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AMD patches a critical microcode vulnerability affecting Zen 1 to Zen 4 EPYC CPUs
By Christopher Harper published
A key AMD microcode vulnerability impacting Epyc CPUs has been fixed.

Facebook flags Linux topics as 'cybersecurity threats'
By Mark Tyson published
Facebook is banning posts which mention various Linux related topics, sites, or groups.

Ransomware debuted 35 years ago as a 5.25inch floppy disk in the mail
By Christopher Harper published
The first-ever example of ransomware dropped 35 years ago, in December 1989.

Hackers bury malware in new ZIP file attack — combining multiple ZIPs into one bypasses antivirus protections
By Jowi Morales published
Security researchers discovered that concatenated ZIP files have been used to hide malicious files in ZIP archives.

Hackers demand France’s Schneider Electric pay a $125k ransom in baguettes
By Mark Tyson published
Hungry hackers have demanded that France’s Schneider Electric pay a $125,000 ransom in baguettes.

Microchip Technology suffers cyberattack
By Jowi Morales published
U.S. chipmaker Microchip Technology suffers from cyberattack, forcing it to reduce operations as it looks into the scope of the damage.

Indonesia gov ransomware chaos may be over after hack group apologizes and says it has shared decrypt keys
By Jowi Morales published
Brain Cipher group, which was behind the massive ransomware attack on the Indonesian government, released the decrypt keys and apologized publicly for its actions.

Indonesia, suffering from a ransomware attack, discovers it has no backups — 'That's stupidity,' remarks astute government official
By Jeff Butts published
The devastation from a June cyberattack against Indonesia has been made much worse by a complete lack of data backups from one of the compromised data centers.
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