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New Phishing Scam Asks You to Manage Your Undelivered Email

A new phishing campaign is underway that pretends to be a list undelivered email being held for you on your Outlook Web Mail service. Users are then prompted to decide what they wish to do with each mail, with the respective links leading to a fake login form. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-phishing-scam-asks-you-to-manage-your-undelivered-email/
How to Download a Windows 10 ISO By Impersonating Other Devices

Microsoft allows you to download the latest Windows 10 ISOs from their site, but only if you are using a non-Windows browser user agent. This article will explain how to change your user agent in Chrome and Edge so you can download an ISO instead of using the Windows 10 Media Creation Tool. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/how-to-download-a-windows-10-iso-by-impersonating-other-devices/
Google Outage in Eastern U.S. Affecting Gmail, YouTube, and More

Network issues in the eastern part of the United State are causing outages in Google Cloud and the Google Compute Engine and the services that rely on them. This is causing problems connecting and using G Suite, Gmail, YouTube, and even third-party services such as Snapchat and Discord. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-outage-in-eastern-us-affecting-gmail-youtube-and-more/
Windows 10 Apps Hit by Malicious Ads that Blockers Won't Stop

Windows 10 users in Germany are reporting that while using their computer, their default browser would suddenly open to malicious and scam advertisements. These advertisements are being shown by malvertising campaigns on the Microsoft Advertising network that are being displayed in ad supported apps. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/windows-10-apps-hit-by-malicious-ads-that-blockers-wont-stop/
Improper App Check Revives the Synthetic Clicks Issue in macOS Mojave

An unpatched flaw in the app verification process on macOS Mojave allows trusted apps to load and execute unverified content on the machine. The bug is easy to exploit and can be used to generate synthetic clicks that allow malicious actions. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/improper-app-check-revives-the-synthetic-clicks-issue-in-macos-mojave/
Private Info of Over 1.5M Donors Leaked by UChicago Medicine

The personal information of more than 1,6 million potential and existing University of Chicago Medicine donors were exposed by a misconfigured and unprotected ElasticSearch server left open on the Internet without a password. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/private-info-of-over-15m-donors-leaked-by-uchicago-medicine/
Attackers Stitch Together Frankenstein Campaign Using Free Tools

Threat actors behind a highly-targeted series of cyber attacks spanning from January to April 2019 have been seen employing malicious tools built using freely available components to infect victims with malware designed to harvest credentials. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/attackers-stitch-together-frankenstein-campaign-using-free-tools/
MetaSploit Module Created for BlueKeep Flaw, Private for Now

A researcher has created a module for the Metasploit Framework for penetration testing that exploits the critical BlueKeep vulnerability on vulnerable Windows XP, 7, and Server 2008 machines to achieve remote code execution. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/metasploit-module-created-for-bluekeep-flaw-private-for-now/