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A week in security (March 21 – 27)

March 28, 2022 admin a week in security, avoslocker, elden ring, esports, Facebook, hp printer vulnerability, lapsus$, microsoft exchange server, Okta, phishing, protestware, ransomware, rootkit, White House

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2022 10:17:58 +0000

The most important and interesting security stories from the last seven days.

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Anti-war open-source software developer targets Russians and Belarussians with “protestware”

March 24, 2022 admin caddywiper, colors, cve-2022-23812, disinformation, foss, free and open source software, hermeticwiper, isaacwiper, national coordination center for computer incidents, nccci, node-ipc, Open Source, peacenotwar, protestware, russia-ukraine, Security world, snyk, with-love-from-america.txt

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2022 00:07:26 +0000

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has brought to life protestware. It’s also beginning to ruin the open-source developer community.

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Pro-Ukraine ‘Protestware’ Pushes Antiwar Ads, Geo-Targeted Malware

March 17, 2022 admin alex holden, GitHub, Hold Security, protestware, russia's war on ukraine, The Coming Storm

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2022 22:33:21 +0000

Researchers are tracking a number of open-source “protestware” projects on GitHub that have recently altered their code to display “Stand with Ukraine” messages for users, or basic facts about the carnage in Ukraine. The group also is tracking several code packages that were recently modified to erase files on computers that appear to be coming from Russian or Belarusian Internet addresses.