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Nation-State Actor Hit Google With The Largest DDoS Attack In an overview of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) trends targeting its network links, Google revealed that in 2017 a nation-state actor used massive firepower that amounted to more than 2.54 terabits per second. The actor targeted thousands of Google IP addresses at the same time and used several
ThunderX Ransomware Rebrands As Ranzy Locker, Adds Data Leak Site ThunderX has changed its name to Ranzy Locker and launched a data leak site where they shame victims who do not pay the ransom. ThunderX is a ransomware operation that was launched at the end of August 2020. Soon after launching, weaknesses were found in
Microsoft Issues Out-of-Band Windows Security Updates For RCE Bugs Microsoft has released two out-of-band security updates designed to address remote code execution (RCE) bugs found to affect the Microsoft Windows Codecs Library and Visual Studio Code. The two vulnerabilities are tracked as CVE-2020-17022 and CVE-2020-17023, both of them being rated as important severity and marked as not being exploited
UK Urges Orgs To Patch Severe CVE-2020-16952 SharePoint RCE Bug The U.K. National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) today issued an alert highlighting the risks behind the recently addressed CVE2020-16952 remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint Server. NCSC, the cybersecurity arm of the UK’s GCHQ intelligence service, urges organizations to make sure that all Microsoft