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The Week in Ransomware - January 14th 2022 - Russia finally takes action
Today, the Russian government announced that they arrested fourteen members of the REvil ransomware gang on behalf of US authorities.
- January 14, 2022
- 06:53 PM
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Microsoft resumes rollout of January Windows Server updates
The January 2022 Windows Server cumulative updates are once again available via Windows Update after being pulled yesterday without an official reason from Microsoft.
- January 14, 2022
- 04:28 PM
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Goodwill discloses data breach on its ShopGoodwill platform
American nonprofit Goodwill has disclosed a data breach that affected the accounts of customers using its ShopGoodwill.com e-commerce auction platform.
- January 14, 2022
- 04:13 PM
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Former DHS official charged with stealing govt employees' PII
A former Department of Homeland Security acting inspector general pleaded guilty today to stealing confidential and proprietary software and sensitive databases from the US government containing employees' personal identifying information (PII).
- January 14, 2022
- 03:22 PM
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White House reminds tech giants open source is a national security issue
The White House wants government and private sector organizations to rally their efforts and resources to secure open-source software and its supply chain after the Log4J vulnerabilities exposed critical infrastructure to threat actors' attacks.
- January 14, 2022
- 02:04 PM
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Researchers develop CAPTCHA solver to aid dark web research
A team of researchers at the Universities of Arizona, Georgia, and South Florida, have developed a machine-learning-based CAPTCHA solver that they claim can overcome 94.4% of real challenges on dark websites.
- January 14, 2022
- 01:35 PM
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Defense contractor Hensoldt confirms Lorenz ransomware attack
Hensoldt, a multinational defense contractor headquartered in Germany, has confirmed that some of its UK subsidiary's systems were compromised in a ransomware attack.
- January 14, 2022
- 12:33 PM
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New Intel chips won't play Blu-ray disks due to SGX deprecation
Intel has removed support for SGX (software guard extension) in 12th Generation Intel Core 11000 and 12000 processors, rendering modern PCs unable to playback Blu-ray disks in 4K resolution.
- January 14, 2022
- 11:46 AM
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Multiple Ukrainian government websites hacked and defaced
At least 15 websites belonging to various Ukrainian public institutions were compromised, defaced, and subsequently taken offline.
- January 14, 2022
- 11:11 AM
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Russia arrests REvil ransomware gang members, seize $6.6 million
The Federal Security Service (FSB) of the Russian Federation has announced today that they shut down the REvil ransomware gang after U.S. authorities reported on the leader.
- January 14, 2022
- 08:51 AM
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Android users can now disable 2G to block Stingray attacks
Google has finally rolled out an option on Android allowing users to disable 2G connections, which come with a host of privacy and security problems exploited by cell-site simulators.
- January 13, 2022
- 04:56 PM
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FCC wants new data breach reporting rules for telecom carriers
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has proposed more rigorous data breach reporting requirements for telecom carriers in response to breaches that recently hit the telecommunications industry.
- January 13, 2022
- 04:39 PM
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- January 13, 2022
- 03:14 PM
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AWS fixes security flaws allowing access to AWS customer data
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has addressed an AWS Glue security issue that allowed attackers to access and alter data linked to other AWS customer accounts.
- January 13, 2022
- 03:04 PM
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Microsoft pulls new Windows Server updates due to critical bugs
Microsoft has pulled the January Windows Server cumulative updates after critical bugs caused domain controllers to reboot, Hyper-V to not work, and ReFS volume systems to become unavailable.
- January 13, 2022
- 01:35 PM
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Microsoft Defender weakness lets hackers bypass malware detection
Threat actors can take advantage of a weakness that affects Microsoft Defender antivirus on Windows to learn locations excluded from scanning and plant malware there.
- January 13, 2022
- 01:08 PM
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BlueNoroff hackers steal crypto using fake MetaMask extension
The North Korean threat actor group known as 'BlueNoroff' has been spotted targeting cryptocurrency startups with malicious documents and fake MetaMask browser extensions.
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