April 2020 – Page 6 – We Fix PC

Windows 10 SMBGhost RCE exploit demoed by researchers

A proof-of-concept remote code execution (RCE) exploit for the Windows 10 CVE-2020-0796 ‘wormable’ pre-auth remote code execution vulnerability was developed and demoed today by researchers at Ricerca Security. […]

267 million Facebook profiles sold for $600 on the dark web

Threat actors are selling over 267 million Facebook profiles for £500 ($623) on dark web sites and hacker forums. While none of these records include passwords, they do contain information that could allow attackers to perform spear phishing or SMS attacks to steal credentials. […]

FBI: Extortion scammers more active due to stay-at-home orders

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned today of an increasing number of online extortion scam reports because a lot more people are being targeted due to the “stay-at-home” orders issued during the COVID-19 pandemic. […]

Windows 10: Manage Reserved Storage from the command line

In a couple of weeks, Windows May 2020 Update will begin rolling out to consumers and enterprises and it will arrive with the ability to manage Reserved Storage from the command line. […]

Coronavirus Dark Web Scams: From infected blood to ventilators

The dark web has always been a cesspool of black markets and conspiracy theories, but now with the Coronavirus outbreak, scammers have a new and more desperate audience to target their scams. […]

IT services giant Cognizant suffers Maze Ransomware cyber attack

Information technologies services giant Cognizant suffered a cyber attack Friday night allegedly by the operators of the Maze Ransomware, BleepingComputer has learned. […]

Windows 10 making it easier to manage default file associations

Microsoft is making it easier to change your default file associations by adding a new search feature that lets you quickly find the extension you wish to modify. […]

US govt: Hacker used stolen AD credentials to ransom hospitals

Hackers have deployed ransomware on the systems of U.S. hospitals and government entities using Active Directory credentials stolen months after exploiting a known remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in their Pulse Secure VPN servers. […]

The Week in Ransomware – April 17th 2020 – Changing Tactics

There was not a lot of new ransomware variants released this week, but some pretty interesting news about operations changing their tactics to remain more profitable and to evade law enforcement. […]

Microsoft: Trickbot in hundreds of unique COVID-19 lures per week

TrickBot is, at the moment, the malware showing up in the highest number of unique COVID-19 related malicious emails and attachments delivered to potential victims’ inboxes based on Microsoft’s Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) data. […]