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Unofficial fixes released for 0-day issue in Windows Mobile Device Management Service

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyNovember 30, 2021

Unofficial fixes released for 0-day issue in Windows Mobile Device Management Service Access to Work or School. The problem is present on devices running Windows 10, version 1809 (and later). The bug is related to a bypass of the information disclosure patch (CVE-2021-24084)

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Cybersecurity researchers published an exploit for Windows that allows escalating privileges

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyNovember 23, 2021

Bleeping Computer reported that cybersecurity researcher has published an exploit for a new zero-day vulnerability that can be used to escalate local privileges in all supported versions of Windows, including Windows 10, Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022. The journalists

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VirusTotal said that almost 95% of ransomware target Windows

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyOctober 20, 2021

VirusTotal specialists presented a large report on the recent ransomware activity and said that almost 95% of ransomware targets Windows. To do this, experts analyzed 80 million samples of ransomware. It turned out that in 2020 and the first half of 2021, a total of 130

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New Issues Found with Windows Print Spooler

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyJuly 16, 2021

Last month, cybersecurity experts inadvertently unveiled a PoC exploit for a dangerous problem related to the Windows Print Spooler service, which is a universal interface between OS, applications and local or network printers, allowing application developers to submit print

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Exploit for dangerous PrintNightmare problem in Windows has been published online

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyJune 30, 2021

A PoC exploit for the dangerous PrintNightmare vulnerability in Windows Print Spooler (spoolsv.exe) has been published online. This bug has ID CVE-2021-1675 and was patched by Microsoft just a couple of weeks ago, as part of June’s Patch Tuesday. Windows Print Spooler

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Hackers Bypass Firewalls Using Windows Feature

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyApril 2, 2021

Hackers now bypass firewalls using a legitimate component of the Windows operating system called Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS), installing malware into it. In 2020, hospitals, medical centres and nursing homes suffered from an ever-changing phishing campaign

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Google experts exposed sophisticated hacking campaign against Windows and Android users

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyJanuary 14, 2021

Google published a large report detailing how they exposed a sophisticated hacking campaign that was discovered back in early 2020. The campaign targeted Android and Windows users, and attackers exploited for attacks four zero-day vulnerabilities. The researchers say the

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Microsoft has released an update to remove Adobe Flash from Windows

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyOctober 28, 2020

As you know, very soon, on December 31, 2020, support for Adobe Flash Player will be completely discontinued, after which it will no longer be supported by all modern browsers. Now Microsoft has released an update to remove Adobe Flash from Windows. Let me remind you that

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Microsoft developers will stop supporting classic Edge and IE 11

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyAugust 19, 2020

Microsoft said it would stop supporting classic Edge and IE 11. The company has published a schedule for the end of support for Internet Explorer 11 and Edge (a version based on its own engine). The whole process will be carried out in stages: from November 30, 2020, support

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On June “Patch Tuesday” Microsoft fixed 129 vulnerabilities in its products

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyJune 10, 2020

“Patch Tuesday” this month became the largest in the history of Microsoft: were fixed at once 129 vulnerabilities. March 2020 with 115 corrections is in second place, and 113 corrections in April 2020 arein a third place. 100 absolutely “ridiculous” Microsoft patches were