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Hezbollah hackers attack unpatched Atlassian servers at telcos, ISPs

Volatile Cedar, an advanced hacker group believed to be connected to the Lebanese Hezbollah Cyber Unit, has been silently attacking companies around the world in espionage operations. […]

28 Jan

Google Chrome blocks 7 more ports to stop NAT Slipstreaming attacks

Google Chrome now blocks access to websites on an additional seven TCP ports to protect against the NAT Slipstreaming 2.0 vulnerability. […]

27 Jan

Microsoft rolls out Application Guard for Office to all customers

Microsoft has announced that Application Guard for Office is now generally available for all Microsoft 365 users with supported licenses. […]

27 Jan

US charges NetWalker ransomware affiliate, seizes ransom payments

The U.S. Justice Department announced today the disruption of the Netwalker ransomware operation and the indictment of a Canadian national for alleged involvement in the file-encrypting extortion attacks. […]

27 Jan

Europol: Emotet malware will uninstall itself on March 25th

Law enforcement has started to distribute an Emotet module to infected devices that will uninstall the malware on March 25th, 2021. […]

27 Jan

Netwalker ransomware dark web sites seized by law enforcement

The dark web websites associated with the Netwalker ransomware operation have been seized by law enforcement from the USA and Bulgaria. […]

27 Jan

Linux malware uses open-source tool to evade detection

AT&T Alien Labs security researchers have discovered that the TeamTNT cybercrime group upgraded their Linux crypto-mining with open-source detection evasion capabilities. […]

27 Jan

Emotet botnet disrupted after global takedown operation

The infrastructure of today’s most dangerous botnet built by cybercriminals using the Emotet malware was taken down following an international coordinated action coordinated by Europol and Eurojust. […]

27 Jan

Here’s how a researcher broke into Microsoft VS Code’s GitHub

This month a researcher was awarded a bug bounty award of an undisclosed amount after he broke into the official GitHub repository of Microsoft Visual Studio Code. A vulnerability in VS Code’s issue management function and a lack of authentication checks enabled the researcher to obtain push access, and write to the repository. […]

26 Jan

Microsoft releases new Windows 10 Intel CPU microcode updates

Microsoft has released a new set of Intel microcode updates for Windows 10 20H2, 2004, 1909, and older versions to fix bugs impacting multiple Intel CPU families. […]