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Hacked Instagram Account of Robert Downey Jr. Pushes iPhone Giveway

You can add Robert Downey Jr. to the list of celebrities whose social media accounts got hacked this week. The actor's Instagram account was hijacked by unknown individuals that tried to capitalize on the move by posting fake giveaways for Apple products. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hacked-instagram-account-of-robert-downey-jr-pushes-iphone-giveway/
Wikipedia DDoS Attacks Prompt NCSC to Remind of DoS Mitigation

UK's National Cyber Security Centre urges organizations worried about Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks to implement mitigation measures following a worldwide Wikipedia outage caused by Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/wikipedia-ddos-attacks-prompt-ncsc-to-remind-of-dos-mitigation/
Telegram Fixes Privacy Bug Caused by Improperly Deleted Messages

The Telegram encrypted messaging app released version 5.11 of their mobile client to fix a serious privacy bug that could allow a recipient to view images or files even after they were deleted by the sender. As this app has over 100 million downloads from the Google Play Store alone, this could be a major privacy violation for many u [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/telegram-fixes-privacy-bug-caused-by-improperly-deleted-messages/
Business Email Compromise Is a $26 Billion Scam Says the FBI

FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) says that Business Email Compromise scams are continuing to grow every year, with a 100% increase in the identified global exposed losses between May 2018 and July 2019. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/business-email-compromise-is-a-26-billion-scam-says-the-fbi/
Adobe Releases Security Updates for Flash Player and Application Manager

Adobe has published their monthly Patch Tuesday updates for the month of September 2019 that resolves three security vulnerabilities in two programs. All the vulnerabilities fixed today are for arbitrary code execution that could allow an attacker to execute commands on a vulnerable machine. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/adobe-releases-security-updates-for-flash-player-and-application-manager/
Microsoft Releases the September 2019 Security Updates for Office

Microsoft released the September 2019 Microsoft Office security updates, bundling a total of 19 security updates and five cumulative updates across seven different products, five of them patching remote code execution flaws. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-releases-the-september-2019-security-updates-for-office/
Windows 10 KB4515384 and KB4512578 Released With Fixes

Microsoft is rolling out a new cumulative update to devices with Windows 10 May 2019 Update (version 1903), Windows 10 October 2018 Update (version 1809), and other supported versions with multiple fixes and improvements. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-10-kb4515384-and-kb4512578-released-with-fixes/
LokiBot Info-Stealer Used in Spear Phishing Attack on US Company

Security researchers discovered a malspam campaign distributing LokiBot information stealer payloads using phishing messages targeting the employees of a large U.S. manufacturing company. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lokibot-info-stealer-used-in-spear-phishing-attack-on-us-company/
Google Unveils DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) Plan, Mozilla's Faces Criticism

Google has announced that they would soon be performing a trial of utilizing DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) in the Google Chrome browser. This experiment will be conducted in Chrome 78 and will attempt to upgrade a user's DNS server to a corresponding DoH server, and if available, use that for DNS resolution. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/google-unveils-dns-over-https-doh-plan-mozillas-faces-criticism/