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- The latest in a flurry of actions this week, tied to foreign threats against U.S. computer systems, includes sanctions by the Department of the Treasury.
- The COVID-19 pandemic, coupled with an explosion in the number of connected devices, have led to a swelling in IoT infections observed on wireless networks.
- An investigation showed a custom backdoor RAT and the Emotet trojan in the networks of municipal victims of the attacks.
- There are many areas of the election process that criminal hackers can target to influence election results.
- With Election Day approaching, local governments need to be prepared for malware attacks on election infrastructure.
- Dr. Reddy's, the contractor for Russia’s “Sputinik V” COVID-19 vaccine and a major generics producer, has had to close plants and isolate its data centers.
- Versions of Nvidia GeForce Experience for Windows prior to 3.20.5.70 are affected by a high-severity bug that could enable code execution, denial of service and more.
- Sopra Steria hit with cyber attack that reportedly encrypted parts of their network on Oct. 20 but has remained mostly mum on details.
- Trump’s weak Twitter password and lack of basic two-factor authentication protections made it shockingly simple to hack his account, Dutch security researcher Victor Gevers reported.
- An elaborate set of redirections and hundreds of URLs make up a wide-ranging tech-support scam.