Liquidity mining scams add another layer to cryptocurrency crime

May 10, 2022

Hyper-V and Active Directory Front and Center for May Patch Tuesday

Organizations should look at last month’s and this month’s bulletins and put their Hyper-V and Active Directory servers and infrastructure at the top of the priority list.

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May 04, 2022

Attacking Emotet’s Control Flow Flattening

Sweeping aside one obfuscation technique in a notorious strain of malware

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April 12, 2022

RPC Vulnerability Stands Out in a Field of 128 in April

This month’s Patch Tuesday is more about quantity than severity, with one flashback-inducing exception

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March 08, 2022

Microsoft patches 71 vulnerabilities including RDP Client, Exchange Server, Intune

Just two Critical-class vulnerabilities, but Windows Update doesn’t handle every package this month

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February 28, 2022

Conti and Karma actors attack healthcare provider at same time through ProxyShell exploits

An unpatched Microsoft Exchange Server let both ransomware actors in; Karma just stole data, while Conti encrypted.

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February 23, 2022

Dridex bots deliver Entropy ransomware in recent attacks

Some code used in the ransomware bear a resemblance to code used in Dridex malware, hinting at a common origin

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February 09, 2022

Microsoft Fixes 52 Vulnerabilities in February, 2022 Patches

Active Directory, Visual Studio, and Microsoft Dynamics & Power BI business packages also got updates

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January 11, 2022

First Patch Tuesday of 2022 repairs 102 bugs

Critical bugs fixed in Exchange, Office, and graphics subsystems--plus a few unexpected products

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December 22, 2021

Avos Locker remotely accesses boxes, even running in Safe Mode

Infections involving this relatively new ransomware-as-a-service spiked in November and December

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