On Monday, Microsoft said that Iranian cybercriminals are taking advantage of the Zerologon flaw in several hacking campaigns. Successful attacks would let hackers take over servers called domain controllers (DC) that are the foci of most enterprise networks and allow interlopers to gain full control over their targets. The company Continue Reading
A new ransomware vaccine program has been developed that terminates processes that use Microsoft’s vssadmin.exe application to strive to remove volume shadow copies. Windows can make copies of your system and data files every day and save them in snapshots of Shadow volume copy. If they are mistakenly changed Continue Reading
Zerologon is the name that has been given to a vulnerability identified in CVE-2020-1472. Due to the flaw in the logon process, it is called zerologon, where the initialization vector (IV) is set to all zeros all the time, while a random number should still be an initialization vector (IV). Continue Reading
A hacker group formerly linked with North Korea has been found carrying out spear-phishing attacks to compromise the United Nations Security Council officials. Revealed in a UN report last month, the attacks have occurred this year, targeting as many as 28 UN officials, including at least 11 persons representing six Continue Reading
Taiwanese vendor QNAP has urged its customers to update the firmware and apps installed on NAS devices to avoid AgeLocker ransomware infections. Security experts have warned that encoded files can’t be recovered without paying the ransom to the ransomware operators. It’s observed that the new strain of ransomware is targeting Continue Reading
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