Europol says police in Germany, the UK, the US, and others took down botnets spreading ransomware via infected emails, arrested four, and seized 2,000+ domains
International law enforcement and partners have joined forces. Europol : Largest ever operation against botnets hits dropper malware ecosystem Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer : Police seize over 100 ma...
Microsoft says Russian state-sponsored hackers Midnight Blizzard accessed some of its “source code repositories and internal systems” following the January hack
and the Attack Isn't Over Pranav Dixit / Business Today : Microsoft discloses source code theft by Russian hackers Michael Kan / PCMag : Microsoft: Russian Hackers Accessed Company Source Code Jak Con...
The DOJ charges four Russian officials for alleged hacking campaigns from 2012 to 2018 on critical US infrastructure, including a Kansas nuclear power plant
Saturday, March 26, 2022 // (IG): BB //Weekly Sponsor: DiyGarage SoCal Gary Warner / CyberCrime & Doing Time : Russia's Invasion of Ukraine and CISA/FBI's New Era of Transparency Cynthia Brumfield / M...
Kaspersky: ASUS pushed a malicious backdoor to ~500K Windows machines for at least five months last year, after its live software update tool was compromised
Earlier today, Motherboard published … Lily Hay Newman / Wired : HACK BRIEF: HOW TO CHECK YOUR COMPUTER FOR ASUS UPDATE MALWARE Vibhuti Sharma / Reuters : Asus implements fix for malware attack Kasper...
WikiLeaks releases mostly decade-old documents detailing CIA techniques for compromising Macs and iOS devices using EFI, UEFI, and firmware malware
Sci-fi fans who have watched Doctor … Sam Biddle / The Intercept : Apple Says It Fixed CIA Vulnerabilities Years Ago Alexandra Burlacu / Tech Times : Apple On Latest WikiLeaks CIA Documents: No Worrie...
Many models of Netgear routers exposed to critical remotely-exploitable security flaw; affected users recommended to stop using routers until patch is available
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Android's November security patch does not include fix for critical privilege-escalation bug in Linux kernel; official Linux patch was released last month
November 2016 Lucian Constantin / CIO.com : Android patches fix Drammer RAM attack, but not Dirty Cow exploit Ionut Arghire / SecurityWeek : Google Patches 23 Critical Vulnerabilities in Android Rajes...
Google releases Verified Access API for enterprise that will cryptographically validate identity of Chrome OS devices
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Google releases Verified Access API for enterprise that will cryptographically validate identity of Chrome OS devices
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Vulnerabilities in Netgear's ProSafe network management system could lead to remote code execution with system privileges, arbitrary file download
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