Microsoft Exchange attacks increase while WannaCry gets a restart The recently patched vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange have sparked new interest among cybercriminals, who increased the volume of attacks focusing on this particular vector. While ransomware attacks have increased in frequency in the past six months, cybersecurity company Check Point last Read more…
Windows 10 KB5000842 Cumulative Update Fixes Freezing Issues Microsoft has released the KB5000842 non-security preview update for all editions of Windows 10, version 20H2, and Windows 10, version 2004, with fixes for system freezing and activation issues. After installing this cumulative update, you may experience issues with the system and user Read more…
Microsoft Working To Fix Windows 10 21H1 Update Install Issue Microsoft is working to fix an issue causing a recently released Windows 10 21H1 build to fail to install for customers enrolled in the Windows Insider program. “Some Windows Insiders may experience an 0x800f081f error when attempting to install 21H1 Build Read more…
Windows 10 Is Getting OEMDRIVERS, A Folder For Third-Party Drivers Microsoft is adding a dedicated OEMDRIVERS folder to Windows 10 that will be used to store third-party drivers. Since Windows Vista, the operating system has included a folder called %SystemRoot%\System32\DriverStore that is used to hold validated drivers for the operating Read more…
Docker Hub Images Downloaded 20M Times Come With Cryptominers Researchers found that more than two-dozen containers on Docker Hub have been downloaded more than 20 million times for cryptojacking operations spanning at least two years. Docker Hub is the largest library of container applications, allowing companies to share images internally Read more…
Harris Federation Hit By Ransomware Attack Affecting 50 Schools The IT systems and email servers of London-based nonprofit multi-academy trust Harris Federation were taken down by a ransomware attack on Saturday. Harris Federation is an education charity running 50 Harris primary and secondary academies with 37,000 students from London and surrounding areas. IT, Read more…
PHP’s Git Server Hacked To Add Backdoors To PHP Source Code In the latest software supply chain attack, the official PHP Git repository was hacked and the code base tampered with. Yesterday, two malicious commits were pushed to the php-src Git repository maintained by the PHP team on their git.php.net server. The threat actors had signed off Read more…
Ransomware Admin Is Refunding Victims Their Ransom Payments After recently announcing the end of the operation, the administrator of Ziggy ransomware is now stating that they will also give the money back. It appears that this is a planned move since the admin shared the “good news” a little over Read more…
Critical Netmask Networking Bug Impacts Thousands Of Applications Popular npm library netmask has a critical networking vulnerability. netmask is frequently used by hundreds of thousands of applications to parse IPv4 addresses and CIDR blocks or compare them. The component gets over 3 million weekly downloads, and as of today, has scored over Read more…
CompuCom MSP Expects Over $20M In Losses After Ransomware Attack American managed service provider CompuCom is expecting losses of over $20 million following this month’s DarkSide ransomware attack that took down most of its systems. CompuCom is an IT managed services provider (MSP) and a wholly-owned subsidiary of The ODP Read more…
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