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The March 2024 Windows Server updates are causing some domain controllers to crash and restart, according to widespread reports from Windows administrators. Affected servers are freezing and rebooting because of a Local Security Authority Subsystem Service process memory leak introduced with the March 2024 cumulative updates for Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2022.
Hackers hijacked the official contact email for the Belgian Grand Prix event and used it to lure fans to a fake website promising a €50 gift voucher. The Spa Gran Prix is a Formula 1 World Championship race held at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in Stavelot, Belgium.
A new denial-of-service attack dubbed 'Loop DoS' targeting application layer protocols can pair network services into an indefinite communication loop that creates large volumes of traffic. The attack is possible due to a vulnerability, currently tracked as CVE-2024-2169, in the implementation of the UDP protocol, which is susceptible to IP spoofing and does not provide sufficient packet verification.
As the digital wolves dress in sheep's tax forms, Microsoft has thrown a spotlight on a crafty 2024 phishing expedition, unraveled in January, that preys on the unsuspecting herd of early tax filers. The malicious email campaign, purporting to be employees' tax returns, contained an attachment that, when clicked, directs the user to a phony website that looks like a blurred spreadsheet, with a download documents button marked "Confidentials to users[dot]name[at] contoso[dot]com."
GitHub introduced a new AI-powered feature capable of speeding up vulnerability fixes while coding. Known as Code Scanning Autofix and powered by GitHub Copilot and CodeQL, it helps deal with over 90% of alert types in JavaScript, Typescript, Java, and Python.
Ivanti has fixed a critical RCE vulnerability in Ivanti Standalone Sentry that has been reported by researchers with the NATO Cyber Security Centre. The vulnerability affects all supported version of Ivanti Standalone Sentry as well as older, unsupported ones.
US government is urging state officials to band together to improve the cybersecurity of the country's water sector amid growing threats from foreign adversaries. The Environmental Protection Agency announced it is seeking to establish a Water Sector Cybersecurity Task Force to beef up current work to implement "Immediate" solutions to prevent one of the US's most critical services from disruption.
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Ivanti warned customers to immediately patch a critical severity Standalone Sentry vulnerability reported by NATO Cyber Security Centre researchers. Ivanti also fixed a second critical vulnerability in its Neurons for ITSM IT service management solution that enables remote threat actors with access to an account with low privileges to execute commands "In the context of web application's user."
Cybersecurity attacks are inevitable for modern businesses. It is vital that businesses deploy countermeasures to mitigate the damage these attacks cause.