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Heres how law enforcements Emotet malware module works By New research released today provides greater insight into the Emotet module created by law enforcement that will uninstall the malware from infected devices in April. On January 27th, Europol announced that a joint operation between law enforcement agencies from Netherlands, Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Lithuania, Canada, and Ukraine took control of the Emotet botnets servers and disrupted the malwares opera...

Microsoft: 8 trillion daily signals power our cybersecurity services By 04:37 PM Microsofts security services grew by $10 billion in 2020, as more companies began utilizing their cloud-based security services. Microsoft released the second quarter of the fiscal year 2021 earnings this week and beat consensus estimates by 7.36%. While most of this growth is attributed to Azure and Xbox, Microsofts new blog post shows that security services are becoming a larger part of their revenue stream. A...

Pan-Asian retail giant Dairy Farm suffers REvil ransomware attack By Massive pan-Asian retail chain operator Dairy Farm Group was attacked this month by the REvil ransomware operation. The attackers claim to have demanded a $30 million ransom. The Dairy Farm Group operates over 10,000 outlets and has 230,000 employees throughout Asia. In 2019, the Dairy Farm Groups total annual sales exceeded $27 billion. The group operates numerous grocery, convenience store, health and beauty, home furnishi...

Beware of this active UK NHS COVID-19 vaccination phishing attack By 06:27 PM A very active phishing campaign is underway pretending to be from the UKs National Health Service (NHS), alerting recipients that they are eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Today, numerous Twitter users began reporting that they received this phishing email, with some being in the right age group to be eligible and thus falling for the scam. There are multiple variants of the phishing emails, but they all cla...

For anybody who has ever been elected into office, from the student union to a national legislature, the recent scenes in Washington DC have been particularly disturbing. When reports appear about the efforts Trump made blackmailing the State of Georgia into changing their results, it is even more disturbing for those of us who also experience threats or blackmail while holding some form of office or voluntary leadership role. In my case, the free software community elected me as a representat...

»Beeper Is a New App That Keeps All Your Messaging Apps in One Place: Heres How It Works 2-MIN READ Beeper Is a New App That Keeps All Your Messaging Apps in One Place: Heres How It Works Beeper. While announcing the new app, founder Eric Migicovsky said that Beeper allows iMessage to work even on Android, Windows, and Linux, but it involves using "some trickery." FOLLOW US ON: Beeper is a new platform that brings all your messaging apps together in one place. Created by the founder of Pebble ...

Project members discuss conflict between principles and pragmatism because of need for non-free drivers Tim Anderson Fri 22 Jan 2021 // 11:15 UTC Share Copy A post on the Debian developer list about issues installing the operating system on a laptop sparked a debate about whether Debians free software principles have become a blocker to adoption. Wanting to convert his laptop from Windows 10 to Debian, Dan Pal clicked "Download" on the Linux distros homepage. It did not ...

The FreakOut botnet is targeting Linux-based systems that include the TerraMaster operating system, which manages TerraMaster network-attached storage servers; the Zend framework, designed to build web application services using PHP; and Liferay Portal, a web application platform that enables users to create portals and websites. Each of these open-source systems has a vulnerability that the FreakOut botnet attempts to exploit, the researchers say. In the TerraMaster OS, the remote code executi...

Hackers hitting thousands of organizations worldwide in a massive phishing campaign forgot to protect their loot and let Google the stolen passwords for public searches.

A set of seven vulnerabilities, called DNSpooq, allows attackers to redirect users or execute malicious code. Patch dnsmasq now