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Another vital Windows tool is being abused to sideload malware

05

Jan

2023

Cybercriminals have been spotted sideloading malware(opens in new tab) onto vulnerable Windows endpoints through a legitimate Windows Problem Reporting tool called WerFault.exe. According to researchers from K7 Security Labs, which first discovered the campaign, hackers (presumably from China) would send out a phishing email containing an ISO file. ISO is an optical disk image file […]

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, October 2022 Edition

11

Oct

2022

Microsoft today released updates to fix at least 85 security holes in its Windows operating systems and related software, including a new zero-day vulnerability in all supported versions of Windows that is being actively exploited. However, noticeably absent from this month’s Patch Tuesday are any updates to address a pair of zero-day flaws being exploited […]

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Even the Windows logo isn’t safe from malware

30

Sep

2022

It appears that not even the iconic Windows logo is safe from malware(opens in new tab) anymore, as some cybercriminals managed to successfully hide malicious code inside it. Cybersecurity experts at Symantec claim to have spotted one such campaign using a process of hiding malicious code in otherwise harmless images, otherwise known as steganography. It […]

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