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β€ŠRansom Cartel, Reveton ransomware owner arrested, charged in US

Belarusian-Ukrainian national Maksim Silnikau was arrested in Spain and is now extradited to the USA to face charges for creating the Ransom Cartel ransomware operation in 2021 and running a malvertising operation from 2013 to 2022. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ransom-cartel-reveton-ransomware-owner-arrested-charged-in-us/
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β€ŠIvanti warns of critical vTM auth bypass with public exploit

​Today, Ivanti urged customers to patch a critical authentication bypass vulnerability impacting Virtual Traffic Manager (vTM) appliances that can let attackers create rogue administrator accounts. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ivanti-warns-of-critical-vtm-auth-bypass-with-public-exploit/
β€ŠWindows 11 KB5041585 cumulative update released with fixes, new features

Microsoft has released the KB5041585 cumulative update for Windows 11 23H2, which includes many improvements and changes, including the ability to directly drag apps from the Pinned section of the Start menu and pin them to the taskbar. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-11-kb5041585-cumulative-update-released-with-fixes-new-features/
β€ŠMicrosoft August 2024 Patch Tuesday fixes 9 zero-days, 6 exploited

Today is Microsoft's August 2024 Patch Tuesday, which includes security updates for 89 flaws, including six actively exploited and three publicly disclosed zero-days. Microsoft is still working on an update for a tenth publicly disclosed zero-day. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-august-2024-patch-tuesday-fixes-9-zero-days-6-exploited/
β€ŠGoogle: Gemini AI for Android processes sensitive data locally

Google says it is taking a privacy-minded approach to the integration of AI features like the Gemini assistant on Android devices, implementing end-to-end protection to secure data in transit while keeping the most sensitive data locally on the device. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-gemini-ai-for-android-processes-sensitive-data-locally/
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β€ŠCritical SAP flaw allows remote attackers to bypass authentication

SAP has released its security patch package for August 2024, addressing 17 vulnerabilities, including a critical authentication bypass that could allow remote attackers to fully compromise the system. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/critical-sap-flaw-allows-remote-attackers-to-bypass-authentication/
β€ŠNew Windows SmartScreen bypass exploited as zero-day since March

Today, Microsoft revealed that a Mark of the Web security bypass vulnerability exploited by attackers as a zero-day to bypass SmartScreen protection was patched during the June 2024 Patch Tuesday. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/new-windows-smartscreen-bypass-exploited-as-zero-day-since-march/
β€ŠSolarWinds fixes critical RCE bug affecting all Web Help Desk versions

A critical vulnerability in SolarWinds' Web Help Desk solution for customer support could be exploited to achieve remote code execution, the American business software developer warns in a security advisory today. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/solarwinds-fixes-critical-rce-bug-affecting-all-web-help-desk-versions/
β€ŠMicrosoft retires Windows updates causing 0x80070643 errors

Microsoft has retired several Windows security updates released during the January 2024 Patch Tuesday that have been causing 0x80070643 errors when installing Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) updates. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-retires-windows-updates-causing-0x80070643-errors/
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β€ŠNIST releases first encryption tools to resist quantum computing

The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released the first three encryption standards designed to resist future cyberattacks based on quantum computing technology. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/nist-releases-first-encryption-tools-to-resist-quantum-computing/
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β€ŠGitHub Actions artifacts found leaking auth tokens in popular projects

Multiple high-profile open-source projects, including those from Google, Microsoft, AWS, and Red Hat, were found to leak GitHub authentication tokens through GitHub Actions artifacts in CI/CD workflows. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/github-actions-artifacts-found-leaking-auth-tokens-in-popular-projects/
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β€ŠZero-click Windows TCP/IP RCE impacts all systems with IPv6 enabled

Microsoft warned customers this Tuesday to patch a critical TCP/IP remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability with an increased likelihood of exploitation that impacts all Windows systems with IPv6 enabled. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/zero-click-windows-tcp-ip-rce-impacts-all-systems-with-ipv6-enabled/
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β€ŠRussian who sold 300,000 stolen credentials gets 40 months in prison

​Georgy Kavzharadze, a 27-year-old Russian national, has been sentenced to 40 months in prison for selling login credentials for over 300,000 accounts on Slilpp, the largest online marketplace of stolen logins, until its seizure in June 2021. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/russian-who-sold-300-000-stolen-credentials-gets-40-months-in-prison/
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β€ŠMicrosoft disables BitLocker security fix, advises manual mitigation

Microsoft has disabled a fix for a BitLocker security feature bypass vulnerability due to firmware incompatibility issues that were causing patched Windows devices to go into BitLocker recovery mode. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-disables-bitlocker-security-fix-advises-manual-mitigation/
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