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Today is Microsoft’s August 2024 Patch Tuesday, which includes security updates for 89 flaws, including six actively exploited and three publicly disclosed zero-days. Microsoft is still working on an update for a tenth publicly disclosed zero-day. This Patch Tuesday fixed eight critical vulnerabilities, which were a mixture of elevation of privileges, remote code execution, and…

Microsoft has fixed a known issue causing some Windows devices to boot into BitLocker recovery after installing last month’s Windows security updates. Those affected by this are prompted to enter their BitLocker recovery key to unlock the drive and allow the system to boot normally from the BitLocker recovery screen. “We recommend you install the…

Microsoft has released the KB5041585 cumulative update for Windows 11 23H2, which includes many improvements and changes, including the ability to directly drag apps from the Pinned section of the Start menu and pin them to the taskbar. This update was released as part of Microsoft’s August 2024 Patch Tuesday and is mandatory to install as it contains security…

Microsoft has released the KB5041580 cumulative update for Windows 10 22H2 and Windows 10 21H2, which includes 14 changes and fixes, including BitLocker fixes and important security updates. The Windows 10 KB5041580 update is mandatory as it contains  Microsoft’s August 2024 Patch Tuesday security updates, which fix 142 vulnerabilities. Windows users can install this update by going…

Image: Midjourney42-year-old Nigerian national Bamidele Omotosho has been sentenced to 12 years and seven months in prison for his role in a series of cyber scams that resulted in millions of dollars in losses for U.S. citizens. Omotosho and his co-conspirators laundered the stolen funds by using prepaid debit cards, depositing them into accounts opened…

Kootenai Health has disclosed a data breach impacting over 464,000 patients after their personal information was stolen and leaked by the 3AM ransomware operation. Kootenai Health is a not-for-profit healthcare provider in Idaho, operating the largest hospital in the region, offering a wide range of medical services, including emergency care, surgery, cancer treatment, cardiac care,…

​Today, Ivanti urged customers to patch a critical authentication bypass vulnerability impacting Virtual Traffic Manager (vTM) appliances that can let attackers create rogue administrator accounts. Ivanti vTM is a software-based application delivery controller (ADC) that provides app-centric traffic management and load balancing for hosting business-critical services. Tracked as CVE-2024-7593, this auth bypass vulnerability is due…

Learn why the broad use of gen AI copilots will inevitably increase data breaches This scenario is becoming increasingly common in the gen AI era: a competitor somehow gains access to sensitive account information and uses that data to target the organization’s customers with ad campaigns. The organization had no idea how the data was obtained.…

Belarusian-Ukrainian national Maksim Silnikau was arrested in Spain and extradited to the USA to face charges for creating the Ransom Cartel ransomware operation in 2021 and for running a malvertising operation from 2013 to 2022. The threat actor operated under the aliases “J.P. Morgan,” “xxx,” and “lansky” on Russian-speaking hacking forum, where he allegedly promoted the cybercrime operations.…

European privacy advocate NOYB (None of Your Business) has filed nine GDPR complaints about X using the personal data from over 60 million users in Europe to train “Grok,” the social media company’s large language model. According to NOYB, X did not inform its users that their data was being used to train AI and did…