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Microsoft has released details of a method whereby remote code can be executed within Google's Chrome browser. This appears to be a reaction to Google's disclosure of bugs in Windows earlier this year.

The Necurs email botnet has made a return and, apart from spreading new variants of the Locky ransomware and the Trickybot trojan, also has new functionality that gathers telemetry data from the Windows desktop of its victims.

More than four years after Microsoft's internal bug-tracking database was hacked, details have emerged about the incident, only the second known break-in of such a database, via five ex-workers.