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The Play ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for a cyber attack on H-Hotels (h-hotels.com) that has resulted in communication outages for the company.

A compromised Ukrainian Ministry of Defense email account was found sending phishing emails and instant messages to users of the DELTA situational awareness program to infect systems with information-stealing malware.

Google announced on Friday that its adding end-to-end encryption to Gmail on the web, allowing enrolled Google Workspace users to send and receive encrypted emails within their domain and outside their domain. 

Colombian energy company Empresas Públicas de Medellín (EPM) suffered a BlackCat/ALPHV ransomware attack on Monday, disrupting the companys operations and taking down online services.

A new cross-platform malware botnet named MCCrash is infecting Windows, Linux, and IoT devices to conduct distributed denial of service attacks on Minecraft servers.

Microsoft says that Windows 10 updates released in late September are causing Windows taskbar flicker issues and app instability.

The US Department of Justice has seized 48 Internet domains and charged six suspects for their involvement in running Booter or Stresser platforms that allow anyone to easily conduct distributed denial of service attacks.

Microsoft has addressed an LSASS memory leak issue on some domain controllers that led to freezes and restarts after installing Windows Server updates released during last months Patch Tuesday.

​Today is Microsofts December 2022 Patch Tuesday, and with it comes fixes for two zero-day vulnerabilities, including an actively exploited bug, and a total of 49 flaws.

Microsoft has fixed a security vulnerability used by threat actors to circumvent the Windows SmartScreen security feature and deliver Magniber ransomware and Qbot malware payloads.