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A Chinese-speaking hacking group exploited a zero-day vulnerability in the Windows Win32k kernel driver to deploy a previously unknown remote access trojan. The malware, known as MysterySnail, was found by Kaspersky security researchers on multiple Microsoft Servers between late August and early September 2021.
The October 2021 Patch Update is now rolling out and Microsoft has published cumulative updates KB5006670 for recent versions of Windows 10. The update is now rolling out via Windows Update, WSUS, and the Microsoft Update Catalog with numerous bug fixes and performance enhancements.
Brother is warning that many of their printers may no longer work or display errors when using a USB connection in Windows 11. Brother states that you can ignore the error, and the document should print successfully.
Microsoft is working on adding support for Bronze Bit attacks detection to Microsoft Defender for Identity to make it easier for Security Operations teams to detect attempts to abuse a Windows Kerberos security bypass bug tracked as CVE-2020-17049. Microsoft Defender for Identity is a cloud-based security solution that leverages on-premises Active Directory signals.
Microsoft is blocking Windows 11 upgrades if customers use applications that create registry keys using some non-ASCII characters. "Compatibility issues have been found between apps using some non-ASCII characters in their registry keys or subkeys and Windows 11," Microsoft explains.
Windows 11 is now available for devices with supported hardware features. If you've already upgraded to Windows 11 and you're looking for some great apps for your Windows 11 device, here's a list of easy-to-use open-source and free app.
Microsoft has released the final version of its security configuration baseline settings for Windows 11, downloadable today using the Microsoft Security Compliance Toolkit. When enabling the Microsoft Security Baseline for Windows 11, Redmond urges admins to ensure that Microsoft Defender for Endpoint's tamper protection feature, which adds additional protection against human-operated ransomware attacks, is enabled.
For some people, this is disappointing as they prefer the new updated, while others are happy as the new Windows 11 taskbar is missing some features from the Windows 10 taskbar. Get-appxpackage -all *shellexperience* -packagetype bundle |%. This PowerShell command was used to resolve Start Menu problems in Windows 10 and should apply to Windows 11.
AMD says it observed performance hits of up to 15% on Windows 11-compatible AMD processors when using some applications. Microsoft and AMD are investigating two separate issues affecting AMD CPUs' performance on Windows 11.
Windows 11 users report a strange upgrade experience where the operating system continues to show the Windows 10 taskbar, while everything else uses the new Windows 11 user interface. After upgrading to Windows 11, some users have reported bizarre [1, 2] results where the new operating system becomes a hybrid of Windows 10 and Windows 11.