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New IoT botnet launches stealthy DDoS attacks, spreads malware

A new botnet is actively targeting IoT devices using payloads compiled for a dozen CPU architectures and uses them to launch several types of DDoS and to spread various types of malware. […]

08 Apr

Zoom removes meeting IDs from client title bar to boost security

A new update to the Zoom client has been released that removes the meeting ID from the title bar when conducting meetings to increase security and to prevent them from being exposed in screenshots. […]

08 Apr

Microsoft: No surge in malicious attacks, only more COVID-19 lures

Microsoft says that the volume of malicious attacks hasn’t increased but, instead, threat actors have repurposed infrastructure used in previous attacks and rethemed attack campaigns to exploit fears surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. […]

07 Apr

Microsoft and Google postpone insecure authentication removal

Microsoft says that Basic Authentication’s removal from Exchange Online is being postponed until the second half of 2021 due to the current situation created by the COVID-19 pandemic. […]

07 Apr

NASA under ‘significantly increasing’ hacking, phishing attacks

NASA has seen “significantly increasing” malicious activity from both nation-state hackers and cybercriminals targeting the US space agency’s systems and personnel working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic. […]

07 Apr

Drug testing firm sends data breach alerts after ransomware attack

Hammersmith Medicines Research LTD (HMR), a research company on standby to perform live trials of Coronavirus vaccines, has started emailing data breach notifications after having their data stolen and published in a ransomware attack. […]

07 Apr

Microsoft buys corp.com to prevent Windows account hijacking

Microsoft has purchased the Corp.com domain to prevent it from being used by malicious actors to steal Windows credentials, monitor customer traffic, or serve malicious files. […]

06 Apr

80% of all exposed Exchange servers still unpatched for critical flaw

More than 350,000 of all Microsoft Exchange servers currently exposed on the Internet haven’t yet been patched against the CVE-2020-0688 post-auth remote code execution vulnerability affecting all supported Microsoft Exchange Server versions. […]

06 Apr

FBI warns again of BEC scammers exploiting cloud email services

FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has issued today a public service announcement warning of cybercriminals abusing popular cloud-based email services as part of Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks. […]

06 Apr

PSA: Fake Zoom installers being used to distribute malware

Attackers are taking advantage of the increased popularity of the Zoom video conferencing service to distribute installers that are bundled with malware and adware applications. […]

Tag: security

New IoT botnet launches stealthy DDoS attacks, spreads malware

Zoom removes meeting IDs from client title bar to boost security

Microsoft: No surge in malicious attacks, only more COVID-19 lures

Microsoft and Google postpone insecure authentication removal

NASA under ‘significantly increasing’ hacking, phishing attacks

Drug testing firm sends data breach alerts after ransomware attack

Microsoft buys corp.com to prevent Windows account hijacking

80% of all exposed Exchange servers still unpatched for critical flaw

FBI warns again of BEC scammers exploiting cloud email services

PSA: Fake Zoom installers being used to distribute malware