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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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x64dbg: Open-source binary debugger for Windows

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x64dbg: Open-source binary debugger for Windows 2024-08-19 at 07:01 By Mirko Zorz x64dbg is an open-source binary debugger for Windows, designed for malware analysis and reverse engineering of executables without access to the source code. It offers a wide range of features and a plugin system, allowing you to customize and extend its capabilities to

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Copy2Pwn Zero-Day Exploited to Bypass Windows Protections

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Copy2Pwn Zero-Day Exploited to Bypass Windows Protections 2024-08-16 at 13:17 By Eduard Kovacs ZDI details a zero-day named Copy2Pwn and tracked as CVE-2024-38213, which cybercriminals exploited to bypass MotW protections in Windows. The post Copy2Pwn Zero-Day Exploited to Bypass Windows Protections appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek RSS Feed View

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Microsoft fixes 6 zero-days under active attack

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Microsoft fixes 6 zero-days under active attack 2024-08-13 at 23:16 By Zeljka Zorz August 2024 Patch Tuesday is here, and Microsoft has delivered fixes for 90 vulnerabilities, six of which have been exploited in the wild as zero-days, and four are publicly known. The zero-days under attack CVE-2024-38178 is a Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability

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Microsoft Warns of Six Windows Zero-Days Being Actively Exploited

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Microsoft Warns of Six Windows Zero-Days Being Actively Exploited 2024-08-13 at 23:01 By Ryan Naraine Microsoft’s security response team pushed out documentation for almost 90 vulnerabilities across Windows and OS components and marked several flaws in the actively exploited category. The post Microsoft Warns of Six Windows Zero-Days Being Actively Exploited appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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“Perfect” Windows downgrade attack turns fixed vulnerabilities into zero-days

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“Perfect” Windows downgrade attack turns fixed vulnerabilities into zero-days 2024-08-08 at 13:01 By Zeljka Zorz A researcher has developed a downgrade attack that can make Windows machines covertly, persistently and irreversibly vulnerable, even if they were fully patched before that. A downgrade attack exploiting the Windows Update process The direction of SafeBreach researcher Alon Leviev’s

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CrowdStrike Releases Root Cause Analysis of Falcon Sensor BSOD Crash

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CrowdStrike Releases Root Cause Analysis of Falcon Sensor BSOD Crash 2024-08-06 at 21:16 By Ryan Naraine CrowdStrike says the Falcon sensor crash that blue-screened Windows machines was caused by a “confluence” of vulnerabilities and testing gaps. The post CrowdStrike Releases Root Cause Analysis of Falcon Sensor BSOD Crash appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is

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Researchers unearth MotW bypass technique used by threat actors for years

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Researchers unearth MotW bypass technique used by threat actors for years 2024-08-06 at 14:31 By Zeljka Zorz Threat actors have been abusing a bug in how Windows handles LNK files with non-standard target paths and internal structures to prevent in-built protections from stopping malicious payloads and trick users into running them. “We identified multiple samples

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Some good may come out of the CrowdStrike outage

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Some good may come out of the CrowdStrike outage 2024-07-29 at 19:31 By Zeljka Zorz Estimated financial losses due to the recent massive IT outage triggered by the faulty CrowdStrike update are counted in billions, but the unfortunate incident is having several positive effects, as well. Some silver linings As CrowdStrike was forced to explain,

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Microsoft releases tool to speed up recovery of systems borked by CrowdStrike update

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Microsoft releases tool to speed up recovery of systems borked by CrowdStrike update 2024-07-22 at 15:16 By Zeljka Zorz By now, most people are aware of – or have been personally affected by – the largest IT outage the world have ever witnessed, courtesy of a defective update for Crowdstrike Falcon Sensors that threw Windows

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Threat Actors Exploit Recent CrowdStrike Outage to Ramp Up Suspicious Domain Creation

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Threat Actors Exploit Recent CrowdStrike Outage to Ramp Up Suspicious Domain Creation 2024-07-20 at 19:46 By dakshsharma16 On July 19th, 2024, CrowdStrike, a leading cybersecurity provider of advanced end-point security detection and protection solutions, released a sensor configuration update to Windows systems. This update contained a logic error that resulted in system crashes and Blue

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