Numerous variants of the trojan Dofoil repeatedly attempted to infect Microsoft Windows systems on Tuesday, trying to install a cryptocurrency miner. On Wednesday, the company reported a defensive victory over the fast-moving campaign. Across a … [Read more...] about Dofoil Crypto Mining Malware Impacting Window Users
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Emotent Virus Infects a City’s Computer System
This week, the Emotent virus hit an entire city’s computer systems, that of Allentown in Pennsylvania. The Mayor, Ed Pawlowski, announced on Tuesday that the town had been forced into shutting down some of its financial and public safety operations … [Read more...] about Emotent Virus Infects a City’s Computer System
Skype Zero Day Won’t Be Fixed Anytime Soon
A zero day security flaw in the Skype updater process can be exploited to give an attacker system-level privileges on a vulnerable computer, effectively allowing them access to every part of the targeted operating system. Security researcher Stefan … [Read more...] about Skype Zero Day Won’t Be Fixed Anytime Soon
Microsoft and AMD Stop Spectre Patches Updates
Since Microsoft issued the patches for the chipset vulnerabilities known as Meltdown and Spectre that came to light via Google’s Project Zero last week, people who have AMD computers have issued complaints about their computers crashing to a Blue … [Read more...] about Microsoft and AMD Stop Spectre Patches Updates
Microsoft Release 14 Patches
On Tuesday, Microsoft released 14 security updates, including fixes for the flaws in Meltdown and Spectre that were widely reported last week, plus a zero-day bug in Microsoft Office that is being exploited in the wild. Adobe separately pushed out a … [Read more...] about Microsoft Release 14 Patches