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Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 11:41:19 +0000
The Zloader botnet is a malware as a service provider for a few notorious ransomware gangs. But now it has taken a serious blow to its infrastructure.
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Read MoreCredit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 11:41:19 +0000
The Zloader botnet is a malware as a service provider for a few notorious ransomware gangs. But now it has taken a serious blow to its infrastructure.
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Credit to Author: Editorial Team| Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2022 18:06:10 +0000
Time to update! Microsoft fixed 128 vulnerabilities in a list of products, including Windows and its components. Ten critical, one already exploited.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2022 13:57:39 +0000
April’s Patch Tuesday brings patches for two zero-day vulnerabilities and two potentially wormable Network File System vulnerabilities.
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Read MoreCredit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2022 14:23:30 +0000
Two announcements in two days detail operations against GRU-controlled infrastructure
The post Successful operations against Russian Sandworm and Strontium groups targeting Ukraine revealed appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
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Credit to Author: Rob Enderle| Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2022 10:24:00 -0700
Disclosure: Microsoft is a client of the author.
Microsoft this week had an analyst event about Windows 11 and a variety of productivity, management, and security features the company has planned. Over the last couple of years, Microsoft has aggressively improved both Windows and Office 365, but the big change ahead is the potential blend of Windows with Windows 365. We’ll see that start by the end of the year. The end game should be what appears to be a Windows desktop that integrates so well with the cloud that it can, when necessary, seamlessly switch between instances to comply with company policy, assure security, and provide recourse on automatic demand from Azure Cloud.
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2022 17:55:38 +0000
Many organizations are already struggling to combat cybersecurity threats from ransomware purveyors and state-sponsored hacking groups, both of which tend to take days or weeks to pivot from an opportunistic malware infection to a full blown data breach. But few organizations have a playbook for responding to the kinds of virtual “smash and grab” attacks we’ve seen recently from LAPSUS$, a juvenile data extortion group whose short-lived, low-tech and remarkably effective tactics are putting some of the world’s biggest corporations on edge.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Katie McCafferty| Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2022 01:30:07 +0000
For the fourth consecutive year, Microsoft 365 Defender demonstrated industry-leading protection in MITRE Engenuity’s independent ATT&CK® Enterprise Evaluations. These results highlighted the importance of taking an XDR-based approach spanning endpoints, identities, email and cloud, and the importance of both prevention and protection.
The post Microsoft 365 Defender demonstrates industry-leading protection in the 2022 MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Evaluations appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.
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