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Pierluigi Paganini The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued an alert to warn that the Mamba ransomware is abusing the DiskCryptor open source tool to encrypt entire drives. https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/115974/malware/fbi-mamba-ransomware.html

Pierluigi Paganini The OpenSSL Project addresses two high-severity vulnerabilities, including one related to verifying a certificate chain and one that can trigger a DoS condition. https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/115968/security/openssl-flaws-2.html

Pierluigi Paganini The CyberNews investigation team found 62,174 potentially vulnerable unpatched Microsoft Exchange Servers. https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/115965/hacking/microsoft-exchange-servers-unpatched.html

Pierluigi Paganini Facebook has closed accounts used by a China-linked APT to distribute malware to spy on Uyghurs activists, journalists, and dissidents living outside China. https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/115956/apt/facebook-china-apt-uyghur.html

Pierluigi Paganini Threat actors are offering fake COVID-19 test results and vaccination certificates in blackmarkets and hacking forums on the Dark Web. https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/115943/cyber-crime/covid-19-dark-web.html

Pierluigi Paganini Researchers discovered the availability in the DarK Web of 30M of records of Americans affected by the Astoria Company data breach https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/115934/breaking-news/astoria-company-data-leak.html

James Pethokoukis It wasn’t so long ago — just a few months really — that there was plenty of pundit musing about whether America was...

Alan D. Viard On March 5, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) updated its long-run budget outlook, providing policymakers and the public with another reminder of the nation’s...

Steven B. Kamin and John Kearns The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered the sharpest downturn in the world economy since the Great Depression, with global GDP projected...