November 2022 – Page 4

Pro-Russian hacktivists take down EU Parliament site in DDoS attack

The website of the European Parliament has been taken down following a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack claimed by Anonymous Russia, part of the pro-Russian hacktivist group Killnet. […]

23 Nov

The Black Friday 2022 Security, IT, VPN, & Antivirus Deals

Black Friday is almost here, and great deals are already live today for computer security, software, online courses, system admin services, antivirus, and VPN software. […]

23 Nov

Mali GPU ‘patch gap’ leaves Android users vulnerable to attacks

A set of five exploitable vulnerabilities in Arm’s Mali GPU driver remain unfixed months after the chip maker patched them, leaving potentially millions of Android devices exposed to attacks. […]

22 Nov

Windows Subsystem for Linux generally available via Microsoft Store

Microsoft announced today that the Store version of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is generally available for Windows 10 and 11 customers. […]

22 Nov

Microsoft warns of Remote Desktop freezes on Windows 11 22H2

Microsoft is investigating and working on a fix for Remote Desktop issues on Windows 11 systems after installing the Windows 11 2022 Update. […]

22 Nov

Donut extortion group also targets victims with ransomware

The Donut (D0nut) extortion group has been confirmed to deploy ransomware in double-extortion attacks on the enterprise. […]

22 Nov

Hackers breach energy orgs via bugs in discontinued web server

Microsoft said today that security vulnerabilities found to impact a web server discontinued since 2005 have been used to target and compromise organizations in the energy sector. […]

22 Nov

Windows 10 22H2 now in broad deployment, available to everyone

Microsoft has tagged Windows 10, version 22H2 (aka the Windows 10 2022 Update) for broad deployment, thus making it available to everyone via Windows Update. […]

21 Nov

Two Estonians arrested for running $575M crypto Ponzi scheme

Two Estonian nationals were arrested in Tallinn, Estonia, on Sunday after being indicted in the U.S. for running a massive cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme that led to losses of more than $575 million. […]

21 Nov

Aurora infostealer malware increasingly adopted by cybergangs

Cybercriminals are increasingly turning to a new Go-based information stealer named ‘Aurora’ to steal sensitive information from browsers and cryptocurrency apps, exfiltrate data directly from disks, and load additional payloads. […]

Month: November 2022

Pro-Russian hacktivists take down EU Parliament site in DDoS attack

The Black Friday 2022 Security, IT, VPN, & Antivirus Deals

Mali GPU ‘patch gap’ leaves Android users vulnerable to attacks

Windows Subsystem for Linux generally available via Microsoft Store

Microsoft warns of Remote Desktop freezes on Windows 11 22H2

Donut extortion group also targets victims with ransomware

Hackers breach energy orgs via bugs in discontinued web server

Windows 10 22H2 now in broad deployment, available to everyone

Two Estonians arrested for running $575M crypto Ponzi scheme

Aurora infostealer malware increasingly adopted by cybergangs