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Unemployed Americans offered ‘remote jobs’ as money mules

Cybercriminals are exploiting the increasing number of layoffs during the current pandemic to recruit new money mules which can later be used to help them launder money gained from illicit activities. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/unemployed-americans-offered-remote-jobs-as-money-mules/
Ruhr University Bochum shuts down main servers after cyberattack

The Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), Ruhr-Universität Bochum in German, announced today that it was forced to shut down large parts of its central IT infrastructure, also including the backup systems, due to a cyberattack that took place overnight, between May 6 and May 7. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ruhr-university-bochum-shuts-down-main-servers-after-cyberattack/
Shiny Hunters hackers try to sell a host of user records from breaches

Three more high-profile databases are being offered for sale on a hacker forum by the same group claiming the Tokopedia and Unacademy breaches, and the more recently reported theft of Microsoft's private GitHub repositories. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/shiny-hunters-hackers-try-to-sell-a-host-of-user-records-from-breaches/
Firefox 76.0.1 released to fix broken Amazon extension, crashes

Mozilla has released Firefox 76.0.1 to resolve bugs that caused the Amazon Assistant browser extension to no longer function properly and to fix a browser crashes on Windows 7 32-bit systems with Nvidia graphics cards. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/firefox-7601-released-to-fix-broken-amazon-extension-crashes/
ChatBooks discloses data breach after data sold on dark web

ChatBooks photo print service has informed its customers that user information was stolen from their systems following a cyber attack. Data consisting of 15 million user records is now being offered for sale on the dark web [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/chatbooks-discloses-data-breach-after-data-sold-on-dark-web/
Windows 10: Limiting the bandwidth used by Windows Update

When installing new updates via Windows Update or the Microsoft Store, Windows 10 can consume all of the available Internet bandwidth. A Windows 10 feature can allow you to specify how much Internet bandwidth these update processes can use so that it does not affect other programs. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-10-limiting-the-bandwidth-used-by-windows-update/