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Cryptic Rumblings Ahead of First 2020 Patch Tuesday

Krebs on Security

is slated to release a software update on Tuesday to fix an extraordinarily serious security vulnerability in a core cryptographic component present in all versions of Windows. According to sources, the vulnerability in question resides in a Windows component known as crypt32.dll Sources tell KrebsOnSecurity that Microsoft Corp.

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Weekly Update 372

Troy Hunt

Yes, I'm running windows. Seemed to be a lot of time this week gone on talking all things laptops, and there are clearly some very differing views on the topic. Yes, the Lenovo is Chinese. No, I'm not worried about Superfish. No, I don't want a Framework laptop.

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North Korea-linked threat actors target cybersecurity experts with a zero-day

Security Affairs

The cyberspies used to propose a collaboration with a security researcher on topics of mutual interest. ” North Korea-linked threat actors also used a custom standalone Windows tool that has the stated goal of ‘download debugging symbols from Microsoft, Google, Mozilla and Citrix symbol servers for reverse engineers.’

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Russia-linked APT targets Ukraine by exploiting the Follina RCE vulnerability

Security Affairs

The issue, tracked as CVE-2022-30190, impacts the Microsoft Windows Support Diagnostic Tool (MSDT). The malspam messages use the topic “LIST of links to interactive maps,” according to the CERT-UA, more malicious emails reached more than 500 recipients.

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Earth Krahang APT breached tens of government organizations worldwide

Security Affairs

Analysis of the backdoors uploaded on VirusTotal revealed that threat actors utilized geopolitical topics as bait. In addition, we found that the threat actor employed both Windows and Linux versions of XDealer to target different systems.” “Earth Krahang abuses the trust between governments to conduct their attacks. .

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Donating BAT to Have I Been Pwned with Brave Browser

Troy Hunt

It also has some cool built-in stuff like the ability to create a new private browsing window in Tor rather than just your classic incognito window that might ditch all your cookies and browsing history but still connect to the internet directly from your own IP address.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 362 by Pierluigi Paganini

Security Affairs

If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here. T-Mobile confirms Lapsus$ had access its systems Are you using Java 15/16/17 or 18 in production? Patch them now!