Microsoft appears to have quietly reversed its decision to disable Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros in its Office productivity suite by default, just five months after announcing the changes.

Read: https://thehackernews.com/2022/07/microsoft-quietly-rolls-back-plan-to.html

Researchers detail a wide range of constantly evolving techniques used by LockBit ransomware uses to infect targets and disable endpoint security solutions.

Details: https://thehackernews.com/2022/07/researchers-detail-techniques-lockbit.html

Cybersecurity researchers are drawing attention to an ongoing wave of attacks linked to Raspberry Robin hackers spreading Windows malware with worm-like capabilities.

Read: https://thehackernews.com/2022/07/researchers-warn-of-raspberry-robins.html

UPDATE — Microsoft confirms to The Hacker News that its decision to reverse course, which does not disable VBA macros by default, is “temporary” and the company is working on some additional changes to improve the user experience.

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PyPI software repository mandates 2-factor authentication for critical Python projects and offering free hardware security keys to developers.

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One of Axie Infinity's former employees was reportedly tricked into accepting a fraudulent job offer on LinkedIn, leading to the $540 million hack in March 2022.

Read details: https://thehackernews.com/2022/07/hackers-used-fake-job-offer-to-hack-and.html

Malicious actors increasingly leveraging GitHub actions and Azure virtual machines (VMs) for cloud-based cryptocurrency mining.

Read: https://thehackernews.com/2022/07/cloud-based-cryptocurrency-miners.html

Microsoft has announced the general availability of a feature called Autopatch that automatically keeps Windows and Office software up-to-date on enrolled endpoints.

Read: https://thehackernews.com/2022/07/microsoft-windows-autopatch-is-now.html

Following a warning from the Italian regulator over a possible GDPR breach, TikTok has agreed to halt a controversial privacy policy update in Europe that would have allowed the company to track users for targeted advertising without their consent.

https://thehackernews.com/2022/07/tiktok-postpones-privacy-policy-update.html

Microsoft has released its July 2022 Patch Tuesday updates to address 84 new vulnerabilities, including a zero-day vulnerability that is actively being exploited in the wild.

Read: https://thehackernews.com/2022/07/microsoft-releases-fix-for-zero-day.html

Researchers have uncovered new variants of the "ChromeLoader" information-stealing malware, highlighting its evolving feature set in a short span of time.

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Microsoft warns of a large-scale AiTM phishing attack campaign targeting over 10,000 organizations around the world that hijacks Office 365's authentication process even for accounts with multi-factor authentication (MFA).

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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) warned that it would take action against the illegal use and sharing of highly sensitive data by technology companies and false claims of data anonymization.

Read: https://thehackernews.com/2022/07/us-ftc-vows-to-crack-down-on-illegal.html

ESET researchers have discovered three new buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the UEFI firmware of several Lenovo Notebook devices, including several ThinkBook models.

Details: https://thehackernews.com/2022/07/new-uefi-firmware-vulnerabilities.html

Researchers uncover a new vulnerability in numerous AMD and Intel microprocessors that could bypass current protections and lead to Specter-based attacks with speculative execution.

Details: https://thehackernews.com/2022/07/new-retbleed-speculative-execution.html

Microsoft has disclosed details of a now-patched vulnerability (CVE-2022-26706) in Apple operating systems — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS and watchOS — that could allow attackers to escalate privileges and deploy malware.

Read: https://thehackernews.com/2022/07/microsoft-details-app-sandbox-escape.html

Nation-state hacking groups aligned with China, Iran, North Korea, and Turkey have been targeting journalists in a series of campaigns to spy on them.

Read: https://thehackernews.com/2022/07/state-backed-hackers-targeting.html

Researchers warn of a new malware campaign by Pakistani "Transparent Tribe" hackers targeting students at educational institutions in India.

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A former programmer at CIA has been found guilty of leaking a trove of classified hacking tools and exploits dubbed "Vault 7" to WikiLeaks.

Read: https://thehackernews.com/2022/07/former-cia-engineer-convicted-of.html

Mantis botnet was behind the largest HTTPS distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in June 2022, targeting thousands of Cloudflare-powered websites.

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