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By AMSAT Dec 18,2020

Cybersecurity Weekly News Roundup

The outgoing week has been full of happenings: supply chain attacks, cyberattacks, and creation of kill switch for SolarWinds backdoor by technology giants like Microsoft and FireEye have dominated the cybersecurity landscape.

Here is a brief review of news that stood out in the cyberworld.

Microsoft, FireEye confirmed SolarWinds supply chain attack

Cybercriminals believed to be operating on behalf of a foreign government breached software provider SolarWinds and then deployed a malware-laced update for its Orion software to infect the networks of numerous US companies and government networks.

Cyberattack hit SolarWinds’ 18,000 customers

SolarWinds divulged that 18,000 customers might have been affected by the cyber-attack against its supply chain.

FireEye, Microsoft, GoDaddy come up with kill switch for SolarWinds backdoor

Microsoft, FireEye, and GoDaddy collaborated to create a kill switch for the SolarWinds Sunburst backdoor that forces the malware to axe itself.

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By AMSAT Oct 9,2020

Week in review: What happened in the field of cybersecurity

Reports of vulnerability exploits, software releases, and ransomware vaccine marked the outgoing week. Here is a brief review of news that dominated the cyberworld.

New ransomware vaccine programs created

A new ransomware vaccine program was developed that terminates processes that use Microsoft’s vssadmin.exe application to try to remove volume shadow copies. Windows could make copies of users’ system and data files every day and save them in snapshots of Shadow volume copy.

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Windows Error Reporting service exploited by hackers

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US seized domain names used by Iran for propaganda

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