Botnet Backdoors Microsoft Exchange Servers, Mines Cryptocurrency Unpatched Microsoft Exchange servers are being targeted by the Prometei botnet and added to its operators’ army of Monero (XMR) cryptocurrency mining bots. This modular malware can infect both Windows and Linux systems, and it was first spotted last year while using the EternalBlue exploit to spread across compromised networks and enslave
Exchange Online Down: Microsoft 365 Outage Affects Email Delivery A Microsoft 365 outage is preventing Exchange Online users from sending and receiving emails, with messages being stuck in transit and not reaching the recipients’ inboxes. “We’re investigating a potential issue with Exchange Online mailflow in North America,” Microsoft shared on the company’s Microsoft 365 Status Twitter account. “Further
Microsoft Autoruns Is Crashing When Listing Windows 10 Startups A recent update to Microsoft’s Sysinternals Autoruns program is causing the program to crash as its scans for autostarts in Windows. For those not familiar with Autoruns, it is a free utility from Microsoft that enumerates all the programs that automatically start on a Windows machine.
Microsoft Partially Fixes Windows 7, Server 2008 Vulnerability Microsoft has silently issued a partial fix for a local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability impacting all Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 devices. This LPE vulnerability (not yet officially tracked using a CVE ID) stems from the misconfiguration of two service registry keys and it allows local
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