A free unofficial patch has been released for an actively exploited zero-day that allows files signed with malformed signatures to bypass Mark-of-the-Web security warnings in Windows 10 and Windows 11.
Last weekend, BleepingComputer reported that threat actors were using stand-alone JavaScript files to install the Magniber ransomware on victims’ devices.
When a user downloads a file from the Internet, Microsoft adds a Mark-of-the-Web flag to the file, causing the operating system to display security warnings when the file is launched, as shown below.
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Source: Bleeping Computer