01 Nov US MS-ISAC Releases the October List of End of Support Software The Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) of the Center for Internet Security has a released the October 2019 list of of software that is currently in or nearing end of support. […]
01 Nov Media Giant Nikkei Losses $29 Million to BEC Scammers Publishing giant Nikkei lost roughly 29 million dollars after an employee of the Nikkei America subsidiary was tricked by scammers to send the funds to a bank account they controlled. […]
01 Nov Media Giant Nikkei Loses $29 Million to BEC Scammers Publishing giant Nikkei lost roughly 29 million dollars after an employee of the Nikkei America subsidiary was tricked by scammers to send the funds to a bank account they controlled. […]
01 Nov Google Chrome is Getting the ‘Close other tabs’ Option Back Google has decided to add the “Close other tabs” right-click context menu option back to Google Chrome. While it is not known why they decided to add it back, I have sorely missed this feature and it a welcome change. […]
01 Nov GandCrab RaaS Was a Training Ground for Malware Distributors GandCrab operators changed the ransomware business from the ground up, establishing a model that is embraced and continued by other cybercriminals. […]
01 Nov Chrome Zero-Day Bug with Exploit in the Wild Gets A Patch Google on Thursday night started to roll out an update for Chrome that patches two use-after-free vulnerabilities, one of them having at least one exploit in the wild. […]
31 Oct Microsoft Shares Solutions for Windows TLS Failures, Timeouts Microsoft has acknowledged a new issue affecting several Windows versions that could lead to Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connections intermittently failing or getting timed out. […]
31 Oct Discord Abused to Spread Malware and Harvest Stolen Data Malware developers and attackers are abusing the Discord chat service by using it to host their malware, act as command and control servers, or by modifying the chat client to perform malicious behavior. […]
31 Oct Chinese Hackers Steal SMS Messages from Linux Routing Servers Chinese hackers deployed a new cyber-espionage tool on Linux servers belonging to a telecommunications network provider to steal SMS message content for specific recipients. […]
31 Oct Microsoft Warns of Windows Slow Startup Due to Persistent Memory Microsoft acknowledged a new known issue impacting several Windows versions and leading to unexpectedly slow startups on computers configured to use persistent memory. […]