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The Week in Ransomware – January 24th 2020 – Duck for Cover!

Ransomware continues its onslaught against cities, the enterprise, and even houses of worship as threat actors attempt to encrypt as much as they can to earn big payouts. […]

24 Jan

Microsoft To Fix Windows 7 Black Wallpaper Bug for ESU Customers

Microsoft says that a bugfix will be provided for organizations that purchased Windows 7 Extended Security Updates (ESU) to fix a newly acknowledged issue leading to the desktop wallpaper being replaced by a blank black screen. […]

24 Jan

Citrix Releases Final Patch as Ransomware Attacks Ramp Up

Citrix released the final permanent fix for the actively exploited CVE-2019-19781 vulnerability, needed to secure all vulnerable Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC), Citrix Gateway, and Citrix SD-WAN WANOP appliances. […]

24 Jan

New Ryuk Info Stealer Targets Government and Military Secrets

A new version of the Ryuk Stealer malware has been enhanced to allow it to steal a greater amount of confidential files related to the military, government, financial statements, banking, and other sensitive data. […]

24 Jan

DoS Exploit PoC Released for Critical Windows RDP Gateway Bugs

A proof-of-concept (PoC) denial of service exploit has been published by Danish security researcher Ollypwn for the CVE-2020-0609 and CVE-2020-0610 flaws affecting the Remote Desktop Gateway (RD Gateway) component on Windows Server (2012, 2012 R2, 2016, and 2019) devices. […]

24 Jan

City of Potsdam Servers Offline Following Cyberattack

The City of Potsdam severed the administration servers’ Internet connection following an attack that took place earlier this week. Emergency services including the city’s fire department fully operational and payments are not affected. […]

24 Jan

Microsoft is Adding Classic ‘Edge Mode’ to New Edge Browser

Microsoft is developing a new ‘Edge Mode’ that lets users visit sites using the same rendering engine as Classic Edge to continue using legacy web applications. […]

23 Jan

Remove the Windows Defender Browser Protection Tech Support Scam

The Windows Defender Browser Protection tech support scam is a fake web site alert that states that Windows Defender Browser Extension detected someone to hack your bank account. This article was published first at Remove the Windows Defender Browser Protection Tech Support Scam

23 Jan

Sonos Backtracks: Legacy Devices Will Get Updates After May

In an email being sent to customers, Sonos has stated that they have heard everyone’s concerns and while older devices will not get new features, they will continue to receive software updates with security and bug fixes after May 2020. […]

23 Jan

Bipartisan Coalition Bill Introduced to Reform NSA Surveillance

A bipartisan coalition of U.S. lawmakers introduced a new bill that wants to protect Americans from warrantless government surveillance such as the one run by the National Security Agency (NSA). […]

Month: January 2020

The Week in Ransomware – January 24th 2020 – Duck for Cover!

Microsoft To Fix Windows 7 Black Wallpaper Bug for ESU Customers

Citrix Releases Final Patch as Ransomware Attacks Ramp Up

New Ryuk Info Stealer Targets Government and Military Secrets

DoS Exploit PoC Released for Critical Windows RDP Gateway Bugs

City of Potsdam Servers Offline Following Cyberattack

Microsoft is Adding Classic ‘Edge Mode’ to New Edge Browser

Remove the Windows Defender Browser Protection Tech Support Scam

Sonos Backtracks: Legacy Devices Will Get Updates After May

Bipartisan Coalition Bill Introduced to Reform NSA Surveillance