Microsoft fixes Windows 11 issue behind Remote Desktop freezes
Microsoft has addressed a known issue causing the Remote Desktop app to freeze on Windows 11 systems after installing the Windows 11 2022 Update. According…
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The Week in Ransomware – January 27th 2023
For the most part, this week has been relatively quiet regarding ransomware attacks and researcher — that is, until the FBI announced the disruption of…
Massive Microsoft 365 outage caused by WAN router IP change
Microsoft says this week’s five-hour-long Microsoft 365 worldwide outage was caused by a router IP address change that led to packet forwarding issues between all other…
Sandworm hackers hit news agency with 5 data wipers
The Ukrainian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) found a cocktail of five different data-wiping malware strains deployed on the network of the country’s national news…
PlugX malware hides on USB devices to infect new Windows hosts
Security researchers have analyzed a variant of the PlugX malware that can hide malicious files on removable USB devices and then infect the Windows hosts…
Yandex denies hack, blames source code leak on former employee
A Yandex source code repository allegedly stolen by a former employee of the Russian technology company has been leaked as a Torrent on a popular hacking…
Hive ransomware disrupted after FBI hacks gang’s systems
The Hive ransomware operation’s Tor payment and data leak sites were seized as part of an international law enforcement operation after the FBI infiltrated the…
Lexmark warns of RCE bug affecting 100 printer models, PoC released
Lexmark has released a security firmware update to fix a severe vulnerability that could enable remote code execution (RCE) on more than 100 printer models.…
New Mimic ransomware abuses ‘Everything’ Windows search tool
Security researchers discovered a new ransomware strain they named Mimic that leverages the APIs of the ‘Everything’ file search tool for Windows to look for…
US offers $10M bounty for Hive ransomware links to foreign governments
The U.S. Department of State today offered up to $10 million for information that could help link the Hive ransomware group (or other threat actors) with…
Microsoft urges admins to patch on-premises Exchange servers
Microsoft urged customers today to keep their on-premises Exchange servers patched by applying the latest supported Cumulative Update (CU) to have them always ready to…
Windows 11 KB5022360 preview update released with 15 improvements
Microsoft has released the Windows 11 22H2 KB5022360 preview cumulative update with fifteen fixes or improvements. This Windows 11 update is part of Microsoft’s January…