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US govt contractor ABB confirms ransomware attack, data theft

Swiss tech multinational and U.S. government contractor ABB has confirmed that some of its systems were impacted by a ransomware attack, previously described by the company as "an IT security incident." [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-govt-contractor-abb-confirms-ransomware-attack-data-theft/
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Microsoft Defender Antivirus gets ‘performance mode’ for Dev Drives

Microsoft has introduced a new Microsoft Defender capability named "performance mode" for developers on Windows 11, tuned to reduce the impact of antivirus scans when analyzing files stored on Dev Drives. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-defender-antivirus-gets-performance-mode-for-dev-drives/
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Hot Pixels attack checks CPU temp, power changes to steal data

A team of researchers at Georgia Tech, the University of Michigan, and Ruhr University Bochum have developed a novel attack called "Hot Pixels," which can retrieve pixels from the content displayed in the target's browser and infer the navigation history. [...]
Hot Pixels attack checks CPU temp, power changes to steal data

A team of researchers at Georgia Tech, the University of Michigan, and Ruhr University Bochum have developed a novel attack called "Hot Pixels," which can retrieve pixels from the content displayed in the target's browser and infer the navigation history. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hot-pixels-attack-checks-cpu-temp-power-changes-to-steal-data/
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QBot malware abuses Windows WordPad EXE to infect devices

The QBot malware operation has started to abuse a DLL hijacking flaw in the Windows 10 WordPad program to infect computers, using the legitimate program to evade detection by security software. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/qbot-malware-abuses-windows-wordpad-exe-to-infect-devices/
PyPI announces mandatory use of 2FA for all software publishers

The Python Package Index (PyPI) has announced that it will require every account that manages a project on the platform to have two-factor authentication (2FA) turned on by the end of the year. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/pypi-announces-mandatory-use-of-2fa-for-all-software-publishers/