April 2020 – Page 8

US issues guidance on North Korean hackers, offers $5M reward

The U.S. government has issued guidance on North Korean hacking activity in a joint advisory published by the U.S. Departments of State, Treasury, and Homeland Security, and the FBI. […]

15 Apr

Exploit for Zoom Windows zero-day being sold for $500,000

An exploit for a zero-day remote code execution vulnerability affecting the Zoom Windows client is currently being sold for $500,000, together with one designed to abused a bug in the video conferencing platform’s macOS client. […]

15 Apr

Cloudflare dashboard and APIs are down, some sites having issues

Cloudflare is experiencing outages in multiple components of its infrastructure including, the dashboard, API, and their Argo smart routing feature that are causing issues for some sites that are using them. […]

15 Apr

Microsoft Office security updates may break VBA programs, how to fix

Microsoft says that some VBA programs might break after installing the security updates for the CVE-2020-0760 Microsoft Office remote code execution vulnerability released as part of the April 2020 Patch Tuesday. […]

14 Apr

Intel April Platform Update fixes high severity security issues

Intel addressed nine security vulnerabilities with the April 2020 Platform Update, all of them being high and medium severity security flaws impacting multiple software products, firmware, and platforms. […]

14 Apr

Microsoft April 2020 Patch Tuesday fixes 3 zero-days, 15 critical flaws

With the release of the April 2020 security updates, Microsoft has released fixes for 113 vulnerabilities in Microsoft products. Of these vulnerabilities, 15 are classified as Critical, 93 as Important, 3 as Moderate, and 2 as Low. Three of these vulnerability are classified as zero-days as they were publicly disclosed or exploited. […]

14 Apr

RagnarLocker ransomware hits EDP energy giant, asks for €10M

Attackers using the Ragnar Locker ransomware have encrypted the systems of Portuguese multinational energy giant Energias de Portugal (EDP) and are now asking for a 1580 BTC ransom ($10.9M or €9.9M). […]

14 Apr

Windows 10 Cumulative Updates KB4549951 & KB4549949 Released

Patch Tuesday April 2020 Updates are now rolling out to all supported versions of Windows 10 and paid customers of Windows 7. The cumulative update with security fixes is rolling out to PCs with November 2019 Update, May 2019 Update and October 2018 Update. […]

14 Apr

Microsoft delays end of support for older Windows, software versions

Microsoft has delayed the end of support dates for Windows 10 version 1709/1809 and older software and services to reduce the stress already being felt by organizations during the Coronavirus pandemic. […]

13 Apr

Google reenables FTP support in Chrome due to pandemic

After disabling FTP support in Google Chrome 81, Google has decided to reenable it again to prevent outages and difficulties in accessing information during the Coronavirus pandemic. […]

Month: April 2020

US issues guidance on North Korean hackers, offers $5M reward

Exploit for Zoom Windows zero-day being sold for $500,000

Cloudflare dashboard and APIs are down, some sites having issues

Microsoft Office security updates may break VBA programs, how to fix

Intel April Platform Update fixes high severity security issues

Microsoft April 2020 Patch Tuesday fixes 3 zero-days, 15 critical flaws

RagnarLocker ransomware hits EDP energy giant, asks for €10M

Windows 10 Cumulative Updates KB4549951 & KB4549949 Released

Microsoft delays end of support for older Windows, software versions

Google reenables FTP support in Chrome due to pandemic