Microsoft: Trickbot Take-Down Rate Is 94%

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Microsoft said it has disabled 120 out of 128 command and control servers it has identified as part of the Trickbot botnet which the company says equates to a 94% take-down rate. The move follows a push by the Pentagon and a coalition of tech companies to take out the ransomware-purveying botnet ahead of election day and following a string of high-profile ransomware attacks. (Tim Starks / Cyberscoop)

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NSA Outlines Twenty-Five CVEs Used by Chinese State-Sponsored Actors

The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) published an in-depth report on Chinese state-sponsored malicious cyber activity outlining “25 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) known to be recently leveraged, or scanned-for, by Chinese state-sponsored cyber actors to enable succ…