Endpoint/Device Security

QNAP network-attached storage devices are under attack from the novel Checkmate ransomware strain that exploits internet-exposed Server Message Block services, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

Google announced it will immediately delete location history when users visit sensitive medical facilities like abortion clinics following the overturn of Roe v. Wade last month. 

Google has pulled out four mobile applications infected with the Joker malware from its Play Store, reports ZDNet.

The lockdown feature, which comes amid a lawsuit filed by Apple against the prominent surveillance contractor after its software was used by several governments to monitor dissidents, could bring pushback from law enforcement.

VentureBeat reports that significant changes have been introduced by Google for its Password Manager.

Microsoft has warned that the Chinese-speaking 8220 gang has updated its malware campaign aimed at infecting Linux servers with cryptomining malware, ZDNet reports.

Twenty-four government and military entities in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa had 34 Microsoft Exchange servers targeted with the newly discovered SessionManager malware for Microsoft's Internet Information Services web server software, according to BleepingComputer.