Microsoft has issued an advisory and patched a remote code execution vulnerability in its Microsoft Malware Protection Engine after the flaw was spotted by a Google Project Zero bug hunter.
The Armada Collective hacking group has issued a $315,000 ransom demand to seven South Korean banks, after threatening to launch distributed denial of service attacks against each of their organizations.
If colleges struck last week with ransomware attacks had ad blockers on their systems, they likely could have avoided trouble, according to a post from security researcher Graham Cluley.
