The last ever Windows 7 Patch Tuesday update also includes a fix to a long standing bug in the Windows cryptographic library (CryptoAPI) which could allow attackers to spoof digital certificates and conduct man-in-the-middle attacks. Microsoft has long warned that January 2020 was the end of support for Windows 7, meaning that this is expected […]
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A remote code execution vulnerability has been discovered in SQLite, dubbed Magellan 2.0 by the research team that discovered it. Tencent’s Blade security research team has published some details of a remote code execution vulnerability that affects all version of SQLite prior to the latest patch issued on 13 December 2019. SQLite is a widely used
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When Positive Technologies reported a serious flaw in a core element of the Citrix architecture just before Christmas, they predicted up to 80,000 businesses could be at risk. If that vulnerability is exploited, attackers obtain direct access to the company’s local network from the Internet. This attack does not require access to any accounts, and therefore
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In a statement posted on Twitter, Foreign Exchange specialist Travelex confirms that its systems had been subject to a cyberattack on New Years Eve and that many systems and services had been taken offline as a precaution. Four days into the incident, the main Travelex UK home page was still displaying an ASP.NET default error
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The release of the final Star Wars movie this month has been accompanied by a surge in fake download sites offering early or free access to the film while really depositing malware onto fans computers. For organisations that allow employees to take laptops home for the holidays, this may pose an additional risk if the
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Researchers have identified new attack vectors which leverage the RDP drive sharing feature to perform fileless attacks and plant malware. A standard feature of the Microsoft RDP implementation is the ability to share a drive from the client machine. This appears as a network share to the server device at \tsclient. An attacker who was
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A novel attack vector has been seen in the wild: using OAuth permissions to compromise Office365 Accounts Reported by anti-phishing security firm PhishLabs, the new attack leverages the persistent permissions of OAuth authentication to get access to the target Office365 accounts without ever compromising the login credentials. The attack starts with a phishing email which
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The North Korean Lazarus hacker group is targeting crypto-exchanges with innovative fileless Mac malware. Security researcher Patrick Wardle describes this new fileless Mac malware strain in a recent blog post. The malware infects the machine in a fairly standard two stage approach. The victim is first tricked into downloading an application for a new cyptocurrency
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New versions have been released for the four popular implementations of VNC after Kaspersky discovered thirty-seven vulnerabilities in the software VNC (or Virtual Network Computing) is a system that allows one device to access the screen and control the keyboard and mouse of another device. Using the Remote Frame Buffer (RFB) protocol, VNC has been
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HP has issued a critical firmware update for a large number of their SSD drives which will fail after 32768 hours of operation. The defect in the firmware for the SSD drives will cause them to fail and all data on the drive to be permanently lost after 32,768 hours of operation. That’s 3 years,
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