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The Week In Ransomware – December 11th 2020 – Targeting K-12 This week we continued to see ransomware target businesses, education, and healthcare with cyberattacks that disrupt operations and lead to school closings. The most significant attack reported this week was the ransomware attack on the Foxconn electronics giant after the DoppelPaymer operation breached one of the
MountLocker Ransomware Gets Slimmer, Now Encrypts Fewer Files MountLocker ransomware received an update recently that cut its size by half but preserves a weakness that could potentially allow learning the random key used to encrypt files. This ransomware operation started in July 2020, and it targets corporate networks. Its operators steal data before encrypting it and
Samsung Fixes Critical Android Bugs In December 2020 Updates This week Samsung has started rolling out Android’s December security updates to mobile devices to patch critical security vulnerabilities in the operating system and related components. This comes after Android had published their December 2020 security updates bulletin, which includes patches for critical vulnerabilities impacting the latest devices.
Microsoft Office Security Updates Fix Critical SharePoint RCE Bugs Microsoft has addressed critical remote code execution vulnerabilities in multiple SharePoint versions with this month’s Office security updates. In total, this month the company released 23 security updates and 5 cumulative updates for 7 different products, fixing 9 vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to execute arbitrary