The Hacker News

JULY 20, 2024

Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, which is facing the heat for causing worldwide IT disruptions by pushing out a flawed update to Windows devices, is now warning that threat actors are exploiting the situation to distribute Remcos RAT to its customers in Latin America under the guise of a providing a hotfix. The attack chains involve distributing a ZIP archive file named "crowdstrike-hotfix.

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Bleeping Computer

JULY 20, 2024

Microsoft says the faulty CrowdStrike Falcon update, which caused widespread outages by crashing Windows systems worldwide, also resulted in Windows 365 Cloud PCs getting stuck in reboot loops, rendering them unusable. [.

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Security Affairs

JULY 20, 2024

CrowdStrike warns that threat actors are exploiting the recent IT outage caused by their faulty update to distribute Remcos RAT malware. CrowdStrike spotted threat actors attempting to benefit from the recent IT outage caused by the faulty update of the cybersecurity firm to distribute Remcos RAT malware. The threat actors attempted to distribute the Remcos RAT to the customers of the cybersecurity firm in Latin America under the guise of providing an emergency fix for the problem.

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Bleeping Computer

JULY 20, 2024

UK police have arrested a 17-year-old boy suspected of being involved in the 2023 MGM Resorts ransomware attack and a member of the Scattered Spider hacking collective. [.

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Security Affairs

JULY 20, 2024

CrowdStrike warns that threat actors are exploiting the recent IT outage caused by their faulty update to distribute Remcos RAT malware. CrowdStrike spotted threat actors attempting to benefit from the recent IT outage caused by the faulty update of the cybersecurity firm to distribute Remcos RAT malware. The threat actors attempted to distribute the Remcos RAT to the customers of the cybersecurity firm in Latin America under the guise of providing an emergency fix for the problem.

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Penetration Testing

JULY 20, 2024

Google has officially announced the termination of its URL-shortening service, goo.gl. The generation of new links ceased in March 2019, and as of August 25, 2025, all existing goo.gl links will stop working and... The post Google URL Shortener Ends Support: What You Need to Know Before August 2025 appeared first on Cybersecurity News.

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Penetration Testing

JULY 20, 2024

Security analysts at Sucuri have uncovered a novel attack technique targeting e-commerce websites, where cybercriminals abuse swap files to maintain persistent credit card skimmers. The incident involved a Magento site where a malicious script... The post Cybercriminals Exploit Swap Files: New E-commerce Skimming Tactic appeared first on Cybersecurity News.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 20, 2024

Recently, Canonical released security updates to address several vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Microsoft Azure Cloud systems in Ubuntu 16.04 ESM and Ubuntu 18.04 ESM. An attacker could possibly use these issues to cause a denial of service, expose sensitive information, or execute arbitrary code. Linux Kernel (Azure) Vulnerabilities These are the […] The post Several Linux Kernel Azure Vulnerabilities Fixed in Ubuntu appeared first on TuxCare.

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WIRED Threat Level

JULY 20, 2024

Plus: The FBI unlocks the Trump shooter’s phone, a security researcher gets legal threats for exposing hackable traffic lights, and more.

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