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Iranian Company Cloudzy Accused of Aiding Cybercriminals and Nation-State Hackers

Services offered by an obscure Iranian company known as Cloudzy are being leveraged by multiple threat actors, including cybercrime groups and nation-state crews. “Although Cloudzy is incorporated in the United States, it almost certainly operates out of Tehran, Iran – in possible violation of U.S. sanctions – under the direction of someone going by the […]

Microsoft Fixes 2 BlueKeep-Style Bugs Targeting Windows 7 To Windows 10

Earlier in May, Microsoft disclosed that it has patched a “wormable” bug, dubbed BlueKeep, in the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). With an estimation of exposing over 1 million Windows devices, BlueKeep (CVE-2019-0708) could be exploited by an attacker to perform remote code execution. Even the US agency NSA came forward and urged users to update […]

4 New BlueKeep-like ‘Wormable’ Windows Remote Desktop Flaws Discovered

If you are using any supported version of the Windows operating system, stop everything and install the latest security updates from Microsoft immediately. Windows operating system contains four new critical wormable, remote code execution vulnerabilities in Remote Desktop Services, similar to the recently patched ‘BlueKeep‘ RDP vulnerability. Discovered by Microsoft’s security team itself, all four […]