Afraid of missing important security news during the week? We’re here to help! Every week we put together a curated list of all important security news in one place, for your reading pleasure. Enjoy!
For the less technical
- Google meddling with URLs in emails, causing security concerns
- German Cabinet plans to give intel agencies access to messenger apps
- The police can probably break into your phone
- NSS Labs shuttered
- Edward Snowden gets permanent residency in Russia
- Russia’s clandestine chemical weapons programme and the GRU’s unit 29155
- Ransomware gang donates part of ransom demands to charity organizations
- Barnes & Noble hit by Egregor ransomware, strange data leaked
- How a secretive phone company helped the crime world go dark
For the more technical
- Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory – October 2020
- Microsoft addresses RCE bugs in Windows Codecs Library and Visual Studio Code
- Waze: How I tracked your mother
- XSS to TSS: tech support scam campaign abuses cross-site scripting vulnerability
- WordPress deploys forced security update for dangerous bug in popular plugin
- Loginizer before 1.6.4 SQLi injection
- Multiple mobile browser address bar spoofing vulnerabilities
- Discord Desktop app RCE
- T-RAT 2.0: Malware control via smartphone
- Chinese state-sponsored actors exploit publicly known vulnerabilities (PDF)
- Ryuk in 5 hours
- Raccine: A simple ransomware protection
- Life of Maze ransomware
- An update on disruption of Trickbot
- Wizard Spider update: Resilient, reactive and resolute
- Emotet malware now wants you to upgrade Microsoft Word
- LockBit uses automated attack tools to identify tasty targets
- Hackers now abuse BaseCamp for free malware hosting
- GravityRAT: The spy returns
- MuddyWater’s offensive attack against Israeli organizations (PDF)
- US indicts Sandworm, Russia’s most destructive cyberwar unit
- Russian state-sponsored advanced persistent threat actor compromises U.S. government targets
- Industry alert pins state, local government hacking on suspected Russian group
- Looking into the eye of the Interplanetary Storm (PDF)
- CrimeOps of the KashmirBlack botnet – Part I & II
- The OSINT Handbook 2020 (PDF)
- Introducing Microsoft Edge preview builds for Linux
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