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Mandiant tracks back operators, finds ties to China Emerging covert malware can target VMware environments to allow criminals to gain persistent administrative access to hypervisors, transfer files, and execute arbitrary commands on virtual machines, according to VMware and Mandiant, which discovered such a software nasty in the wild earlier this year.… READ MORE HERE…

Awoooogah – this is your one-year warning to switch over, enterprises Microsoft next month will start phasing out Client Access Rules (CARs) in Exchange Online – and will do away with this means for controlling access altogether within a year.… READ MORE HERE…

Beware what could be hiding in those LNK shortcuts A tool sold on the dark web that allows cybercriminals to build malicious shortcuts for delivering malware is being used in a campaign pushing a longtime .NET keylogger and remote access trojan (RAT) named Agent Tesla.… READ MORE HERE…

Apparent perp claims to have deleted swiped info as carrier Optus struggles to get its story straight +Comment  Australian authorities have asked the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to assist with investigations into the data breach at local telco Optus.… READ MORE HERE…

Russian cybercriminals were also caught targeting Europe with anti-Ukraine messages Meta says it has disrupted a misinformation network targeting US political discourse ahead of the 2022 midterm elections – and one that sought to influence public opinion in Europe about the conflict in Ukraine.… READ MORE HERE…

Will those be before or after the nuke strikes Putin keeps banging on about? Russia plans to conduct “massive cyberattacks” on Ukraine and its allies’ critical infrastructure and energy sector, according to Kyiv.… READ MORE HERE…

From small town in North Dakota with a crime problem to file-scrambling nasty Organizations are being warned about a wave of attacks targeting Microsoft SQL Server with ransomware known as Fargo, which encrypts files and threatens victims that their data may be published online if they do not pay up.… READ MORE HERE…

‘One of the most dangerous and active malware developers operating at the moment’ Crooks spreading the Noberus ransomware are adding weapons to their malware to steal data and credentials from compromised networks.… READ MORE HERE…

‘At least ten’ people didn’t declare coin income. Wow, what a bust The IRS has been granted a court order to collect records from a bank the agency said will help it identify US taxpayers who failed to report taxable income from crypto trades. … READ MORE HERE…

Subscribers have questions – like ‘When were you going to tell us?’ Updated  Australian telecommunications company Optus has fallen victim to a significant cyberattack and data breach.… READ MORE HERE…