September 2021 - Page 8 of 14

Ransomware encrypts South Africa’s entire Dept of Justice network

The justice ministry of the South African government is working on restoring its operations after a recent ransomware attack encrypted all its systems, making all electronic services unavailable both internally and to the public. […]

15 Sep

MikroTik shares info on securing routers hit by massive Mēris botnet

Latvian network equipment manufacturer MikroTik has shared details on how customers can secure and clean routers compromised by the massive Mēris DDoS botnet over the summer. […]

15 Sep

Ransomware gang threatens to wipe decryption key if negotiator hired

The Grief ransomware gang is threatening to delete victim’s decryption keys if they hire a negotiation firm, making it impossible to recover encrypted files. […]

14 Sep

Microsoft fixes remaining Windows PrintNightmare vulnerabilities

Microsoft has released a security update to fix the last remaining PrintNightmare zero-day vulnerabilities that allowed attackers to gain administrative privileges on Windows devices quickly. […]

14 Sep

Microsoft fixes Windows CVE-2021-40444 MSHTML zero-day bug

Microsoft today fixed a high severity zero-day vulnerability actively exploited in targeted attacks against Microsoft Office and Office 365 on Windows 10 computers. […]

14 Sep

Google Chromebook bug causes black screens after login

Google is investigating reports of black screens showing up on users’ Chromebooks when trying to log into their Chrome OS accounts. […]

14 Sep

Microsoft September 2021 Patch Tuesday fixes 2 zero-days, 60 flaws

Today is Microsoft’s September 2021 Patch Tuesday, and with it comes fixes for two zero-day vulnerabilities and a total of 61 flaws. […]

14 Sep

Windows 10 KB5005565 & KB5005566 cumulative updates released

Microsoft released the Windows 10 KB5005565 and KB5005566 cumulative updates as part of the September 2021 Patch Tuesday. These updates fix bugs and vulnerabilities in the Windows 10 May 2021 Update (version 21H1), October 2020 Update (version 20H2), and May 2020 Update (version 2004). […]

14 Sep

Millions of HP OMEN gaming PCs impacted by driver vulnerability

Millions of HP OMEN laptop and desktop gaming computers are exposed to attacks by a high severity vulnerability that can let threat actors trigger denial of service states or escalate privileges and disable security solutions. […]

13 Sep

Google patches 10th Chrome zero-day exploited in the wild this year

Google has released Chrome 93.0.4577.82 for Windows, Mac, and Linux to fix eleven security vulnerabilities, two of them being zero-days exploited in the wild. […]

Month: September 2021

Ransomware encrypts South Africa’s entire Dept of Justice network

MikroTik shares info on securing routers hit by massive Mēris botnet

Ransomware gang threatens to wipe decryption key if negotiator hired

Microsoft fixes remaining Windows PrintNightmare vulnerabilities

Microsoft fixes Windows CVE-2021-40444 MSHTML zero-day bug

Google Chromebook bug causes black screens after login

Microsoft September 2021 Patch Tuesday fixes 2 zero-days, 60 flaws

Windows 10 KB5005565 & KB5005566 cumulative updates released

Millions of HP OMEN gaming PCs impacted by driver vulnerability

Google patches 10th Chrome zero-day exploited in the wild this year