool During the Build 2020 developer conference, Microsoft published Winget package manager for installing popular apps available outside of the store. Winget currently works from the command line only, but if you’re not familiar with Command Prompt or PowerShell, third-party developers have Read more…
Google Releases Fix For ChromeOS Bug Causing 100% CPU Utilization Google has released a temporary fix for a ChromeOS bug that causes 100% CPU utilization in Chromebooks. Last week, BleepingComputer broke the story that the ChromeOS 85.0.4183.108 update caused Google Play’s ‘com.android.vending:download_service’ service to utilize 100% of the CPU. According to Google, the Read more…
MosaicRegressor: Second-ever UEFI Rootkit Found In The Wild The second-ever UEFI rootkit used in the wild was found by security researchers during investigations surrounding attacks from 2019 against two non-governmental organizations (NGOs). UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) firmware allows for highly persistent malware given that it’s installed within SPI flash storage soldered Read more…
Slack Outage Causes Lag, Message Errors, Blank Screens Worldwide Slack is experiencing a worldwide outage causing problems sending messages, editing messages, lag in chats, and channels displaying a blank screen. The Slack outage began at approximately 10:10 AM EST, and according to DownDetector, is predominantly affecting users in the USA Read more…
Crypto-mining Malware Adds Linux Password Stealing Capability The TeamTNT cybercrime group has recently updated its crypto-mining worm with password-stealing capabilities and with an additional network scanner to make it easier to spread to other vulnerable devices. While known mostly for actively targeting Docker instances to use compromised systems for unauthorized Read more…
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