by Syndicated News Feed | Sep 17, 2024 | IT Security
Five individuals and one company with ties to spyware developer Intellexa are the latest to earn sanctions as the US expands efforts to stamp out spyware. The latest sanctions from the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) follow...
by Syndicated News Feed | Sep 17, 2024 | IT Security
ESET Research ESET researchers discuss how they uncovered a zero-day Telegram for Android exploit that allowed attackers to send malicious files posing as videos 17 Sep 2024 • , 1 min. read Telegram, with nearly a billion monthly users, is a juicy target for...
by Syndicated News Feed | Sep 16, 2024 | IT Security
A Chinese national has been accused of conducting a years-long spear-phishing campaign that aimed to steal source code from the US Army and NASA, plus other highly sensitive software used in aerospace engineering and military applications. At least some of the spears...
by Syndicated News Feed | Sep 16, 2024 | IT Security
Microsoft has fixed a known issue that causes Microsoft 365 apps like Outlook, Word, Excel, and OneNote to crash while typing or spell-checking a text. The crashes affect users of Excel for Microsoft 365, Word for Microsoft 365, Outlook for Microsoft 365, PowerPoint...
by Syndicated News Feed | Sep 16, 2024 | IT Security
CISA has ordered U.S. federal agencies to secure their systems against a recently patched Windows MSHTML spoofing zero-day bug exploited by the Void Banshee APT hacking group. The vulnerability (CVE-2024-43461) was disclosed during this month’s Patch Tuesday,...
by Syndicated News Feed | Sep 16, 2024 | IT Security
Snowflake continues to push forward in strengthening its users’ cybersecurity posture by making multi-factor authentication the default for all new accounts. The imposition follows a lighter-touch move in July when it enabled admins to mandate MFA across their...