Microsoft Patch Tuesday covers 117 vulnerabilities, 25 of which are considered critical. Microsoft spearheaded a takedown of the Necurs botnet, one of the largest spam and malware distributors in the world. A recent wave of spam emails and ads promising to show maps about where the virus is spreading are stealing users login credentials and credit card numbers. Microsoft took control of many sites controlled by Necurs creators and is preventing the botnet from adding new ones. A Russian threat actor is expected to be behind ransomware attacks on two local governments in North Carolina.”]
Source: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2020/03/threat-source-newsletter-march-12-2020.html