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Technical details have emerged about two now-patched security flaws in Microsoft Windows that could be chained by threat actors to achieve remote code execution on the Outlook email service sans any user interaction. “An attacker on the internet can chain the vulnerabilities together to create a full, zero-click remote code execution (RCE) exploit against Outlook […]
The Chinese-backed Hafnium hacking group has been linked to a piece of a new malware that’s used to maintain persistence on compromised Windows environments. The threat actor is said to have targeted entities in the telecommunication, internet service provider and data services sectors from August 2021 to February 2022, expanding from the initial victimology patterns […]
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a novel technique adopted by a threat actor to deliberately evade detection with the help of malformed digital signatures of its malware payloads. “Attackers created malformed code signatures that are treated as valid by Windows but are not able to be decoded or checked by OpenSSL code — which is used […]
Security researchers have disclosed an unpatched weakness in Microsoft Windows Platform Binary Table (WPBT) affecting all Windows-based devices since Windows 8 that could be potentially exploited to install a rootkit and compromise the integrity of devices. “These flaws make every Windows system vulnerable to easily-crafted attacks that install fraudulent vendor-specific tables,” researchers from Eclypsium said […]
A day after releasing Patch Tuesday updates, Microsoft acknowledged yet another remote code execution vulnerability in the Windows Print Spooler component, adding that it’s working to remediate the issue in an upcoming security update. Tracked as CVE-2021-36958 (CVSS score: 7.3), the unpatched flaw is the latest to join a list of bugs collectively known as […]
A proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit related to a remote code execution vulnerability affecting Windows Print Spooler and patched by Microsoft earlier this month was briefly published online before being taken down. Identified as CVE-2021-1675, the security issue could grant remote attackers full control of vulnerable systems. Print Spooler manages the printing process in Windows, including loading […]
Microsoft has released a new update for its recently launched Windows Terminal preview app. In what appears to be the biggest update to the app, the Windows-maker company has added plenty of exciting features. Microsoft released the Windows Terminal application during its annual developer conference this year, and it combines the best of Command Prompt […]
It seems like Microsoft will be solving one of the biggest problems Windows user face — “insufficient storage space” in the next Windows 10 19H1 update. With the 1903 feature update, coming in April this year, Microsoft has announced the introduction of a feature called “Reserve Storage” for managing storage on Windows. Under this, Microsoft […]
Recently, we witnessed how Google is moving forward with the idea of Dark Mode in the Chrome browser. As it happens to be, you can already turn on the Dark theme on Google Chrome right now. Since the feature is long overdue, Google developers created a command flag through which other developers get an early hands-on of […]
Last Tuesday was nothing special for the White House. The U.S. President Donald Trump had a meeting in the Situation Room with Republican and Democratic congressional leaders, where Vice President Mike Pence was also present. All things were going as usual, until TechCrunch’s Zach Whittaker noticed something peculiar in a snapshot of the meeting. The picture […]
We often come across virus alerts on our devices warning us of possible virus infection devices that could be prone to. However, those alerts could, in reality, be scams running for distorting money from us. According to a report by The New York Times, one out of five people who receive such alert messages tend to […]
Code-execution flaw is triggered by plugging a booby-trapped USB into vulnerable PCs. One of the Microsoft Windows vulnerabilities used to spread the Stuxnet worm that targeted Iran remained the most widely exploited software bug in 2015 and 2016 even though the bug was patched years earlier, according to a report published by antivirus provider Kaspersky […]
Short Bytes: There is an option in Windows operating system which can display flashes on your desktop when the system sound is played. You can enable Turn on visual notifications for sounds in the Ease of Access Center in Windows 10, 7, 8.1, and 8. There are many system apps in Microsoft Windows which produce […]