Week in review: Python backdoor attacks, Windows zero-days under attack, crowdsourced pentesting

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Government-backed cyber attackers increasingly targeting journalists Since the start of the year, journalists and news outlets have become preferred targets of government-backed cyber attackers, Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has noticed. Windows users under attack via two new RCE zero-days Attackers are exploiting two new zero-days in the Windows Adobe Type Manager Library to achieve remote code execution on targeted Windows systems. … More

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