Microsoft: Old Windows Updates Now Expire To Improve Speed, Security Microsoft says it regularly evaluates Windows updates for expiration to make the entire update process faster and safer by removing older releases that have already been superseded by newer packages. Installing updates is slower and their size gets incrementally bigger due to the long backlog
Political-themed Actor Using Old MS Office Flaw To Drop Multiple RATs A novel threat actor with unclear motivesis running a crimeware campaign delivering multiple Windows and Android RATs (remote access tools) through the exploitation of CVE-2017-11882. This four-years-old Microsoft Office Equation Editor bug was addressed in the November 2017 patch, but it appears that it’s still available
Google: YouTubers’ Accounts Hijacked With Cookie-stealing Malware Google says YouTube creators have been targeted with password-stealing malware in phishing attacks coordinated by financially motivated threat actors. Researchers with Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), who first spotted the campaign in late 2019, found that multiple hack-for-hire actors recruited via job ads on Russian-speaking forums were behind
New Gummy Browsers Attack Lets Hackers Spoof Tracking Profiles University researchers in the US have developed a new fingerprint capturing and browser spoofing attack called Gummy Browsers. They warn how easy the attack is to carry out and the severe implications it can have. A digital fingerprint is a unique online identifier associated with a
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