IT Security News

  • Microsoft Patches ‘Dogwalk’ Zero-Day and 17 Critical Flaws

    August Patch Tuesday tackles 121 CVEs, 17 critical bugs and one zero-day bug exploited in the wild.

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  • Microsoft Patch Tuesday, August 2022 Edition

    Microsoft today released updates to fix a record 141 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and related software. Once again, Microsoft is patching a zero-day vulnerability in the Microsoft Support Diagnostics Tool (MSDT), a service built into Windows. Redmond also addressed multiple flaws in Exchange Server — including one that was disclosed publicly prior to today — and it is urging organizations that use Exchange for email to update as soon as possible and to enable additional protections.

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  • Virtual Currency Platform ‘Tornado Cash’ Accused of Aiding APTs

    U.S. Treasury blocked the business of the virtual currency mixer for laundering more than $7 billion for hackers, including $455 million to help fund North Korea’s missile program.

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  • Phishers Swim Around 2FA in Coinbase Account Heists

    Attackers are spoofing the widely used cryptocurrency exchange to trick users into logging in so they can steal their credentials and eventually their funds.

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  • Class Action Targets Experian Over Account Security

    A class action lawsuit has been filed against big-three consumer credit bureau Experian over reports that the company did little to prevent identity thieves from hijacking consumer accounts. The legal filing cites liberally from an investigation KrebsOnSecurity published in July, which found that identity thieves were able to assume control over existing Experian accounts simply by signing up for new accounts using the victim’s personal information and a different email address.

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  • Open Redirect Flaw Snags Amex, Snapchat User Data

    Separate phishing campaigns targeting thousands of victims impersonate FedEx and Microsoft, among others, to trick victims.

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  • Scammers Sent Uber to Take Elderly Lady to the Bank

    Email scammers sent an Uber to the home of an 80-year-old woman who responded to a well-timed email scam, in a bid to make sure she went to the bank and wired money to the fraudsters.  In this case, the woman figured out she was being scammed before embarking for the bank, but her story is a chilling reminder of how far crooks will go these days to rip people off.

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  • VMWare Urges Users to Patch Critical Authentication Bypass Bug

    Vulnerability—for which a proof-of-concept is forthcoming—is one of a string of flaws the company fixed that could lead to an attack chain.

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  • Universities Put Email Users at Cyber Risk

    DMARC analysis by Proofpoint shows that institutions in the U.S. have among some of the poorest protections to prevent domain spoofing and lack protections to block fraudulent emails.

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  • No SOCKS, No Shoes, No Malware Proxy Services!

    With the recent demise of several popular "proxy" services that let cybercriminals route their malicious traffic through hacked PCs, there is now something of a supply chain crisis gripping the underbelly of the Internet. Compounding the problem, several remaining malware-based proxy services have chosen to block new registrations to avoid swamping their networks with a sudden influx of customers.

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