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Wednesday, 23 March 2022 09:39
Google Message and Phone Dialer App Quietly Collecting User Data without Consent
Written by Sean Kalinich
Once again Google has been caught with their hands in the personal data collection cookie jar. It seems that their Messages and Phone Dialer Apps were sending information about your calls and messages without giving the user any chance to…
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Wednesday, 23 March 2022 08:37
Microsoft Confirms Lapsus$ Attack and Data Theft release TTPs on the Group
Written by Sean Kalinich
Microsoft has finally acknowledged the attack and theft of source code by the Lapsus$ group (tracked as DEV-0537). According to the announcement, a single user account was compromised to gain limited access to their systems and source code. The public…
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Tuesday, 22 March 2022 12:24
Okta, like Microsoft, Is Investigating Claims by Lapsus$ that They Have Been Breached
Written by Sean Kalinich
Earlier today we covered the leak of Microsoft source code by the Lapsus$ group. The group leaked a portion of the data they claim to have stolen in the form of a 37GB dump. This dump has added to the…
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Tuesday, 22 March 2022 09:13
Lapsus$ Leaks Some of the Source Code they Claim they Stole from Microsoft
Written by Sean Kalinich
Yesterday we reported that the source code stealing group, Lapsus$, claimed they have breached and stollen source code from Microsoft. They made the announcement on their Telegram account by posting a screenshot of the projects they claimed to have access…
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Monday, 21 March 2022 18:04
Lapsus$ Claims They have Some Microsoft Azure Source Code, Microsoft is Investigating the Claim
Written by Sean Kalinich
The Lapsus$ group has been in the news recently for theft of source code form some high-profile targets. These targets have included companies like NVIDIA, Samsung, Vodafone, and Ubisoft. The NVIDIA event was noteworthy as it included a claim that…
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Monday, 21 March 2022 14:41
New Browser in the Browser Attack Improves on Phishing Campaigns
Written by Sean Kalinich
Phishing, regular and spear, is a very common method of compromising accounts and gaining access to a network. In many incidents, the initial compromise can be traced back to a compromised account via some sort of phishing message. This happens…
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Thursday, 17 March 2022 09:16
SolarWinds Says Remove Web Help Desk from Public Access to Avoid Possible Attack
Written by Sean Kalinich
Recently a SolarWinds Web Help Desk client reported an attempted attack on their externally facing Web Help Desk instance. The attack was caught by their EDR system which was able to block the attempt. However, the reported attack, after a…
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Thursday, 17 March 2022 07:26
Open Source Community Takes a Hit as One Developer Pushes Destructive Content as a Form of Protest
Written by Sean Kalinich
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine we have seen a massive increase in what can only be called cyber warfare. This battle is not just being fought at the state level though. Even APT groups have gotten…
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Wednesday, 16 March 2022 12:40
MFA Flaw used by State Threat Actors to Move Around your Network
Written by Sean Kalinich
Multi-Factor Authentication is often seen as an answer to account compromise, or at least a partial answer to this issue. The problem is that MFA is that while it can help with account compromise, it is certainly not the end…
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Wednesday, 16 March 2022 08:53
Microsoft Says Ads in Windows 11 File Explorer Were Not Meant for Us to See
Written by Sean Kalinich
Yesterday we reported that insider builds of Microsoft’s Windows 11 were displaying ads for other Microsoft services inside File Explorer. Like most people, we felt this was not a good thing and the news went around the internet at a…
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Tuesday, 15 March 2022 13:20
Phishing Campaign Targeting Ukraine uses Fake AntiMalware Update
Written by Sean Kalinich
Ukrainian Security Officials are warning of an active phishing campaign. The campaign involves emails that impersonate government agencies and include links to what appear to be critical security updates. The payload of the campaign delivers Cobalt Strike and a few…
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Tuesday, 15 March 2022 10:02
Microsoft Testing Ads in File Explorer as Part of Preview Builds of Windows 11
Written by Sean Kalinich
Microsoft, famous for bad marketing moves, is looking to make another one. In this case the mistake has not hit the general public but is in a preview build of Windows 11. The mistake is shoveling ads to people for…
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Thursday, 10 March 2022 10:06
New Report Shows WordPress Sites leave 30% of Critical Vulnerabilities Unpatched.
Written by Sean Kalinich
PatchStack has pushed out a report that shows that a shocking 30% of vulnerabilities in WordPress sites are left unpatched. This is not to say that people are not patching (they are not), but the report illustrates that vendors for…
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Thursday, 10 March 2022 08:26
Emotet’s Comeback Shows no Sign of Slowing as Bot Number Exceeds 100,000
Written by Sean Kalinich
Emotet, (not to be confused with Imhotep the ancient Egyptian Polymath) was originally identified in 2014 and quickly became one of the top threats of the decade. After an early start as a banking trojan, the group amassed a huge…
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Wednesday, 09 March 2022 13:25
16 New Vulnerabilities Found in HP UEFI Firmware Implementations by Binarly
Written by Sean Kalinich
The Security Group Binarly has disclosed 16 high-severity vulnerabilities in different implementations of UEFI firmware in HP Enterprise devices. The list of affected devices includes Laptops, Desktops, POS (point-of-sale) and edge computing nodes. The vulnerabilities range in severity from 7.5…
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Tuesday, 08 March 2022 11:58
Another Linux Kernel Bug Found that can allow an Unauthenticated user Root Privileges
Written by Sean Kalinich
Linux, often thought of as a more secure alternative to Microsoft, has not had an easy year. We have seen vulnerabilities that affect the iSCSI subsystem, the Extended Berkeley Packet Filter, the Polkit pkexec component bug and now two Kernel…
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