How ransomware operators try to stay under the radar

An often heard remark is that when your security solution notices a ransomware attack, it’s already too late. Theres a lot of truth in that, if you consider the encryption process to be the ransomware attack. However, these days encryption is just a part of many ransomware attacks. Some of the...

Update now! Microsoft patches a whopping 130 vulnerabilities

Its that time of the month again. For the July 2023 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has issued security updates for 130 vulnerabilities. Nine of the vulnerabilities are rated as critical and four of them are known to be actively exploited. The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has...

Old certificate, new signature: Open-source tools forge signature timestamps on Windows drivers

Cisco Talos has observed threat actors taking advantage of a Windows policy loophole that allows the signing and loading of cross-signed kernel mode drivers with signature timestamp prior to July 29, 2015. Actors are leveraging multiple open-source tools that alter the signing date of kernel mode...

Microsoft-Signed Drivers Helped Hackers Breach System Defenses

By Habiba Rashid Researchers at Sophos X-Ops Rapid Response RR, Mandiant, and SentinelOne have confirmed Microsoft's blunder. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Microsoft-Signed Drivers Helped Hackers Breach System Defenses...

Ransomware Attackers Use Microsoft-Signed Drivers to Gain Access to Systems

Microsoft on Tuesday disclosed it took steps to implement blocking protections and suspend accounts that were used to publish malicious drivers that were certified by its Windows Hardware Developer Program. The tech giant said its investigation revealed the activity was restricted to a number of...

Dell pre-installed SupportAssist components DLL hijacking vulnerability, worldwide more than 1 billion devices face a cyber-attack risk-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

SupportAssist is a powerful support application helps to ensure that the user of the system is always running optimally, take the initiative to find the problem and allows you to run the diagnostic program and the driver update scan. Recently, however, researchers have found that this tool softwa...

Microsoft Windows Multiple Vulnerabilities (KB4467702)

This host is missing a critical security update according to Microsoft 4467702 SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Microsoft Windows Multiple Vulnerabilities (KB4467697)

This host is missing a critical security update according to Microsoft KB4467697. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Microsoft Windows Multiple Vulnerabilities (KB4467696)

This host is missing a critical security update according to Microsoft KB4467696 SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Windows Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability

A security feature bypass exists when Windows incorrectly validates kernel driver signatures. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could bypass security features and load improperly signed drivers into the kernel. In an attack scenario, an attacker could bypass security...

Microsoft Windows Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems released by the American company Microsoft. Microsoft Windows suffers from a security feature bypass vulnerability.Windows Secure Boot incorrectly loads a boot policy affected by this vulnerability. An attacker who successfully exploited this...

Microsoft Windows Security Bypass Vulnerability (CNVD-2016-04962)

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems released by the American company Microsoft. A security bypass vulnerability exists in Microsoft Windows. A local attacker could exploit the vulnerability to disable code integrity checking, allowing signed test executables and drivers to be loade...