The Week In Ransomware – January 22nd 2021 – Calm Before The Storm Ransomware news is slow this week, with mostly small ransomware variants being released and a small number of attacks reported. This week’s biggest news is threat actors hacking the IObit forums to host malware for an IObit phishing scam Read more…
SAP SolMan Exploit Released For Max Severity Pre-auth Flaw Fully-functional exploit code is now publicly available for a maximum severity pre-auth vulnerability impacting default configurations of an SAP Solution Manager (SolMan) component. SAP SolMan is an application lifecycle manager deployed in almost all SAP environments and designed to help unify the Read more…
Bonobos Clothing Store Suffers A Data Breach, Hacker Leaks 70GB Database Bonobos men’s clothing store has suffered a massive data breach exposing millions of customers’ personal information after a cloud backup of their database was downloaded by a threat actor. Bonobos states that the corporate systems were not breached during the Read more…
Intel: Hackers Stole Unpublished Earnings Info From Corporate Site Intel disclosed on Thursday that unknown threat actors stole an infographic containing info on the company’s fourth-quarter and full-year 2020 financial results. The data was part of Intel’s yet unpublished quarterly earnings the company was planning to publish and file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Read more…
Drupal Releases Fix For Critical Vulnerability With Known Exploits Drupal has released a security update to address a critical vulnerability in a third-party library with documented or deployed exploits available in the wild. “The Drupal project uses the pear Archive_Tar library, which has released a security update that impacts Drupal,” Read more…
Windows 10 KB4598298 Update Fixes Crashes And Restart Issues Microsoft has released the KB4598298 update for all editions of Windows 10 and Windows Server versions 1809 and 1909, with fixes for unexpected system restart issues, system crashes due to BitLocker, and multiple LSASS issues. After installing the KB4598298 non-security preview Read more…
New Windows 10 Update Leaks Info On Upcoming 21H1 Feature Update A Windows 10 20H2 cumulative update released to Insiders on the ‘Release’ channel leaked that the next feature updated will be 21H1. When Microsoft releases new feature updates, it typically alternates between releasing them as a full-featured update or Read more…
MyFreeCams Site Hacked To Steal Info Of 2 Million Paying Users A hacker is selling a database with login details for two million high-paying users of the MyFreeCams adult video streaming and chat service. The seller says that they obtained the database recently, following a successful SQL injection attack and Read more…
Windows Remote Desktop Servers Now Used To Amplify DDoS Attacks Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) servers are now being abused by DDoS-for-hire services to amplify Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. The Microsoft RDP service is a built-in Windows service running on TCP/3389 and/or UDP/3389 that enables authenticated remote virtual Read more…
Microsoft Edge Gets A Password Generator, Leaked Credentials Monitor Microsoft is rolling out a built-in password generator and a leaked credentials monitoring feature on Windows and macOS systems running the latest Microsoft Edge version. Microsoft Edge 88 now helps you improve the security of your online accounts with the password Read more…
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