SmartScreen Vulnerability: CVE-2024-21412 Facts and Fixes

Credit to Author: Trend Micro Research| Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This entry aims to provide additional context to CVE-2024-21412, how it can be used by threat actors, and how Trend protects customers from this specific vulnerability.

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CVE-2024-21412: Water Hydra Targets Traders with Microsoft Defender SmartScreen Zero-Day

Credit to Author: Peter Girnus| Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The APT group Water Hydra has been exploiting the zero-day Microsoft Defender SmartScreen vulnerability (CVE-2024-21412) in its campaigns targeting financial market traders. This vulnerability, which has now been patched by Microsoft, was discovered and disclosed by the Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative.

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What Generative AI Means for Cybersecurity in 2024

Credit to Author: Shannon Murphy| Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

After a full year of life with ChatGPT cybersecurity experts have a clearer sense of how criminals are using generative AI to enhance attacks – learn what generative AI means for cybersecurity in 2024.

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Unifying Cloud Security Beyond Siloes

Credit to Author: Alifiya Sadikali| Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Attacks don’t stay in siloes, and neither should your security solutions. Explore the benefits of a cybersecurity platform that consolidates security across multiple layers—including the cloud—for more proactive risk management.

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Pawn Storm Uses Brute Force and Stealth Against High-Value Targets

Credit to Author: Feike Hacquebord| Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Based on our estimates, from approximately April 2022 until November 2023, Pawn Storm attempted to launch NTLMv2 hash relay attacks through different methods, with huge peaks in the number of targets and variations in the government departments that it targeted.

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Kasseika Ransomware Deploys BYOVD Attacks, Abuses PsExec and Exploits Martini Driver 

Credit to Author: Emmanuel Panopio| Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

In this blog, we detail our investigation of the Kasseika ransomware and the indicators we found suggesting that the actors behind it have acquired access to the source code of the notorious BlackMatter ransomware.  

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