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CryptoRom fake iOS cryptocurrency apps hit US, European victims for at least $1.4 million

Scammers combine romantic lures with crypto scams, abusing Apple’s ad-hoc app distribution to steal millions from people around the world.

Windows Print Spooler gets more patches in October’s Patch Tuesday

Today Microsoft released its latest round of security fixes, addressing 74 vulnerabilities in Microsoft products. Of these, Microsoft’s Security Response Center has classified only two as “critical”—both of which could allow remote code execution in Windows’ Hyper-V virtual machine hypervisor. But all but two of the remainder are classified as “important”, and one is already…
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Sophos XDR: Detections and Investigations early access program now open

We are pleased to announce that the early access program (EAP) for Sophos XDR Detections and Investigations is now open to all customers and partners. This new functionality helps admins spend their time more efficiently by focusing on resolving the most important issues quickly. The EAP introduces the Detections dashboard, which provides a prioritized list…
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Python ransomware script targets ESXi server for encryption

Configuration errors rapidly escalated to a ransomware attack inside a virtual machine hypervisor