Daniel Miessler

OCTOBER 4, 2020

I’ve been writing a lot on ransomware recently , and wanted to comment on an interesting new development in attackers’ toolchests. At first they started with: If you don’t pay, you won’t get your data back. This is the original ransomware tactic. It’s a denial of service against your data. You pay, and you (sometimes) get your data back.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Visa revealed that two unnamed North American hospitality merchants have been infected with some strains of point-of-sale (POS) malware. US payments processor Visa revealed that two North American hospitality merchants have been hacked, threat actors infected the systems of the two unnamed organizations with some strains of point-of-sale (POS) malware.

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Dark Reading

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Until all domain controllers are updated, the entire infrastructure remains vulnerable, the DHS' CISA warns.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2020

HP published details of three vulnerabilities in the HP Device Manager that could be exploited by attackers to take over Windows systems. HP released a security advisory that includes details for three critical and high severity vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2020-6925, CVE-2020-6926, and CVE-2020-6927, that impact the HP Device Manager. The IT giant revealed that an attacker could exploit the vulnerabilities to take over Windows systems.

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Daniel Miessler

OCTOBER 4, 2020

The US is currently being ravaged by ransomware. Google News Results for US Ransomware. Our schools are being disabled, our small businesses are being pilfered, our cities are being taken offline, and now our hospitals are being attacked as well. I talk about the reasons here , but in short, we have long had a horrible state of security in our local governments, our small businesses, our schools, and our hospitals.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2020

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. Apple addresses four vulnerabilities in macOS Google removes 17 Joker -infected apps from the Play Store Microsoft took down 18 Azure AD apps used by Chinese Gadolinium APT Mount Locker ransomware operators demand multi-million dollar ransoms Putin proposes new information security collaboration to US, including no-hack pact for election REvil

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