Despite a broad effort to disrupt TrickBot, including legal action by Microsoft, some command and control servers of the botnet still appear to be online
As announced today, Microsoft took action against the Trickbot botnet … Alfred Ng / CNET : Microsoft takes down hacking network with potential to disrupt election PYMNTS.com : Microsoft Joins Offensiv...
Researchers observe hackers remotely exploiting a critical bug in BIG-IP products from F5 that act as load balancers within enterprise networks; patch available
F5 released a patch … Lindsey O'Donnell / Threatpost : Admins Urged to Patch Critical F5 Flaw Under Active Attack Robert Lemos / Dark Reading : Attackers Scan for Vulnerable BIG-IP Devices After Flaw ...
Hackers breached the internal network of Avast likely aiming for another supply chain attack on CCleaner; Avast says it didn't find malicious changes to the app
again Robert Lemos / Dark Reading : Avast Foils Another CCleaner Attack Alex Scroxton / ComputerWeekly.com : Attacker hit VPN firm Avast through its VPN Seth Rosenblatt / The Parallax : SafeBreach dis...
Survey: security products send average large organizations 17K malware alerts per week, only 19% of which are reliable
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Bot nets likely behind jump in spam
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2006-10-27 — A significant rise in the global volume of spam in the past two months has security analysts worried that bot nets are increasingly being used by spammers to...
Microsoft patch opens users to attack
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2006-08-22 — UPDATE: Microsoft continued to work on a fix on Tuesday for an exploitable flaw introduced by the company's latest security update to Internet Explorer. — ...