What Transpired In The World Of Cybersecurity In Past Week?

While reports of Emotet attacks, security risks, and more dominated the realm of cybersecurity, the most striking news of the outgoing week was the hacking of US president’s campaign website by the cryptocurrency scammers.  

Here is a brief review of news that dominated the cyberworld.

New Emotet attacks sought recipients to upgrade Microsoft Word

Research observed that Emotet attacks using a new prototype that pretended to be a Microsoft Office message, urging recipients to update their Microsoft Word to add a new feature. Emotet junk messages influenced templates to trick the victims into allowing commands to start the infection.

Experts divulged new security risks caused by link previews in messaging apps

Over the weekend, cybersecurity experts revealed new security risks associated with link previews in popular messaging apps that cause the services to leak IP addresses, expose links sent via end-to-end encoded chats, and even pointlessly download gigabytes of data stealthily in the background.