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Live Coronavirus Map Used to Spread Malware

March 17, 2020 admin AZORult, coronavirus malware, coronavirus map, covid-19 malware, johns hopkins university, Latest Warnings, The Coming Storm

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 15:53:26 +0000

Cybercriminals constantly latch on to news items that captivate the public’s attention, but usually they do so by sensationalizing the topic or spreading misinformation about it. Recently, however, cybercrooks have started disseminating real-time, accurate information about global infection rates tied to the Coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic in a bid to infect computers with malicious software.

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Patch Tuesday, January 2020 Edition

January 14, 2020 admin cve-2020-0601, johns hopkins university, Kenneth White, matthew green, MongoDB, Qualys, Time to Patch, Windows 10

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 02:31:50 +0000

Microsoft today released updates to plug 50 security holes in various flavors of Windows and related software. The patch batch includes a fix for a flaw in Windows 10 and server equivalents of this operating system that prompted an unprecedented public warning from the U.S. National Security Agency. This month also marks the end of mainstream support for Windows 7, a still broadly-used operating system that will no longer be supplied with security updates.