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LibreOffice Releases Software Update to Patch 3 New Vulnerabilities LibreOffice-1000x600

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LibreOffice Releases Software Update to Patch 3 New Vulnerabilities

FHN July 28, 2022

The team behind LibreOffice has released security updates to fix three security flaws in the productivity software,...

Malicious IIS Extensions Gaining Popularity Among Cyber Criminals for Persistent Access image-security-stack

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Malicious IIS Extensions Gaining Popularity Among Cyber Criminals for Persistent Access

FHN July 28, 2022

Risk actors are significantly abusing Internet Details Services (IIS) extensions to backdoor servers as a means of...

Experts Find Similarities Between New LockBit 3.0 and BlackMatter Ransomware We-Want-You-Win-the-War-on-Ransomware-Today

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Experts Find Similarities Between New LockBit 3.0 and BlackMatter Ransomware

FHN July 27, 2022

Cybersecurity researchers have reiterated similarities involving the hottest iteration of the LockBit ransomware and BlackMatter, a rebranded...

Windows 11 now blocks RDP brute-force attacks by default uPALkW3UzvgE6FhMy3nCzD

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Windows 11 now blocks RDP brute-force attacks by default

FHN July 26, 2022

Recent Windows 11 builds come with the Account Lockout Policy policy enabled by default which will automatically...

Candiru Spyware Caught Exploiting Google Chrome Zero-Day to Target Journalists chrome-extensions

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Candiru Spyware Caught Exploiting Google Chrome Zero-Day to Target Journalists

FHN July 26, 2022

An Israeli spyware outfit turned the actively exploited, but now patched, Google Chrome zero-day issue into a...