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US Carriers Promise Again to Stop Selling Customer Location Data

Selling customers' location data has always been a lucrative practice for carriers, seeing that every year since at least 2013 they've been caught spreading it around to any company willing to pay. Maybe something will change in 2019. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-carriers-promise-again-to-stop-selling-customer-location-data/
Del Rio City Hall Forced to Use Paper After Ransomware Attack

The City Hall of Del Rio, Texas was hit by a ransomware attack on the morning of January 10, which led to dozens of computers on the network being turned off and disconnected from the Internet to contain and analyze the malware [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/del-rio-city-hall-forced-to-use-paper-after-ransomware-attack/
Fake Movie File Infects PC to Steal Cryptocurrency, Poison Google Results

A malicious Windows shortcut file posing as a movie via The Pirate Bay torrent tracker can trigger a chain of mischievous activities on your computer, like injecting content from the attacker into high-profile web sites such as Wikipedia, Google and Yandex Search or by stealing cryptocurrency. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-movie-file-infects-pc-to-steal-cryptocurrency-poison-google-results/
Ryuk Ransomware Partners with TrickBot to Gain Access to Infected Networks

Ryuk has historically been considered a a targeted ransomware where the actors scope out networks in order to gain access and install their ransomware. New research now indicates that the Ryuk actors may be using other malware as an Access-as-a-Service to gain access to networks. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ryuk-ransomware-partners-with-trickbot-to-gain-access-to-infected-networks/
The Week in Ransomware - January 11th 2019 - Access-as-a-Service

For the most part it has been a slow this week in terms of new ransomware variants being released. On the other hand, there has been quite a bit of interesting information that was released about Ryuk. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/the-week-in-ransomware-january-11th-2019-access-as-a-service/
Microsoft Releases KB4487345 Update to Fix Windows 7 Share Issues

Last week Microsoft released the January 2019 Patch Tuesday updates and included in the release were two updates that caused problems connecting to ntework shares on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. On January 11th, Microsoft has released a a stand-alone update that resolves this issue. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-releases-kb4487345-update-to-fix-windows-7-share-issues/
Mozilla to Disable Flash Plugin by Default in Firefox 69

Starting in Firefox 69, Mozilla will be disabling support for the Adobe Flash plugin by default. This is being done as part of the roadmap set forth by Mozilla on how they will be ultimately disable all support for Flash in Firefox. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/mozilla-to-disable-flash-plugin-by-default-in-firefox-69/
Windows 7 KMS Activation Issues Caused by Microsoft Mistake, Not an Update

On January 8th, 2019, Windows 7 machines that were activated through Key Management Service started receiving a "Windows is not genuine" error indicating that the license is not valid. It turns out this this problem was not related to a January Patch Tuesday update, but rather caused by a problem on Microsoft's activation server. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-7-kms-activation-issues-caused-by-microsoft-mistake-not-an-update/
Massachusetts Amends Law Protecting Consumers From Security Breaches

Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker signed a new law on January 10 that amends the state's data breach law removing the fees imposed by credit reporting agencies for security disclosures and freezes of consumer credit reports [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/massachusetts-amends-law-protecting-consumers-from-security-breaches/
First Windows 10 Build for Microsoft’s Foldable Devices Appears Online

BuildFeed, a site that keeps track of the latest Windows 10 and Window Insider builds, has found a new build that may indicate that Microsoft is internally testing builds for foldable Windows 10 devices. This new build has a version of 18313.1004 on Microsoft's servers and comes from the Windows 10 19H1 development. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/first-windows-10-build-for-microsoft-s-foldable-devices-appears-online/
Hope You're Using Protection as Love Letter MalSpam has Nasty Surprises

It is almost February and love is in the air, but that doesn't mean you should open every love letter you receive. A large malspam campaign has been discovered that uses romantic and endearing email subjects to trick recipients into getting infected with ransomware, miners, and more. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hope-youre-using-protection-as-love-letter-malspam-has-nasty-surprises/