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Troy Hunt
JANUARY 5, 2018
I only touch briefly on them in this week's update and I refer people to my Twitter timeline for good coverage I've shared. All new year and already someone has gone and broken our computer things courtesy of the Meltdown and Spectre bugs. iTunes podcast | Google Play Music podcast | RSS podcast. References.
The Hacker News
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
Microsoft's latest round of monthly security updates has been released with fixes for 68 vulnerabilities spanning its software portfolio, including patches for six actively exploited zero-days. 12 of the issues are rated Critical, two are rated High, and 55 are rated Important in severity. Also separately
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Troy Hunt
JULY 20, 2018
We're putting these out for free every few months and right after wrapping up this week's update, I recorded the next Pluralsight one and that's now gone off to them for editing. I don't mean for this to become a repetitive topic (and I'm sure it'll die down after Chrome 68 hits next week), but this week got pretty crazy.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 6, 2020
Emotet is a modular malware, its operators could develop new Dynamic Link Libraries to update its capabilities. The infamous banking trojan is also used to deliver other malicious code, such as Trickbot and QBot trojan or ransomware such as Conti (TrickBot) or ProLock (QBot).
Malwarebytes
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
Not only had the infrastructure been dismantled, but previously infected computers had received a special update that would effectively remove the malware at a specific date. Out of the woods again. On November 15, security researchers who’ve tracked Emotet announced that the threat was back. A return of malspam waves and ransomware?
CyberSecurity Insiders
APRIL 4, 2023
The latest iteration of this is the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and the resulting banking crisis, which has presented an opportunity for attackers to spoof highly sensitive communication, for example seeking to intercept legitimate communication instructing recipients to update bank details for payroll.
SecureWorld News
JUNE 4, 2020
A scan shows a total of five servers in China and 68 in the United States that apparently run the same Zoom server software as the Beijing server.". And the Zoom team has been regularly updating its security and privacy improvements since that time. Things seemed to be heading downhill quite fast.
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