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New “Elon Musk Club” crypto giveaway scam promoted via email

A new Elon Musk-themed cryptocurrency giveaway scam called the “Elon Musk Mutual Aid Fund” or “Elon Musk Club” is being promoted through spam email campaigns that started over the past few weeks. […]

AT&T lost $200M in seven years to illegal phone unlocking scheme

A Pakistani fraudster was sentenced earlier this week to 12 years in prison after AT&T, the world’s largest telecommunications company, lost over $200 million after he and his co-conspirators coordinated a seven year scheme that led to the fraudulent unlocking of almost 2 million phones. […]

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. […]

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. […]

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. […]

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. […]

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. […]

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. […]

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. […]

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. […]