Windows 11 KB5015882 update fixes bugs causing File Explorer to freeze July 21, 2022 Microsoft has released the optional KB5015882 Preview cumulative update for Windows 11 with 20 fixes or improvements, including new Focus
Chrome zero-day used to infect journalists with Candiru spyware July 21, 2022 The Israeli spyware vendor Candiru was found using a zero-day vulnerability in Google Chrome to spy on journalists and other
Ex-Coinbase manager charged in first crypto insider-trading case July 21, 2022 The U.S. Department of Justice has charged a former Coinbase manager and two co-conspirators with wire fraud conspiracy and scheme
Windows 11 now blocks RDP brute-force attacks by default July 21, 2022 Recent Windows 11 builds come with the Account Lockout Policy policy enabled by default which will automatically lock user accounts
How Conti ransomware hacked and encrypted the Costa Rican government July 21, 2022 Details have emerged on how the Conti ransomware gang breached the Costa Rican government, showing the attack’s precision and the
Google blocks site of largest computing society for being ‘harmful’ July 21, 2022 Google Search and Drive are erroneously flagging links to Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) research papers and websites as malware. BleepingComputer
New Redeemer ransomware version promoted on hacker forums July 21, 2022 A threat actor is promoting a new version of their free-to-use ‘Redeemer’ ransomware builder on hacker forums, offering unskilled threat
Microsoft resumes default blocking of Office macros after updating docs July 21, 2022 Microsoft announced today that it resumed the rollout of VBA macro auto-blocking in downloaded Office documents after temporarily rolling it back
Google boosts Android privacy with support for DNS-over-HTTP/3 July 21, 2022 Google has added support for the DNS-over-HTTP/3 (DoH3) protocol on Android 11 and later to increase the privacy of DNS
Neopets data breach exposes personal data of 69 million members July 21, 2022 Virtual pet website Neopets has suffered a data breach leading to the theft of source code and a database containing