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Researchers compile list of vulnerabilities abused by ransomware gangs

Security researchers are working on compiling an easy to follow list of initial access attack vectors ransomware gangs and their affiliates are using to breach victims’ networks. […]

17 Sep

The Week in Ransomware – September 17th 2021 – REvil decrypted

It has been an interesting week with decryptors released, ransomware gangs continuing to rail against negotiators, and the US government expected to sanction crypto exchanges next week. […]

17 Sep

U.S. to sanction crypto exchanges, wallets used by ransomware

The Biden administration is expected to issue sanctions against crypto exchanges, wallets, and traders used by ransomware gangs to convert ransom payments into fiat money. […]

17 Sep

Admin of DDoS service behind 200,000 attacks faces 35yrs in prison

At the end of a nine-day trial, a jury in California this week found guilty the administrator of two distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) operations. […]

17 Sep

Mozilla tests Microsoft Bing as the default Firefox search engine

Mozilla is running a study to test users’ responses to changing the default Firefox search engine to Microsoft Bing. […]

17 Sep

Billions more Android devices will reset risky app permissions

Google announced today that support for a recently released Android privacy protection feature would be backported to billions of devices running older Android versions later this year. […]

17 Sep

OMIGOD: Microsoft Azure VMs exploited to drop Mirai, miners

Threat actors started actively exploiting the critical Azure OMIGOD vulnerabilities two days after Microsoft disclosed them during this month’s Patch Tuesday. […]

17 Sep

Microsoft asks Azure Linux admins to manually patch OMIGOD bugs

Microsoft has issued additional guidance on securing Azure Linux machines impacted by recently addressed critical OMIGOD vulnerabilities. […]

17 Sep

How to fix printers asking for admins creds after PrintNightmare patch

Some printers will request administrator credentials every time users try to print in Windows Point and Print environments due to a known issue caused by KB5005033 or later security updates addressing the PrintNightmare vulnerability. […]

17 Sep

US govt sites showing porn, viagra ads share a common software vendor

Multiple U.S. government sites using .gov and .mil domains have been seen hosting porn and spam content, such as Viagra ads, in the last year. A security researcher noticed all of these sites share a common software vendor, Laserfiche. […]

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Researchers compile list of vulnerabilities abused by ransomware gangs

The Week in Ransomware – September 17th 2021 – REvil decrypted

U.S. to sanction crypto exchanges, wallets used by ransomware

Admin of DDoS service behind 200,000 attacks faces 35yrs in prison

Mozilla tests Microsoft Bing as the default Firefox search engine

Billions more Android devices will reset risky app permissions

OMIGOD: Microsoft Azure VMs exploited to drop Mirai, miners

Microsoft asks Azure Linux admins to manually patch OMIGOD bugs

How to fix printers asking for admins creds after PrintNightmare patch

US govt sites showing porn, viagra ads share a common software vendor