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Hacker Magazine Offers $10,000 for Trump's Tax Returns, Again!

Hacker magazine 2600 said today it would pay $10,000, possibly more, to anyone who provides it with Trump's tax returns. The magazine ran a similar pledge last year before the presidential election but without any success. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/government/hacker-magazine-offers-10-000-for-trumps-tax-returns-again/
Hackers Empty ATMs by Drilling One Small Hole

Hackers are using a combination of low and high-tech attacks to make ATMS spit out cash, according to Kaspersky researcher Igor Soumenkov, who presented this novel attack at this year's Security Analyst Summit, taking place in St. Maarten this week. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-empty-atms-by-drilling-one-small-hole/
Install Windows 10 Creators Update Starting Today With This Microsoft Tool

Microsoft will officially release Windows 10 Creators Update on April 11, the same day it will retire Windows Vista, but users unwilling to wait that long can install it starting today, April 5, using the Windows 10 Update Assistant. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/install-windows-10-creators-update-starting-today-with-this-microsoft-tool/
Crooks Founded Two ISPs to Hide Illegal TV Streaming Platform

A group of criminals went as far as to register and manage two Internet Service Providers in two different countries in order to manage an illegal TV streaming platform that offered IPTV (IP Television) service to customers all over the world. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/crooks-founded-two-isps-to-hide-illegal-tv-streaming-platform/
Ransomware Gang Made Over $100,000 by Exploiting Apache Struts Zero-Day

For more than a month, at least ten groups of attackers have been compromising systems running applications built with Apache Struts and installing backdoors, DDoS bots, cryptocurrency miners, or ransomware, depending if the machine is running Linux or Windows. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ransomware-gang-made-over-100-000-by-exploiting-apache-struts-zero-day/
New Password Protected Word Document SPAM Installing Urlsnif Keylogger

A large SPAM campaign is underway where victims receive an email that pretends to be a requested invoice and contains a password for a password protected encrypted Word document attachment. These password protected word documents contain embedded VBScript files that will download and install the Urlsnif keylogger. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-password-protected-word-document-spam-installing-urlsnif-keylogger/
ClearEnergy - The "In the Wild" SCADA Ransomware Attacks That Never Were

A mini-controversy broke out this week in the infosec community after cyber-security firm CRITIFENCE led journalists and other security experts to believe that they've detected in-the-wild attacks with a new ransomware called ClearEnergy, specialized in targeting ICS/SCADA industrial equipment. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/clearenergy-the-in-the-wild-scada-ransomware-attacks-that-never-were/