Microsoft today patched 80 different vulnerabilities. This includes the Chromium vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft Edge. Nine vulnerabilities are rated as "Critical" by Microsoft. Three of the vulnerabilities, all rated "important", are already being exploited

Today, everything is “smart” or “intelligent”. We have smartphones, smart cars, smart doorbells, etc. Being "smart" means performing actions depending on the context, the environment, or user actions. For a while, backdoors and trojans have implemented screenshot capabilities. From an attacker’s point of view, it’s interesting to “see” what’s displayed on the victim’s computer.

Malicious Google Ad -- Fake Notepad++ Page -- Aurora Stealer malware

Fake sites for popular software have occasionally been used by cyber criminal groups to push malware. Campaigns pushing IcedID malware (also known as Bokbot) also use this method as a distribution technique (we also commonly see IcedID sent through email).