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Two charged for hacking NBA, NFL players' social media accounts

The US Department of Justice charged two men for their involvement in the fraudulent takeover of email and social media accounts owned by multiple National Football League (NFL) and the National Basketball Association (NBA) athletes. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/two-charged-for-hacking-nba-nfl-players-social-media-accounts/
US govt warns of sanction risks for facilitating ransomware payments

The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today said that organizations that assist ransomware victims to make ransom payments are facing sanctions risks as their actions could violate OFAC regulations. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-govt-warns-of-sanction-risks-for-facilitating-ransomware-payments/
NVIDIA fixes high severity flaws in Windows display driver

NVIDIA has released security updates to address high severity vulnerabilities in the Windows GPU display driver that could lead to code execution, escalation of privileges, information disclosure, and denial of service. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/nvidia-fixes-high-severity-flaws-in-windows-display-driver/
Windows 10 KB4577063 update fixes Internet connectivity, WSL2 issues

​Microsoft released the Windows 10 2004 KB4577063 non-security preview cumulative update with fixes for Internet connectivity and Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) issues. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-10-kb4577063-update-fixes-internet-connectivity-wsl2-issues/
Top sites infiltrated with credit card skimmers and crypto miners

An investigation conducted into the top 10,000 Alexa sites by Palo Alto Networks reveals many of these popular websites are infected with cryptocurrency miners and credit card skimming scripts. 9d677006e13fc8d17c1f59b05bbb9047 [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/top-sites-infiltrated-with-credit-card-skimmers-and-crypto-miners/
Microsoft now provides Defender updates for Windows install images

Microsoft released a new tool designed to patch Windows 10 and Windows Server installation images with the latest Microsoft Defender updates to minimize the protection gap systems face until anti-malware definitions are updated. 9d677006e13fc8d17c1f59b05bbb9047 [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-now-provides-defender-updates-for-windows-install-images/