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The Windows 10 May 2020 update, also known as Windows 10 2004, has started rolling out to users today. This new Windows 10 version comes with many new features, detailed in a previous ZDNet article, here, including the likes of a revamped Network Status page, the addition of GPU card temperatures to the Task Manager, […] More
Valak first emerged on the scene as a loader for other threats, but over the past six months, everything has changed for the loader-turned-infostealer. Featured stories The malware has been spotted in active campaigns mainly focused entities in the US and Germany, having previously been bundled together with Ursnif and IcedID banking Trojan payloads (1,2). […] More
The operators of the NetWalker (Mailto) ransomware have announced today that they’ve infected the network of Michigan State University, one of the US’ oldest educational institutes. The ransomware gang has given MSU administrators a week to pay an undisclosed ransom demand to decrypt their files. In case MSU officials refuse to pay or choose to […] More
Special feature Cyberwar and the Future of Cybersecurity Today’s security threats have expanded in scope and seriousness. There can now be millions — or even billions — of dollars at risk when information security isn’t handled properly. Read More The Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG), a division inside Google’s security department that tracks nation-state and […] More
Microsoft’s security team has issued an advisory today warning organizations around the globe to deploy protections against a new strain of ransomware that has been in the wild over the past two months. “PonyFinal is a Java-based ransomware that is deployed in human-operated ransomware attacks,” Microsoft said in a series of tweets published today. Human-operated […] More
OpenSSH, the most popular utility for connecting to and managing remote servers, has announced today plans to drop support for its SHA-1 authentication scheme. The OpenSSH team cited security concerns with the SHA-1 hashing algorithm, currently considered insecure. The algorithm was broken in a practical, real-world attack in February 2017, when Google cryptographers disclosed SHAttered, […] More
Cyber attacks targeting corporate cloud services have increased significantly in the last few months as cyber criminals look to exploit the rise in remote working to gain access to corporate accounts. The coronavirus pandemic and the resulting social distancing measures have forced organisations and employees to adapt to working from home with the aid of […] More
Image: Sara Kurfeß Academics say they discovered 26 new vulnerabilities in the USB driver stack employed by operating systems such as Linux, macOs, Windows, and FreeBSD. The research team, made up by Hui Peng from Purdue University and Mathias Payer from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, said all the bugs were discovered with […] More
