What’s New in Windows 11 Sun Valley 2 Update, Arriving this Year Later this year, Microsoft is planning to launch the first big update for Windows 11. The update is reportedly codenamed “Sun Valley 2,” and it is expected to ship with a new Task Manager, improvements to Start Menu Read more…
FBI Shares Lockbit Ransomware Technical Details, Defense Tips The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has released technical details and indicators of compromise associated with LockBit ransomware attacks in a new flash alert published this Friday. It also provided information to help organizations block this adversary’s attempts to breach their networks Read more…
The Week in Ransomware – February 4th 2022 – Critical Infrastructure Critical infrastructure suffered ransomware attacks, with threat actors targeting an oil petrol distributor and oil terminals in major ports in different attacks. Earlier this week, German petrol distributor Oiltanking suffered a ransomware attack allegedly by the new ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware operation. Soon Read more…
Microsoft Disables MSIX Protocol Handler Abused in Emotet Attacks Microsoft has disabled the MSIX ms-appinstaller protocol handler exploited in malware attacks to install malicious apps directly from a website via a Windows AppX Installer spoofing vulnerability. Today’s decision comes after the company released security updates to address the flaw (tracked as CVE-2021-43890) during Read more…
Microsoft: Russian FSB Hackers Hitting Ukraine Since October Microsoft said today that a Russian hacking group known as Gamaredon has been behind a streak of spear-phishing emails targeting Ukrainian entities and organizations related to Ukrainian affairs since October 2021. Linked by Ukraine’s security (SSU) and secret (SBU) services to Russia’s Federal Read more…
A Look at the New Sugar Ransomware Demanding Low Ransoms A new Sugar Ransomware operation actively targets individual computers, rather than corporate networks, with low ransom demands. First discovered by the Walmart Security Team, ‘Sugar’ is a new Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) operation that launched in November 2021 but has slowly been Read more…
CISA Orders Federal Agencies to Patch Actively Exploited Windows Bug The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has ordered federal agencies to patch their systems against an actively exploited Windows vulnerability that enables attackers to gain SYSTEM privileges. Per a binding operational directive (BOD 22-01) issued in November and today’s announcement, Read more…
US Indicts Multiple Call Centers for IRS, Social Security Scams The U.S. Department of Justice has announced the indictment of several India-based call centers and their directors for targeting Americans with Social Security, IRS, and loan phone call scams. The call centers allegedly placed scam robocalls that were rerouted through Read more…
HHS: Conti Ransomware Encrypted 80% of Ireland’s HSE IT Systems A threat brief published by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Thursday paints a grim picture of how Ireland’s health service, the HSE, was overwhelmed and had 80% of its systems encrypted during last year’s Conti ransomware Read more…
Argo CD Vulnerability Leaks Sensitive Info from Kubernetes Apps A vulnerability in Argo CD, used by thousands of orgs for deploying applications to Kubernetes, can be leveraged in attacks to disclose sensitive information such as passwords and API keys. Tracked as CVE-2022-24348, the path-traversal flaw was discovered by the security Read more…
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