Microsoft has warned of a new wave of CACTUS ransomware attacks that leverage malvertising lures to deploy DanaBot as an initial access vector. The DanaBot infections led to “hands-on-keyboard activity by ransomware operator Storm-0216 (Twisted Spider, UNC2198), culminating in the deployment of CACTUS ransomware,” the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team said in a series of posts […]
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Microsoft has announced that it plans to eliminate NT LAN Manager (NTLM) in Windows 11 in the future, as it pivots to alternative methods for authentication and bolster security. “The focus is on strengthening the Kerberos authentication protocol, which has been the default since 2000, and reducing reliance on NT LAN Manager (NTLM),” the tech […]
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Microsoft fixed three zero-days under actively exploitation in its patch dump for the month of October. The computing giant addressed a zero-day vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-36563, a disclosure flaw in WordPad that can be exploited to obtain hashed passwords. WordPad is a no-frills word processing program bundled into the Windows operating system – although Microsoft […]
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