Lawrence Abrams is the creator and owner of BleepingComputer.com. Lawrence’s area of expertise includes security, malware research, ransomware, and computer forensics. Lawrence Abrams is also a co-author of the Winternals Defragmentation, Recovery, and Administration Field Guide and technical editor for Rootkits for Dummies.
A new Windows 10 utility called TaskbarGroups lets you group shortcuts on the taskbar so they can easily be launched without taking up a lot of space.
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Since the SolarWinds supply chain attack was disclosed last Sunday, there has been a whirlwind of news, technical details, and analysis released about the hack. Because the amount of information that was released in such a short time is definitely overwhelming, we have published this as a roundup of this week's SolarWinds news.
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The SolarWinds supply chain attack has dominated this week's cybersecurity news, but there was still plenty of ransomware news this week.
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Microsoft's December 2020 Windows 10 updates are conflicting with the Corsair Utility Engine software and causing the operating system to go into a BSOD crash loop.
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Google has disabled a feature that displays a warning when submitting insecure forms after receiving many complaints from users and website administrators.
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Microsoft has confirmed that they were hacked in the recent SolarWinds attacks but denied that their software was compromised in a supply-chain attack to infect customers.
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A threat actor is distributing fake Windows and Android installers for the Cyberpunk 2077 game that is installing a ransomware calling itself CoderWare.
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Malwarebytes is running a holiday deal where you can get 40% off Malwarebytes Premium and the Malwarebytes for Teams business product for a limited time.
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Microsoft, FireEye, and GoDaddy have collaborated to create a kill switch for the SolarWinds Sunburst backdoor that forces the malware to terminate itself.
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New malicious RubyGems packages have been discovered that are being used in a supply chain attack to steal cryptocurrency from unsuspecting users.
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Microsoft has released a new version of Microsoft Authenticator that now acts as a password manager for Android and iOS.
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Gmail is suffering its second outage in 24 hours, with users able to access their email but unable to send to other Gmail users or are experiencing unexpected behavior.
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Microsoft has announced today that Microsoft Defender will begin quarantining compromised SolarWind Orion binaries starting tomorrow morning.
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Google's global outage from yesterday was due to a bug that restricted storage space to the Identity Management System and caused the system to fail.
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The City of Independence, Missouri, suffered a ransomware attack last week that continues to disrupt the city's services.
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