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My computer was infected my a ransomware called Pahd. After remove the virus, I notice a folder in the C: drive, another Windows folder but with a space in the end. Inside is all normal Windows folder but it all unavailable. If I delete it, it just say "Could no find this item". I think this is...

Hello. My dad gave me his laptop just to check an issue. His Laptop when first given to me check was constantly running high CPU when checking task manager with it running 100% and I couldn't identify what was making it do this. So a quick restart (off and back on) the laptop was doing the same...

I've been having this issue for a while now. Every time I restart my laptop, I get a seemingly empty command window that flashes and then goes away. I managed to get it to stop flashing somehow, and was able to get a better look at it, it had netsh.exe in the command along with some other stuff...

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The Event Viewer details state: "Custom dynamic link libraries are being loaded for every application. The system administrator should review the list of libraries to ensure they are related to trusted applications. Please visit Link Removed for more information."\ and the XML states: <Event...

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Original release date: May 28, 2021 Summary The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are responding to a spearphishing campaign targeting government organizations, intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), and non-governmental...

Best way I know is to make regular backups but store them offline . Got to check your PC is not carrying any malware before backing up for obvious reasons . I am a home user so use a portable SSD . I do not own a NAS . In retrospect I am rather glad I do not need one :rolleyes: NAS are said to...

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This issue has been going on now for some time even before I upgraded to the latest windows update. than its stopped but continued. The issue, I have this system monitor to shut off in 10 minutes. This happens and on time. but than the monitor pops back on with no one near it and stays on 1o...

Original release date: May 11, 2021 Summary This Advisory uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK®) framework, Version 9. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise for all referenced threat actor tactics and techniques. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security...

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Original release date: April 26, 2021 Summary The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) assess Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) cyber actors—also known as Advanced Persistent Threat 29...

:cool: Sounds like a great idea !

Original release date: April 20, 2021 Summary The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is aware of compromises affecting U.S. government agencies, critical infrastructure entities, and other private sector organizations by a cyber threat actor—or actors—beginning in June 2020...

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See screen snip below. Can anyone tell me if this is a phishing email or a legitimate email from Microsoft? Thanks.

Hello, I am a help desk tech with 25 yrs experience so pretty skilled I would say. I am having a sudden issue with my personal laptop. It has recently as in within the past week started taking an unusually long time to get Windows to start from a cold boot. I wind up sitting for approximately...

Original release date: March 18, 2021 Summary This Alert announces the CISA Hunt and Incident Response Program (CHIRP) tool. CHIRP is a forensics collection tool that CISA developed to help network defenders find indicators of compromise (IOCs) associated with activity detailed in the following...