Emotet, one of the most active and dangerous botnets, has been taken down by international authorities, in an operation coordinated by Europol and Eurojust.

Manufacturing regularly appears as one of the industries most under threat on the global stage. Recently, several firms including a well-known crane and lifting manufacturer were compromised in targeted attacks.

Cybercriminals shifted away from stealing individual consumers’ information in 2020 to focus on bigger, more profitable attacks on businesses, as per a report from the Identity Theft Resource Center.

Researchers from Synacktiv discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the source code shared by the projects that were due to a lack of user input sanitization, a technical write-up reads.

The issue affects Windows 7 through 10. Microsoft’s most recent effort to address the issue (CVE-2020-16902) was in October. A bypass, complete with PoC exploit code emerged in late December 2020.

The domain hijacking incident appears to have followed the age-old path of an attacker pouncing on a compromised account and swiping the domain rather than a simple expiration.

Libgcrypt 1.9.0, the newest version of a cryptographic library integrated in the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) free encryption software, has a “severe” security vulnerability, warned Werner Koch.

With the release of iOS 14 last fall, Apple has added a new security system to iPhones and iPads to protect users against attacks carried out via the iMessage instant messaging client.

Discovered by researchers at WebARX, the recently addressed issues are caused by the lack of authorization on most AJAX methods, and impact all Popup Builder versions up to 3.71.

Tanium announced Thursday that it sold $150 million in common stock to the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, Canada’s largest pension plan and an active investor in late-stage technology companies.