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AA20-107A: Continued Threat Actor Exploitation Post Pulse Secure VPN Patching
Original release date: April 16, 2020 Summary Note: This Activity Alert uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK®) framework. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise framework for all referenced threat actor techniques and mitigations. This Alert provides an update...- News
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AA20-106A: Guidance on the North Korean Cyber Threat
Original release date: April 14, 2020 | Last revised: April 15, 2020 Summary The U.S. Departments of State, the Treasury, and Homeland Security, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are issuing this advisory as a comprehensive resource on the North Korean cyber threat for the international...- News
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AA20-099A: COVID-19 Exploited by Malicious Cyber Actors
Original release date: April 8, 2020 Summary This is a joint alert from the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). This alert provides information on...- News
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Windows 10 Recently removed a trojan from win10
i recently found out that my laptop has a trojan , which came with a software i install 6 to 7 days ago . windows defender found out it but was unable to remove it.Every time it reboot it came back.I checked in task manager for startup program , there was a strang prgm csrss.exe. So. it was a...- Hemant000
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Windows 10 Trojan w32/Tiggre!plock locked up temp files
Hi, Sorry I cant seem to find a thread regarding malware.Just needed to get the prob solved as i have work files and software on my laptop,so am posting here intead.thank you Windows defender picked up the trojan named w32/Tiggre!plock,after i scanned the laptop as it was running extremely...- windozUser2021
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AA20-073A: Enterprise VPN Security
Original release date: March 13, 2020 Summary As organizations prepare for possible impacts of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), many may consider alternate workplace options for their employees. Remote work options—or telework—require an enterprise virtual private network (VPN) solution to...- News
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Windows 7 Targeted Malware Increased 125%
If you weren't already aware, Windows 7 reached end of life this year on January 14th 2020. End of life or EOL means the operating system vendor, in this case Microsoft, will no longer develop updates to address security issues within the software. Partly due to the fact that Windows 7 has...- Neemobeer
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Windows 7 Windows update
Arrived today - malicious software tool - kb890830. How come? You are supposed to trust this being MS and it just goes ahead and downloads/installs. Are they still supporting Seven??? Thanks.- Fenway16
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Windows 10 Program Manager
I thought Program Manager was in Windows 3 Why is it in Win 10? On shutdown, occasionally the pc hangs with a message saying Program Manager is still running At times it will freeze indefinitely After running several malware and virus scanners the system reports no abnormalities Can I safely...- Skynotempty
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Windows 10 I upgraded (downgrade in actuality) from Windows 7 to 10 when it was free. Then got back to Windows 7. Can I now upgrade back to 10 for free?
I am sooo pi*sed that I'm being forced to "downgrade" to Windows 10. I tried it when it was free and really gave it a chance, but I couldn't stand it, so I rolled back to 7. It was like I could breathe again. Now that they have ended support for 7 and fearing malwares and viruses, I'm forced to...- reedadam
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AA20-014A: Critical Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows Operating Systems
Original release date: January 14, 2020 Summary New vulnerabilities are continually emerging, but the best defense against attackers exploiting patched vulnerabilities is simple: keep software up to date. Timely patching is one of the most efficient and cost-effective steps an organization can...- News
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AA20-010A: Continued Exploitation of Pulse Secure VPN Vulnerability
Original release date: January 10, 2020 Summary Unpatched Pulse Secure VPN servers continue to be an attractive target for malicious actors. Affected organizations that have not applied the software patch to fix a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, known as CVE-2019-11510, can become...- News
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AA20-006A: Potential for Iranian Cyber Response to U.S. Military Strike in Baghdad
Original release date: January 6, 2020 Summary The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is sharing the following information with the cybersecurity community as a primer for assisting in the protection of our Nation’s critical infrastructure in light of the current tensions...- News
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Windows 10 Laptop Platform Role is Mobile in System Information?
I just saw in System Information that my Desktop Laptop Platform Role is Mobile. Turned on the other two laptops in the home network and they also are mobile. This is a newly reset computer with no connection with a mobile phone whatsoever. To confirm my suspicions, in autoruns I get multiple...- mapletree
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- android device manager driver removal drivers intel laptop malware mobile multi monitor powershell realtek samsung security suspicious system information transient trojan virustotal windows 10
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Windows 7 Exposing a virgin 2009 win 7 HDD to the internet in 2020 for updates Questions
I just returned my 2009 win7 Toshiba Laptop HDD back to its factory defaults from the OEM hidden restore partition. With the final security patches for win7 due out next month in January 2020, I want to have a clean fresh out-of-box 2020 win7 install with all the service packs and security...- Zobeewa
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A Breakdown of the Emotet Malware (Stage 1)
While working the on-call rotation at work last week I received a reported phishing email. Like all the other emails I do an analysis to determine if it's a false positive or truly a phishing email. As it turns out this email was indeed a phishing email that tried to convince a user to click...- Neemobeer
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AA19-339A: Dridex Malware
Original release date: December 5, 2019 Summary This Alert is the result of recent collaboration between the Department of the Treasury Financial Sector Cyber Information Group (CIG) and the Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) to identify and share...- News
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Customer Guidance for the Dopplepaymer Ransomware
Microsoft has been investigating recent attacks by malicious actors using the Dopplepaymer ransomware. There is misleading information circulating about Microsoft Teams, along with references to RDP (BlueKeep), as ways in which this malware spreads. Our security research teams have investigated...- News
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Avast Code Injection Vulnerability
If you're using Avast and are on a version below 19.8 you probably should update. Avast Vulnerability Potentially Allows DLL Hijacking- Neemobeer
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Discord Altering Malware
Interesting info stealing malware that alters Discord. Discord Turned Into an Info-Stealing Backdoor by New Malware- Neemobeer
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