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Android Trojan Steals Your Money to Fund International SMS Attacks

An Android banking Trojan dubbed Faketoken has recently been observed by security researchers while draining its victims' accounts to fuel offensive mass text campaigns targeting mobile devices from all over the world. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/android-trojan-steals-your-money-to-fund-international-sms-attacks/
BEC Scammers Use Aging Report Phishing to Find New Targets

A group tracked as Ancient Tortoise is targeting accounts receivable specialists tricking them into sending over aging reports and thus collecting info on customers they can scam in later attack stages. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/bec-scammers-use-aging-report-phishing-to-find-new-targets/
CISA Releases Test Tool for Citrix ADC CVE-2019-19781 Vulnerability

DHS CISA released a public domain tool designed to help security staff to test if their organizations are vulnerable to ongoing attacks that might target the CVE-2019-19781 security flaw impacting the Citrix Application Delivery Controller (NetScaler ADC) and Citrix Gateway (NetScaler Gateway) products. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-releases-test-tool-for-citrix-adc-cve-2019-19781-vulnerability/
Windows 7 Reaches End of Life Tomorrow, What You Need to Know

It's the end of an era: Windows 7 will reach end of support tomorrow, on January 14, a decade after its initial release, with Microsoft to no longer provide users with software updates and security updates or fixes. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-7-reaches-end-of-life-tomorrow-what-you-need-to-know/
Adobe Releases Their January 2020 Security Updates

Adobe has released its monthly security updates that fix vulnerabilities in Adobe Experience Manager and Adobe Illustrator CC. All users are advised to install the applicable updates as soon as possible to resolve these vulnerabilities. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/adobe-releases-their-january-2020-security-updates/
Critical WordPress Plugin Bug Allows Admin Logins Without Password

A critical authentication bypass vulnerability allows anyone to log in as an administrator user on WordPress sites running an affected version of the InfiniteWP Client because of logical mistakes in the code. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/critical-wordpress-plugin-bug-allows-admin-logins-without-password/
Windows 7 Gets Final Monthly Rollup Update Before End Of Life

Windows 7 has just received its last set of security updates. After today, Windows 7 won't receive any security or non-security updates from Microsoft, and it is now considered an unsupported operating system. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-7-gets-final-monthly-rollup-update-before-end-of-life/
Windows Terminal Adds Retro CRT Effects and Console Search

Microsoft released Windows Terminal Preview v.08 today and with it comes useful improvements that include a console search feature, tab sizing, and a new retro option that makes consoles look like an old CRT. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-terminal-adds-retro-crt-effects-and-console-search/
Intel Patches High Severity Flaw in VTune Performance Profiler

Intel patched six security vulnerabilities during the January 2020 Patch Tuesday, including a high severity vulnerability in VTune and a bug affecting the Intel Processor Graphics drivers for Windows and Linux. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/intel-patches-high-severity-flaw-in-vtune-performance-profiler/
Google Chrome Aims to Make Browser User-Agents Obsolete

To enhance the privacy of its users and reduce the complexity of updating User-Agent strings, Google Chrome plans to move to a new system that web sites can use to identify information about their visitors. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-chrome-aims-to-make-browser-user-agents-obsolete/