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The Week in Ransomware – October 4th 2019 – That’s all Folks

This has been quite a busy week with lots of new variants, new ransomware attacks, including those targeting hospitals, and new information coming out about the REvil/Sodinokibi Ransomware. […]

04 Oct

UAB Medicine Data Breach Exposes Patient Info in Phishing Attack

UAB Medical is the victim of a phishing attack that targeted the medical center’s payroll department. This allowed the attackers to gain access to numerous employee emails that contained the health information for 19,557 patients. […]

04 Oct

Microsoft Discovers Iranian Hacking Campaign Targeting U.S. Politics

Microsoft says that a state-sponsored Iranian cyber-espionage group tracked as Phosphorus by the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) attempted to get account info on over 2,700 of its customers, attack 241 of them, and compromised four accounts between August and September. […]

04 Oct

Windows 10 KB4524147 Cumulative Update Breaks the Start Menu

The KB4524147 Cumulative Update for Windows 10, version 1903 is causing the Windows start menu to crash with a critical error according to numerous user reports. […]

04 Oct

Actively Exploited Android Zero-Day Impacts Google, Samsung Devices

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) says that a new Android zero-day is actively being exploited in the wild in attacks targeting vulnerable Google Pixel, Huawei, Xiaomi, Samsung, Oppo, and Moto devices. […]

04 Oct

Magecart Impacts Hundreds of Thousands of Websites, Still Growing

With over two million detections to date, compromising shopping sites’ resources to steal customer payment card info is a global phenomenon unlikely to end soon. […]

04 Oct

Novter Trojan Sets its Sights on Microsoft Windows Defender

The Novter Trojan, also known as Nodersok or Divergent, is the latest Trojan to actively target Microsoft’s Windows Defender by attempting to disable it. […]

04 Oct

Details of 92 Million Brazilians Auctioned on Underground Forums

Someone is offering to auction on underground forums a database containing personal information of 92 million Brazilian citizens. They claim that every record is real and unique. […]

03 Oct

Microsoft Releases Windows Security Updates to Fix Printing Issue

Microsoft today released out of band security updates, cumulative updates, and monthly rollup updates to address a printing issue plaguing all Windows client and server versions acknowledged on September 30. […]

03 Oct

Office 365 Admins Can Now Block Malicious Microsoft Query IQY Files

Microsoft has silently added new group policies to allow Office 365 admins to block Excel users from opening untrusted Microsoft Query files with IQY, OQY, DQY, and RQY extensions. […]

Month: October 2019

The Week in Ransomware – October 4th 2019 – That’s all Folks

UAB Medicine Data Breach Exposes Patient Info in Phishing Attack

Microsoft Discovers Iranian Hacking Campaign Targeting U.S. Politics

Windows 10 KB4524147 Cumulative Update Breaks the Start Menu

Actively Exploited Android Zero-Day Impacts Google, Samsung Devices

Magecart Impacts Hundreds of Thousands of Websites, Still Growing

Novter Trojan Sets its Sights on Microsoft Windows Defender

Details of 92 Million Brazilians Auctioned on Underground Forums

Microsoft Releases Windows Security Updates to Fix Printing Issue

Office 365 Admins Can Now Block Malicious Microsoft Query IQY Files