11 Feb 12-year-old Windows Defender bug gives hackers admin rights Microsoft has fixed a privilege escalation vulnerability in Microsoft Defender Antivirus (formerly Windows Defender) that could allow attackers to gain admin rights on unpatched Windows systems. […]
11 Feb TrickBot’s BazarBackdoor malware is now coded in Nim to evade antivirus TrickBot’s stealthy BazarBackdoor malware has been rewritten in the Nim programming language, likely to evade detection by security software. […]
11 Feb Hackers ask only $1,500 for access to breached company networks The number of offers for network access and their median prices on the public face of hacker forums dropped in the final quarter of last year but the statistics fail to reflect the real size of the initial access market. […]
10 Feb French MNH health insurance company hit by RansomExx ransomware French health insurance company Mutuelle Nationale des Hospitaliers (MNH) has suffered a ransomware attack that has severely disrupted the company’s operations. BleepingComputer has learned. […]
10 Feb Microsoft Office February security updates patch Sharepoint, Excel RCE bugs Microsoft has addressed important severity remote code execution vulnerabilities affecting multiple Office products in the January 2021 Office security updates. […]
10 Feb Microsoft fixes Windows 10 bug letting attackers trigger BSOD crashes Microsoft has fixed a bug that could allow a threat actor to create specially crafted downloads that crash Windows 10 simply by opening the folder where they are downloaded. […]
10 Feb Apple fixes SUDO root privilege escalation flaw in macOS Apple has fixed a sudo vulnerability in macOS Big Sur, Catalina, and Mojave, allowing any local user to gain root-level privileges. […]
09 Feb HelloKitty ransomware behind CD Projekt Red cyberattack, data theft The ransomware attack against CD Projekt Red was conducted by a ransomware group that goes by the name ‘HelloKitty,’ and yes, that’s the name the threat actors utilize. […]
09 Feb Microsoft urges customers to patch critical Windows TCP/IP bugs Microsoft has urged customers today to install security updates for three Windows TCP/IP vulnerabilities rated as critical and high severity as soon as possible. […]
09 Feb Microsoft: Recent Windows 10 gaming issues caused by Discord bug Microsoft has acknowledged a known issue that was causing Direct3D 12 games to fail to launch or crash with an error on some Windows 10 devices. […]