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Over 400,000 Opko Health Clients Impacted by AMCA Data Breach

Medical tests and medication firm OPKO Health Inc present in over 30 countries says that one of its subsidiaries, BioReference Laboratories Inc, was notified by American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA) of unauthorized activity on its web payment page. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-400-000-opko-health-clients-impacted-by-amca-data-breach/
Millions of Exim Mail Servers Exposed to Local, Remote Attacks

A critical severity vulnerability present in multiple versions of the Exim mail transfer agent (MTA) software makes it possible for unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands on mail servers for some non-default server configurations. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/millions-of-exim-mail-servers-exposed-to-local-remote-attacks/
Phishing Email Warns: Add Recovery Number or Account Deleted

BleepingComputer has been focusing on alerting our readers to interesting phishing email campaigns that stand out from the normal invoices, summons, parking tickets, and shipping notifications that we see so often. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/phishing-email-warns-add-recovery-number-or-account-deleted/
Tech Art Piece Delivers Quick Fix For Social Following Hoarders

An art installation created by Belgium artist Dries Depoorter and commissioned by the Pixelache in Helsinki allows one to easily buy followers and likes on the Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter social networking platforms. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/tech-art-piece-delivers-quick-fix-for-social-following-hoarders/
Google Chrome is Getting Closer to Working Tab Groups

Google Chrome is getting closer to a working Tab Group implementation with the ability to add tabs to groups, headers for each group being displayed, and in the latest Chrome Canary build, groups being saved between browser sessions. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/google-chrome-is-getting-closer-to-working-tab-groups/
Internet Explorer Mode Now Works in Microsoft Edge Dev Builds

In the Microsoft Edge Dev builds, users can now launch web pages in an Internet Explorer tab for backwards compatibility. This launches a web page in a full functional Internet Explorer 11 session, with the features and capabilities of that browser. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/internet-explorer-mode-now-works-in-microsoft-edge-dev-builds/
New Windows 10 Zero-Day Bug Emerges From Bypassing Patched Flaw

Demo exploit code and details are now available about a new zero-day vulnerability in Windows 10 that allows elevating the privileges of a normal user to those of an administrator. An attacker can use it to install programs, view, change or delete data. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-windows-10-zero-day-bug-emerges-from-bypassing-patched-flaw/
Google Chrome to Limit Referer Header Size to Block Attacks

In order to prevent attacks such as cache probing, Google Chrome will begin to limit the HTTP Referer header to 4KiB in size. Other browsers such as Microsoft Edge and Mozilla Firefox have indicated that they will adopt this change as well. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-chrome-to-limit-referer-header-size-to-block-attacks/
Man Gets 51 Months in Prison for $10M BEC Fraud, Romance Scam

Muftau Adamu was sentenced today to 51 months in prison β€” 4 years and three months β€” for stealing more than $10 million through romance scams and business email compromise (BEC) fraud schemes aided by four other co-conspirators, between 2014 and 2018. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/man-gets-51-months-in-prison-for-10m-bec-fraud-romance-scam/
Google Search Ads Infiltrated Again by Tech Support Scams

If you are planning on doing any shopping over the weekend, you may want to be careful when doing searches in Google.  This is because scammers have infiltrated Google's ad network to redirect users to tech support scams when they click on popular search terms such as Lowes and PayPal. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-search-ads-infiltrated-again-by-tech-support-scams/
Nine Major VPNs Could Get Blocked by Russia in 30 Days

Nine VPN providers could get banned in Russia within 30 days if they fail to enforce the country's list of banned websites by connecting their systems to the Russian State Information System (FGIS) to automatically block their users' access to blacklisted websites. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/nine-major-vpns-could-get-blocked-by-russia-in-30-days/
The Week in Ransomware - June 7th 2019 - GandCrab Retires

While there have been quite a few variants of existing ransomwar released this week, by far the biggest news is the retirement of the GandCrab ransomware and the continuing struggles of Baltimore and their RobbinHood infection. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/the-week-in-ransomware-june-7th-2019-gandcrab-retires/
Quest, LabCorp, AMCA Sued For Breach Impacting Over 19 Million

Multiple class action lawsuits have been filed against Quest Diagnostics Incorporated and Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (LabCorp) since they disclosed that personal information of over 19 million of their customers was exposed in a data breach. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/quest-labcorp-amca-sued-for-breach-impacting-over-19-million/
Google Chrome 75 Has a Working Tab Hover Card Feature

If you are like me and lose track of the dozens of tabs you have open at the same time in Google Chrome, you will be happy to know that a working implementation of the browser 's Tab Hover Tab feature is available as an experimental flag. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/google-chrome-75-has-a-working-tab-hover-card-feature/