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As part of the June 2021 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released new cumulative updates for all supported version of Windows, including Windows 10 KB5003637 & KB5003635 for the Windows 10 May 2021 Update and Windows 10 October 2020 Update. The cumulative updates include security fixes for PCs with May 2021 Update, October 2020 Update and May 2020 Update.
A reverse engineer has discovered what is claimed to be "The first known malware targeting Windows containers to compromise cloud environments," a sentence to put any system administrator on edge. Building on work published in December of last year on reverse-engineering Windows containers, security researcher Daniel Prizmant's latest discovery - made during his day job at Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 security arm - looks to punch holes in Kubernetes clusters, and has apparently succeeded in doing so across at least 23 known targets.
Security researchers have discovered the first known malware, dubbed "Siloscope," targeting Windows Server containers to infect Kubernetes clusters in cloud environments. "Siloscape is heavily obfuscated malware targeting Kubernetes clusters through Windows containers," said Unit 42 researcher Daniel Prizmant.
Windows containers have been victimized for over a year by the first known malware to target Windows containers. In a post published on Monday, Prizmant wrote that Siloscape is heavily obfuscated malware targeting Kubernetes clusters through Windows containers, with the main purpose of opening "a backdoor into poorly configured Kubernetes clusters in order to run malicious containers."
A newly identified piece of malware that targets Windows Server containers can execute code on the underlying node and then spread in the Kubernetes cluster, according to a warning from security researchers at Palo Alto Networks. Dubbed Siloscape, the heavily obfuscated malware was designed to install a backdoor into Kubernetes clusters, which can then be used to run malicious containers and perform various other nefarious activities.
New malware active for more than a year is compromising Windows containers to compromise Kubernetes clusters with the end goal of backdooring them and paving the way for attackers to abuse them in other malicious activities. It organizes app containers into pods, nodes, and clusters, with multiple nodes forming clusters managed by a master which coordinates cluster-related tasks such as scaling or updating apps.
From simply changing the accent color to installing a new theme from the Windows Store, Windows 10 provides plenty of options by default. Windows 10 allows you to manage the volume mixer and audio devices from the Settings app.
Microsoft has started training their machine learning algorithms by automatically updating Windows 10 2004 devices to the recently released Windows 10 21H1, the May 2021 feature update. Last month, Microsoft released the Windows 10 21H1 feature update, also known as the May 2021 Update, to users as an optional update displayed when manually performing a 'Check for updates' in Windows Update.
Since 2015, Microsoft has stated that Windows 10 is the last version of the Windows operating, but what is being seen as hints dropped by Microsoft could mean that Windows 11 is around the corner. At the 2015 Microsoft Ignite conference, developer evangelist Jerry Nixon stated that Windows 10 is the last version of Windows.
With the next version of Chromium Edge, Microsoft says it will update the font rendering experience to match the standards of other native Windows apps, such as Calculator, Groove Music, etc. Microsoft has already enabled the new font rendering experience in the Canary builds.