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Microsoft plans to boot security vendors out of the Windows kernel

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Microsoft plans to boot security vendors out of the Windows kernel 2024-11-19 at 20:48 By Zeljka Zorz Microsoft has announced the Windows Resiliency Initiative, aimed at avoiding a repeat of the prolonged worldwide IT outage caused by a buggy CrowdStrike update that took down millions of Windows machines and rendered them remotely unfixable. As part […]

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How a Windows zero-day was exploited in the wild for months (CVE-2024-43451)

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How a Windows zero-day was exploited in the wild for months (CVE-2024-43451) 2024-11-14 at 12:02 By Zeljka Zorz CVE-2024-43451, a Windows zero-day vulnerability for which Microsoft released a fix on November 2024 Patch Tuesday, has been exploited since at least April 2024, ClearSky researchers have revealed. About the vulnerability CVE-2024-43451 affects all supported Windows versions

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Microsoft fixes actively exploited zero-days (CVE-2024-43451, CVE-2024-49039)

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Microsoft fixes actively exploited zero-days (CVE-2024-43451, CVE-2024-49039) 2024-11-12 at 23:03 By Zeljka Zorz November 2024 Patch Tuesday is here, and Microsoft has dropped fixes for 89 new security issues in its various products, two of which – CVE-2024-43451 and CVE-2024-49039 – are actively exploited by attackers. The exploited vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-43451, CVE-2024-49039) CVE-2024-43451 is yet another

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November 2024 Patch Tuesday forecast: New servers arrive early

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November 2024 Patch Tuesday forecast: New servers arrive early 2024-11-11 at 08:03 By Help Net Security Microsoft followed their October precedent set with Windows 11 24H2 and announced Microsoft Server 2025 on the first of November. We were expecting the official announcement at Microsoft Ignite near the end of the month, but with the early

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GoZone ransomware accuses and threatens victims

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GoZone ransomware accuses and threatens victims 2024-11-06 at 13:06 By Zeljka Zorz A new ransomware dubbed GoZone is being leveraged by attackers that don’t seem to be very greedy: they are asking the victims to pay just $1,000 in Bitcoin if they want their files decrypted. The GoZone HTML ransom note (Source: SonicWall) The ransom

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Patching problems: The “return” of a Windows Themes spoofing vulnerability

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Patching problems: The “return” of a Windows Themes spoofing vulnerability 2024-10-29 at 12:18 By Zeljka Zorz Despite two patching attempts, a security issue that may allow attackers to compromise Windows user’s NTLM (authentication) credentials via a malicious Windows themes file still affects Microsoft’s operating system, 0patch researchers have discovered. The path to discovery The story

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Fake Google Meet pages deliver infostealers

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Fake Google Meet pages deliver infostealers 2024-10-17 at 14:47 By Zeljka Zorz Users of the Google Meet video communication service have been targeted by cyber crooks using the ClickFix tactic to infect them with information-stealing malware. Fake Google Meet video conference page with malicious ClickFix pop-up (Source: Sekoia) “The ClickFix tactic deceives users into downloading

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Microsoft patches two zero-days exploited in the wild (CVE-2024-43573, CVE-2024-43572)

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Microsoft patches two zero-days exploited in the wild (CVE-2024-43573, CVE-2024-43572) 2024-10-08 at 22:49 By Zeljka Zorz For October 2024 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released fixes for 117 security vulnerabilities, including two under active exploitation: CVE-2024-43573, a spoofing bug affecting the Windows MSHTML Platform, and CVE-2024-43572, a remote code execution flaw in the Microsoft Management Console

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Use Windows event logs for ransomware investigations, JPCERT/CC advises

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Use Windows event logs for ransomware investigations, JPCERT/CC advises 2024-10-01 at 13:46 By Zeljka Zorz The JPCERT Coordination Center – the first Computer Security Incident Response Team established in Japan – has compiled a list of entries in Windows event logs that could help enterprise defenders respond to human-operated ransomware attacks and potentially limit the

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Microsoft revised the controversial Copilot+ Recall feature

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Microsoft revised the controversial Copilot+ Recall feature 2024-09-30 at 13:46 By Zeljka Zorz Microsoft has made changes to Recall – the screenshot-taking, AI-powered search feature for Copilot+ PCs running Windows 11 – to reassure users worried about security and privacy. The security of the feature has been assessed by Microsoft’s Offensive Research & Security Engineering

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CrowdStrike Overhauls Testing and Rollout Procedures to Avoid System Crashes

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CrowdStrike Overhauls Testing and Rollout Procedures to Avoid System Crashes 2024-09-24 at 23:16 By Ryan Naraine CrowdStrike says it has revamped several testing, validation, and update rollout processes to prevent a repeat of the July BSOD incident. The post CrowdStrike Overhauls Testing and Rollout Procedures to Avoid System Crashes appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article

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Windows users targeted with fake human verification pages delivering malware

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Windows users targeted with fake human verification pages delivering malware 2024-09-19 at 17:01 By Zeljka Zorz For a while now, security researchers have been warning about fake human verification pages tricking Windows users into inadvertently installing malware. A recently exposed campaign showed how some users end up on these pages. Beware of fake human verification

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Microsoft confirms second 0-day exploited by Void Banshee APT (CVE-2024-43461)

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Microsoft confirms second 0-day exploited by Void Banshee APT (CVE-2024-43461) 2024-09-16 at 15:46 By Zeljka Zorz CVE-2024-43461, a spoofing vulnerability affecting Windows MSHTML – a software component used by various apps for rendering render web pages on Windows – “was exploited as a part of an attack chain relating to CVE-2024-38112, prior to July 2024,”

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Microsoft Says Recent Windows Vulnerability Exploited as Zero-Day

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Microsoft Says Recent Windows Vulnerability Exploited as Zero-Day 2024-09-16 at 14:46 By Ionut Arghire Microsoft warns that a recently patched Windows vulnerability was exploited in the wild as a zero-day prior to July 2024. The post Microsoft Says Recent Windows Vulnerability Exploited as Zero-Day appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek

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EchoStrike: Generate undetectable reverse shells, perform process injection

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EchoStrike: Generate undetectable reverse shells, perform process injection 2024-09-16 at 07:31 By Mirko Zorz EchoStrike is an open-source tool designed to generate undetectable reverse shells and execute process injection on Windows systems. “EchoStrike allows you to generate binaries that, when executed, create an undetectable RevShell, which can be the first entry point into a company.

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Post-CrowdStrike Fallout: Microsoft Redesigning EDR Vendor Access to Windows Kernel

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Post-CrowdStrike Fallout: Microsoft Redesigning EDR Vendor Access to Windows Kernel 2024-09-13 at 21:45 By Ryan Naraine Microsoft is revamping how anti-malware tools interact with the Windows kernel to avoid another CrowdStrike faulty update catastrophe. The post Post-CrowdStrike Fallout: Microsoft Redesigning EDR Vendor Access to Windows Kernel appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt

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Microsoft fixes 4 exploited zero-days and a code defect that nixed earlier security fixes

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Microsoft fixes 4 exploited zero-days and a code defect that nixed earlier security fixes 2024-09-10 at 22:46 By Zeljka Zorz September 2024 Patch Tuesday is here and Microsoft has delivered 79 fixes, including those for a handful of zero-days (CVE-2024-38217, CVE-2024-38226, CVE-2024-38014, CVE-2024-43461) exploited by attackers in the wild, and a Windows 10 code defect

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33 open-source cybersecurity solutions you didn’t know you needed

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33 open-source cybersecurity solutions you didn’t know you needed 2024-09-10 at 06:31 By Help Net Security Open-source cybersecurity tools provide transparency and flexibility, allowing users to examine and customize the source code to fit specific security needs. These tools make cybersecurity accessible to a broader range of organizations and individuals. In this article, you will

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September 2024 Patch Tuesday forecast: Downgrade is the new exploit

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September 2024 Patch Tuesday forecast: Downgrade is the new exploit 2024-09-06 at 08:16 By Help Net Security I asked for a calm August 2024 Patch Tuesday in last month’s forecast article and that came to pass. The updates released were limited to the regular operating systems and all forms of Office applications. Six zero-day vulnerabilities

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APT group exploits WPS Office for Windows RCE vulnerability (CVE-2024-7262)

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APT group exploits WPS Office for Windows RCE vulnerability (CVE-2024-7262) 2024-08-28 at 12:02 By Help Net Security ESET researchers discovered a remote code execution vulnerability in WPS Office for Windows (CVE-2024-7262). APT-C-60, a South Korea-aligned cyberespionage group, was exploiting it to target East Asian countries. When examining the root cause, ESET discovered another way to

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