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Microsoft Defender Scares Admins with Emotet False Positives Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is currently blocking Office documents from being opened and some executables from launching due to a false positive tagging the files as potentially bundling an Emotet malware payload. Windows system admins are reporting [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] that this is happening since updating Microsoft’s enterprise endpoint
FBI Seized $2.3M from Affiliate of REvil, Gandcrab Ransomware Gangs The FBI seized $2.3 million in August from a well-known REvil and GandCrab ransomware affiliate, according to court documents seen by BleepingComputer. In a complaint unsealed today, the FBI seized 39.89138522 bitcoins worth approximately $2.3 million at current prices ($1.5 million at time of seizure)
Finland Warns of Flubot Malware Heavily Targeting Android Users Finland’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-FI) has issued a “severe alert” to warn of a massive campaign targeting the country’s Android users with Flubot banking malware pushed via text messages sent from compromised devices. This is the second large-scale Flubot campaign that hit Finland this year, with a previous
Smartwatches for Children are a Privacy and Security Nightmare Researchers analyzed the security of four popular smartwatches for children and found pre-installed downloaders, weak passwords, and unencrypted data transmissions. The analysis demonstrates that most of these devices arbitrarily collect and periodically transmit sensitive data to remote servers without the user knowing about it. This finding