December 2019 - We Fix PC

Special Olympics New York Hacked to Send Phishing Emails

Special Olympics of New York, a nonprofit organization focused on competitive athletes with intellectual disabilities, had its email server hacked around this year’s Christmas holiday and later used to launch a phishing campaign against previous donors. […]

30 Dec

Microsoft Takes North Korean Hacking Group Thallium to Court

Microsoft sued a cyber-espionage group with North Korean links tracked as Thallium for breaking into its customers’ accounts and networks via spear-phishing attacks with the end goal of stealing sensitive information, as shown by a complaint unsealed on December 27. […]

29 Dec

Wyze Exposes User Data via Unsecured ElasticSearch Cluster

Smart home tech maker Wyze Labs confirmed that the user data of over 2.4 million of its users were exposed by an unsecured database connected to an Elasticsearch cluster for over three weeks, from December 4 to December 26. […]

28 Dec

Microsoft Outlook for the Web to Support Sending Email As Alias

Microsoft is working on adding support to the Outlook on the web browser-based client for sending emails via alias email addresses (also known as aliases or proxy addresses). […]

27 Dec

Criminals Pull Hard Before Xmas, Attack U.S. Health Industry

Attackers are taking no breaks and actually pull harder before holidays, as shown by a San Antonio mental health services provider and a New Mexico hospital impacted by malware attacks according to reports and disclosures published before Christmas. […]

27 Dec

U.S. Coast Guard Says Ryuk Ransomware Took Down Maritime Facility

The U.S. Coast Guard published a marine safety alert to inform of a Ryuk Ransomware attack that took down the entire corporate IT network of a Maritime Transportation Security Act (MTSA) regulated facility. […]

27 Dec

Ransomware Hits Maastricht University, All Systems Taken Down

Maastricht University (UM) announced that almost all of its Windows systems have been encrypted by ransomware following a cyber-attack that took place on Monday, December 23. […]

27 Dec

FIN7 Hackers’ BIOLOAD Malware Drops Fresher Carbanak Backdoor

Malware researchers have uncovered a new tool used by the financially-motivated cybercriminal group known as FIN7 to load newer builds of the Carbanak backdoor. […]

26 Dec

How to Run Classic and Chromium Microsoft Edge Side-by-Side

Microsoft says the update will only hide the app on Windows 10 and the classic version of the browser won’t be removed. For businesses and those who need it, there will be a new way to launch classic Edge after the Chromium Edge is installed. […]

26 Dec

Mozilla Adds Additional DNS-Over-HTTPS Provider to Firefox

Mozilla has added an additional DNS provider to its DNS-Over-HTTPS implementation in Firefox. This gives Firefox users more options as to which DoH provider they use for secure DNS lookups. […]

Month: December 2019

Special Olympics New York Hacked to Send Phishing Emails

Microsoft Takes North Korean Hacking Group Thallium to Court

Wyze Exposes User Data via Unsecured ElasticSearch Cluster

Microsoft Outlook for the Web to Support Sending Email As Alias

Criminals Pull Hard Before Xmas, Attack U.S. Health Industry

U.S. Coast Guard Says Ryuk Ransomware Took Down Maritime Facility

Ransomware Hits Maastricht University, All Systems Taken Down

FIN7 Hackers’ BIOLOAD Malware Drops Fresher Carbanak Backdoor

How to Run Classic and Chromium Microsoft Edge Side-by-Side

Mozilla Adds Additional DNS-Over-HTTPS Provider to Firefox