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  • Police detains Smokeloader malware customers, seizes servers

    2 weeks ago | bleepingcomputer.com | Ionut Ilascu

    In follow-up activity for Operation Endgame, law enforcement tracked down Smokeloader botnet’s customers and detained at least five individuals. During Operation Endgame last year, more than 100 servers used by major malware loader operations (e.g. IcedID, Pikabot, Trickbot, Bumblebee, Smokeloader, SystemBC) were seized.

  • WinRAR flaw bypasses Windows Mark of the Web security alerts | OpenText Cybersecurity Community

    2 weeks ago | community.opentextcybersecurity.com | Ionut Ilascu

    April 5,  2025 By Ionut IlascuA vulnerability in the WinRAR file archiver solution could be exploited to bypass the Mark of the Web (MotW) security warning and execute arbitrary code on a Windows machine. The security issue is tracked as CVE-2025-31334 and affects all WinRAR versions except the most recent release, which is currently 7.11.

  • WinRAR flaw bypasses Windows Mark of the Web security alerts

    2 weeks ago | bleepingcomputer.com | Ionut Ilascu

    A vulnerability in the WinRAR file archiver solution could be exploited to bypass the Mark of the Web (MotW) security warning and execute arbitrary code on a Windows machine. The security issue is tracked as CVE-2025-31334 and affects all WinRAR versions except the most recent release, which is currently 7.11.

  • WinRAR flaw bypasses Windows Mark of the Web security alerts

    2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Ionut Ilascu

    2 hours agoMicrosoft Confirms Password Deletion For Windows Users—What You Do NowAs Microsoft confirms “it’s now time “to completely remove the password from your account,” millions of users are looking for guidance as to what to do next. The solution is simple. Now “the password era is ending,” all those users should act now.

  • Europcar GitLab breach exposes data of up to 200,000 customers

    2 weeks ago | bleepingcomputer.com | Ionut Ilascu

    A hacker breached the GitLab repositories of multinational car-rental company Europcar Mobility Group and stole source code for Android and iOS applications, as well as some personal information belonging to up to 200,000 customers. The actor tried to extort the company by threatening to publish 37GB of data that includes backups and details about the company’s cloud infrastructure and internal applications.

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