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Fraudster Admits Role In Theft of Millions From Thousands of Army Members

Fredrick Brown, a former U.S. Army civilian medical records administrator, admitted on Tuesday to taking part in a fraud scheme that victimized thousands and allowed the fraudsters to steal millions mostly from elderly and disabled veterans. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fraudster-admits-role-in-theft-of-millions-from-thousands-of-army-members/
New Gafgyt Variant Recruits Routers to DDoS Servers for Valve Games

A new version of Gafgyt botnet malware has been enlisting routers from Zyxel and Huawei, as well as devices with Realtek RTL81xx chipset, using them for denial-of-service (DoS) attacks against servers running the Valve Source engine. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-gafgyt-variant-recruits-routers-to-ddos-servers-for-valve-games/
QSnatch Malware Infects Thousands of NAS Devices, Steals Credentials

Thousands of QNAP NAS devices are getting infected with a malware dubbed QSnatch that injects into their firmware and proceeds to steal credentials and load malicious code retrieved from its command and control (C2) servers. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/qsnatch-malware-infects-thousands-of-nas-devices-steals-credentials/
Active Duty U.S. Military Now Gets Free Credit Monitoring

The FTC announced that starting October 31 active-duty U.S. Army service members and National Guard members will get free credit monitoring from the Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion nationwide​​​​​ credit reporting agencies. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/active-duty-us-military-now-gets-free-credit-monitoring/
Emotet Trojan Brings a Malware Scare with Halloween Emails

The Emotet Trojan is celebrating Halloween by pushing out new spam templates that want to invite you to a neighborhood party. While these emails promise you a treat, in reality Emotet is tricking you into installing an infection. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/emotet-trojan-brings-a-malware-scare-with-halloween-emails/
Google Chrome is Getting the 'Close other tabs' Option Back

Google has decided to add the "Close other tabs" right-click context menu option back to Google Chrome. While it is not known why they decided to add it back, I have sorely missed this feature and it a welcome change. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-chrome-is-getting-the-close-other-tabs-option-back/