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Microsoft has confirmed that the April 2024 Windows security updates break VPN connections across client and server platforms. The company explains on the Windows health dashboard that "Windows devices might face VPN connection failures after installing the April 2024 security update or the April 2024 non-security preview update."
Microsoft has enabled Start menu ads in the optional KB5036980 preview cumulative update for Windows 11 22H2 and 23H2. The company first announced that it was working on adding ads to the Windows 11 Start menu just 12 days ago when it began rolling out this feature to Insiders in the Beta Channel to help users discover "Great apps" available in the Microsoft Store. While it also said that it regularly tries "Out new experiences and concepts that may never get released with Windows Insiders to get feedback," Redmond has now turned on the Start menu ads for all customers who install the optional April 2024 non-security preview update.
For nearly four years and perhaps even longer, Forest Blizzard has been using a custom tool that exploits a specific vulnerability in Windows Print Spooler service. Dubbed GooseEgg, the tool is a launcher application that can spawn other applications with SYSTEM-level permissions, thus helping the hackers to perform remote code execution, install backdoors, steal credentials, and more.
The Russia-linked nation-state threat actor tracked as APT28 weaponized a security flaw in the Microsoft Windows Print Spooler component to deliver a previously unknown custom malware called...
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Microsoft warns that the Russian APT28 threat group exploits a Windows Print Spooler vulnerability to escalate privileges and steal credentials and data using a previously unknown hacking tool called GooseEgg. APT28 has been using this tool to exploit the CVE-2022-38028 vulnerability "Since at least June 2020 and possibly as early as April 2019.".
Microsoft warns that the Russian APT28 threat group exploits a Windows Print Spooler vulnerability to escalate privileges and steal credentials and data using a previously unknown hacking tool called GooseEgg. APT28 designed this tool to target the CVE-2022-38028 vulnerability reported by the U.S. National Security Agency, which Redmond fixed during the Microsoft October 2022 Patch Tuesday.
New research has found that the DOS-to-NT path conversion process could be exploited by threat actors to achieve rootkit-like capabilities to conceal and impersonate files, directories, and...
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BLACK HAT ASIA Researchers at US/Israeli infosec outfit SafeBreach last Friday discussed flaws in Microsoft and Kaspersky security products that can potentially allow the remote deletion of files. Speaking at the Black Hat Asia conference in Singapore, SafeBreach's VP of Security Research Tomer Bar and security researcher Shmuel Cohen explained that Microsoft Defender and Kaspersky's Endpoint Detection and Response can be made to detect false positive indicators of malicious files - and then to delete them.