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Patch Tuesday, December 2024 Edition

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10
Dec

Microsoft today released updates to plug at least 70 security holes in Windows and Windows software, including one vulnerability that is already being exploited in active attacks. The zero-day seeing exploitation involves CVE-2024-49138, a security weakness in the Windows Common Log File System (CLFS) driver — used by applications to write transaction logs — that […]

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911 S5, Brett Leatherman, Cloud Router, DewVPN, Krebs, MaskVPN, News, Other, PaladinVPN, Proxygate, Security, Shield VPN, Shine VPN, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Yunhe Wang

Is Your Computer Part of ‘The Largest Botnet Ever?’

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29
May

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) today said they arrested the alleged operator of 911 S5, a ten-year-old online anonymity service that was powered by what the director of the FBI called “likely the world’s largest botnet ever.” The arrest coincided with the seizure of the 911 S5 website and supporting infrastructure, which the government […]

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Treasury Sanctions Creators of 911 S5 Proxy Botnet

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28
May

The U.S. Department of the Treasury today unveiled sanctions against three Chinese nationals for allegedly operating 911 S5, an online anonymity service that for many years was the easiest and cheapest way to route one’s Web traffic through malware-infected computers around the globe. KrebsOnSecurity identified one of the three men in a July 2022 investigation […]

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DomainTools.com, Krebs, Mastodon, Matthew Garrett, News, Other, phishing, Sean McNee, Security, Twitter.com, X.com

Twitter’s Clumsy Pivot to X.com Is a Gift to Phishers

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10
Apr

On April 9, Twitter/X began automatically modifying links that mention “twitter.com” to read “x.com” instead. But over the past 48 hours, dozens of new domain names have been registered that demonstrate how this change could be used to craft convincing phishing links — such as fedetwitter[.]com, which is currently rendered as fedex.com in tweets. The […]

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