Microsoft releases June 2020 security patches for 129 vulnerabilities

Microsoft released its June 2020 security updates, which patch a total of 129 new vulnerabilities affecting various versions of Windows operating systems and related products. This is the third Patch Tuesday update since the start of the global Covid-19 outbreak, putting extra pressure on security groups. These 129 vulnerabilities include 11 critical vulnerabilities, all of which lead to remote code execution attacks, and 118 critical vulnerabilities, most of which lead to privilege escalation and spoofing attacks. Fortunately, it appears that attackers did not exploit any of the zero-day vulnerabilities, and…

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Patch for zero-day vulnerability available on Samsung smartphones

With the release of the May 2020 security updates for its Android smartphones, Samsung also patched a critical vulnerability that has affected all of its devices since 2014. In addition to the Android-May 2020 security bulletin patches, the mobile phone maker has patched a total of 19 vulnerabilities in its smartphones. The most important of these vulnerabilities are two critical bugs in the bootloader security system and Quram library with qmg decoding. The first vulnerability is a stack-based buffer overflow that could allow secure boot to be bypassed and lead…

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A campaign in the form of COVID-19 targets SCADA departments with data-stealing malware

A new malware campaign has been discovered that uses coronavirus-themed decoys to hit Azerbaijan’s government and energy sectors with remote access trojans (RATs) capable of extracting sensitive documents, compressing keys, passwords and even webcam images. he does.Targeted attacks use Microsoft Word documents as distributors to deploy a Python-based RAT called PoetRAT.Cisco Thales stated that this RAT has all the standard features of this type of malware and takes full control of the affected system.According to the researchers, this malware specifically targets monitoring control and data collection systems in the energy…

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Google reports seeing millions of malicious emails related to the corona virus every day

Over the past week, Google has announced the daily observation of more than 18 million phishing emails containing malware related to the Corona virus (COVID-19). Additionally, the internet giant has seen more than 240 million spam messages related to COVID-19 every day. According to reports, the company blocks 100 million phishing emails daily. Last week, Microsoft also reported seeing about 60,000 phishing emails related to COVID-19 every day, but the company said that these emails accounted for less than 2 percent of all phishing emails. Recently, cybercriminals have taken advantage…

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