- UK: Liz Truss’ and Cabinet Ministers’ mobile numbers are being sold online for £6.49
October 2, 2022
The personal mobile phone numbers of the Prime Minister and 25 of her Cabinet Ministers are being sold on the internet, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. They can be accessed on a shady US website charging just £6.49 for access to the information, which cyber experts warn could be used by China and Russia to ...
- Analyzing attacks using the Exchange vulnerabilities CVE-2022-41040 and CVE-2022-41082
October 1, 2022
Added information about Exploit:Script/ExchgProxyRequest.A, Microsoft Defender AV’s robust detection for exploit behavior related to this threat. Microsoft also removed a section on MFA as a mitigation, which was included in a prior version of this blog as standard guidance. Microsoft is aware of limited targeted attacks using two reported zero-day vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, ...
- Lazarus hackers abuse Dell driver bug using new FudModule rootkit
October 1, 2022
The notorious North Korean hacking group ‘Lazarus’ was seen installing a Windows rootkit that abuses a Dell hardware driver in a Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver attack. The spear-phishing campaign unfolded in the autumn of 2021, and the confirmed targets include an aerospace expert in the Netherlands and a political journalist in Belgium. According to ESET, which ...
- Microsoft suspends new sales in Russia
March 4, 2022
Microsoft has now committed over $35 million to support humanitarian assistance and relief efforts for Ukraine. This includes more than $18 million worth of Microsoft technology to help organizations such as the Polish Humanitarian Action respond to critical needs and others providing services on the ground. Microsoft employee donations are being matched by the company 2:1, ...
- Hackers take over diplomat’s email, target Russian deputy minister
January 12, 2022
Hackers believed to work for the North Korean government have compromised the email account of a staff member of Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MID) and deployed spear-phishing attacks against the country’s diplomats in other regions. One of the targets was Sergey Alexeyevich Ryabko, the deputy foreign minister for the Russian Federation, among other things responsible ...