Security News for MSPs

Microsoft released an out-of-band update for Windows 10 to patch a couple of high-severity vulnerabilities affecting the Windows Codecs Library that would allow attackers to execute arbitrary code. Windows 10 users are used to getting major updates during Patch Tuesdays, which comes once a month. The current cycle is scheduled to land on July 14,

U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner, sentenced 50-year-old Turhan Lemont Armstrong to more than 21 years in federal prison yesterday for running a $3.3 million credit card, loan and real estate fraud scheme. According to authorities, the Los Angelas-area local used stolen identities and Social Security numbers, primarily those of children, to obtain credit cards,

A US Senate panel Thursday approved legislation aimed at combatting online child exploitation as civil liberties activists warned the measure could lead to an array of constitutional and privacy problems. read more

Recent fires and explosions at important Iranian facilities may have been caused deliberately as part of an operation that involved cyberattacks, according to reports. read more

Remote code execution and information disclosure vulnerabilities addressed in Apache Guacamole can be highly useful to threat actors targeting enterprises, Check Point security researchers warn. read more

Recent samples of the Snake ransomware were observed isolating the infected systems to ensure that nothing interferes with the file encryption process, security researchers warn. read more

Bad actors are targeting unsecured MongoDB servers, wiping their database and leaving ransom notes outlining threats to leak the stolen information and report owners for GDPR violations. According to Victor Gevers, the chairman of the international non-profit organizations GDI Foundation, hackers are actively scanning the Internet for unsecured and vulnerable MongoDB servers. More than 22,000