Day: June 8, 2021

Microsoft Patch Tuesday Fixes 6 In-The-Wild Exploits, 50 Flaws

Researchers discovered a highly targeted malware campaign launched in April, in which a new, unknown threat actor used two of the vulnerabilities that Microsoft said are under active attack. …read more Source:: Threatpost


Microsoft Patches 6 Zero-Days Under Active Attack

The June 2021 Patch Tuesday fixes 50 vulnerabilities, six of which are under attack and three of which were publicly known at the time of disclosure. …read more Source:: DarkReading


Chris Harrison out for good as Bachelor host after tumultuous year – CNET

Harrison faced backlash following controversial comments about a Bachelor contestant’s plantation party photos. “I’m excited to start a new chapter,” the veteran host says. …read more Source:: CNet


KDE Plasma 5.22 Released

KDE Plasma 5.22 is now available, bringing “hugely improved” Wayland support, better performance for gaming, adaptive panel transparency for the panel and widgets, and more. Phoronix reports: There is now support for variable rate refresh (VRR) / Adaptive-Sync on Wayland, vertical/horizontal maximization now working with KWin Wayland, global menu applet support under Wayland, support for…


UiPath, robotic process automation startup, tops expectations in first quarterly report

UiPath said it had 104 customers contributing annualized recurring revenue of more than $1 million. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Lewd Phishing Lures Aimed at Business Explode

Socially engineered BEC attacks using X-rated material spike 974 percent. …read more Source:: Threatpost


Colonial Pipeline CEO: Ransomware Attack Started via Pilfered ‘Legacy’ VPN Account

No multi-factor authentication was attached to the stolen VPN password used by the attackers, Colonial Pipeline president & CEO Joseph Blount told a Senate committee today. …read more Source:: DarkReading


Ransomware Struck Another Pipeline Firm — and 70GB of Data Leaked

When ransomware hackers hit Colonial Pipeline last month and shut off the distribution of gas along much of the East Coast of the United States, the world woke up to the danger of digital disruption of the petrochemical pipeline industry. Now it appears another pipeline-focused business was also hit by a ransomware crew around the…


TrickBot Coder Faces Decades in Prison

A Latvian malware developer known as “Max” has been arraigned on 19 counts related to fraud, identity theft, information theft and money laundering. …read more Source:: Threatpost


Bezos, Musk and other billionaires pay next to nothing in income taxes, report says – CNET

ProPublica got its hands on a trove of IRS documents. …read more Source:: CNet