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Microsoft fixes two actively exploited bugs, one used by BlackLotus bootkitFor May 2023 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has delivered fixes for 38 CVE-numbered vulnerabilities, including a patch for a Windows bug and a Secure Boot bypass flaw exploited by attackers in the wild. MSI's firmware, Intel Boot Guard private keys leakedThe cybercriminals who breached Taiwanese multinational MSI last month have apparently leaked the company's private code signing keys on their dark web site.
The company's mea culpa came two days after a cyberextortion gang going by the name Money Message claimed to have stolen MSI source code, BIOS development tools, and private keys. Researchers at vulnerability research company Binarly claim not only to have got hold of the data stolen in the breach, but also to have searched through it for embedded crpyotgraphic keys and come up with numerous hits.
The threat actors behind the ransomware attack on Taiwanese PC maker MSI last month have leaked the company's private code signing keys on their dark website. "Confirmed, Intel OEM private key leaked, causing an impact on the entire ecosystem," Alex Matrosov, founder and CEO of firmware security firm Binarly, said in a tweet over the weekend.
The cybercriminals who breached Taiwanese multinational MSI last month have apparently leaked the company's private code signing keys on their dark web site. MSI is a corporation that develops and sells computers and computer hardware.
An unidentified whistleblower has provided several media organizations with access to leaked documents from NTC Vulkan - a Moscow IT consultancy - that allegedly show how the firm supports Russia's military and intelligence agencies with cyber warfare tools. According to The Guardian, this latest whistleblower chose to distribute the secret Russian documents due to anger over Russia's bloody invasion of Ukraine and a desire to see the information reveal some of what is going on inside Russia.
Thousands of pages of secret documents reveal how Vulkan's engineers have worked for Russian military and intelligence agencies to support hacking operations, train operatives before attacks on national infrastructure, spread disinformation and control sections of the internet. The company's work is linked to the federal security service or FSB, the domestic spy agency; the operational and intelligence divisions of the armed forces, known as the GOU and GRU; and the SVR, Russia's foreign intelligence organisation.
Twitter has taken down internal source code for its platform and tools that was leaked on GitHub for months.On Friday, GitHub complied with a DMCA infringement notice issued by Twitter because the leak exposed proprietary source code and internal tools, which could pose a security risk to Twitter.
Microsoft is working on a new XAML-based gallery view for Windows 11 File Explorer. This new Gallery option can be accessed via the right sidebar of File Explorer, letting you view your pictures in one place.
Money Lover is a finance app allowing users to manage their expenses and budgets that has been downloaded five million times on the Play Store, with the app also available for iOS and Windows. Money Lover allows users to create "Shared wallets" with specific users, like family members or coworkers, to log transactions to collaborate in expense logging and monitoring.
Unidentified threat actors have deployed a new backdoor that borrows its features from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's Hive multi-platform malware suite, the source code of which was released by WikiLeaks in November 2017. "This is the first time we caught a variant of the CIA Hive attack kit in the wild, and we named it xdr33 based on its embedded Bot-side certificate CN=xdr33," Qihoo Netlab 360's Alex Turing and Hui Wang said in a technical write-up published last week.