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Meteoric attack deploys Quantum ransomware in mere hours

April 26, 2022

A group wielding the Quantum Locker ransomware is hitting targets in a blitzkrieg-like manner, going from intial compromise to domain-wide deployment and execution in under …

Critical Microsoft RPC runtime bug: No PoC exploit yet, but patch ASAP! (CVE-2022-26809)

April 15, 2022

Three days have passed since Microsoft’s latest Patch Tuesday, and CVE-2022-26809 has emerged as the vulnerability with the most exploitation potential. It’s easy …

Windows Autopatch: Managed enterprise patching for Windows and Office

April 11, 2022

While IT administrators are mentally preparing themselves for yet another Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has announced Windows Autopatch: a new service that aims make the second …

April 2022 Patch Tuesday forecast: Spring is in the air (and vulnerable)

April 8, 2022

March Patch Tuesday releases followed in the footsteps of February with low numbers of CVEs reported and resolved, and all updates rated as important except one critical …

How to empower IT Sec and Ops teams to anticipate and resolve IT problems

March 1, 2022

Every IT system administrator knows the misery of facing a problem for which the root cause requires hours (and sometimes days) to unearth, all the while part of the IT …

Jetico BCWipe Privacy Guard empowers users to disable Microsoft’s default tracking features

February 11, 2022

Jetico released BCWipe Privacy Guard, bringing together all Windows privacy settings and empowers users to disable Microsoft’s default tracking features with one click, …

February 2022 Patch Tuesday forecast: A rough start for 2022

February 4, 2022

January 2022 Patch Tuesday was a rough one for Microsoft — and us. In the week following Patch Tuesday, Microsoft was forced to pull and subsequently re-issue several updates …

Delivering vulnerable signed kernel drivers remains popular among attackers

January 13, 2022

ESET researchers took an in-depth look into the abuse of vulnerable kernel drivers. Vulnerabilities in signed drivers are mostly utilized by game cheat developers to …

A new multi-platform backdoor is leveraged by an advanced threat actor

January 12, 2022

A novel multi-platform backdoor dubbed SysJoker has been successfully evading security solutions since mid-2021. “In the Linux and macOS versions, it masquerades as a …

Microsoft patches spoofing vulnerability exploited by Emotet (CVE-2021-43890)

December 14, 2021

It’s the final Patch Tuesday of 2021 and Microsoft has delivered fixes for 67 vulnerabilities, including a spoofing vulnerability (CVE-2021-43890) actively exploited to …

Microsoft vulnerabilities have grave implications for organizations of all sizes

December 10, 2021

Microsoft software products are a connective tissue of many organizations, from online documents (creating, sharing, storing), to email and calendaring, to the operating …

After failed fix, researcher releases exploit for Windows EoP flaw (CVE-2021-41379)

November 24, 2021

A local elevation of privilege vulnerability (CVE-2021-41379) in the Windows Installer that Microsoft supposedly fixed on November 2021 Patch Tuesday is, according to its …

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