Software giant Microsoft has reported record revenue for both the final quarter of the financial year 2019 and the whole year, pulling in US$33.7 billion for the quarter, a 12% year-on-year increase, and US$125.8 billion for the year, 14% more than in the preceding financial year.

Windows machines which have the remote desktop protocol enabled received login attempts within a day of being exposed on the Internet, the British security firm Sophos says, adding that the 10 honeypots it placed received a total of 4.3 million failed login attempts in a 30-day period.

The threat actor TA505 has begun distributing a new malware downloader known as AndroMut, the security firm Proofpoint claims, adding that this downloader pulls down a remote access trojan that it has called FlawedAmmyy.