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New Nest Video Extortion Scam Plays Out Like a Spy Game

A new sextortion scam that breaks the typical mold has been detected at the beginning of the year. Fraudsters preying on the insecurity of connected devices used footage from Nest cameras, and led victims through a convoluted path of email accounts and web sites before making their ransom price known. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-nest-video-extortion-scam-plays-out-like-a-spy-game/
Citrix Patches CVE-2019-19781 Flaw in Citrix ADC 11.1 and 12.0

Citrix released permanent fixes for the actively exploited CVE-2019-19781 vulnerability impacting Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC), Citrix Gateway, and Citrix SD-WAN WANOP appliances and allowing unauthenticated attackers to perform arbitrary code execution. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/citrix-patches-cve-2019-19781-flaw-in-citrix-adc-111-and-120/
Mitsubishi Electric Warns of Data Leak After Security Breach

Mitsubishi Electric, a leading global company in the manufacture and sales of electrical and electronic products, disclosed a security breach that might have caused the leak of personal and confidential corporate information. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/mitsubishi-electric-warns-of-data-leak-after-security-breach/
FTCode Ransomware Now Steals Saved Login Credentials

​​​​​​​FTCode ransomware victims now have one more thing to worry about with the malware having been upgraded to also steal saved user credentials from email clients and web browsers. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ftcode-ransomware-now-steals-saved-login-credentials/
US Retailer Hanna Andersson Hacked to Steal Credit Cards

US children's apparel maker and online retailer Hanna Andersson disclosed that its online purchasing platform was hacked and malicious code was deployed to steal customers' payment info for almost two months. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-retailer-hanna-andersson-hacked-to-steal-credit-cards/
Microsoft Tests Office 'Ads' in Windows 10 Wordpad

Microsoft is testing promotions for the free Office web apps being displayed directly in the menu bar for the Windows 10 Wordpad application. As you can imagine, the reaction to this news has been mixed, with some not thinking it's a big deal and others not happy with this approach. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-tests-office-ads-in-windows-10-wordpad/
Actively Exploited IE 11 Zero-Day Bug Gets Temporary Patch

A micropatch implementing Microsoft's workaround for the actively exploited zero-day remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability impacting Internet Explorer is now available via the 0patch platform until an official fix will be released. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/actively-exploited-ie-11-zero-day-bug-gets-temporary-patch/
This Citibank Phishing Scam Could Trick Many People

A new Citibank phishing scam is underway that utilizes a convincing domain name, TLS certs, and even requests OTP codes that could easily cause people to believe they are submitting their personal information on a legitimate page. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/this-citibank-phishing-scam-could-trick-many-people/