24 Nov, 2024

Windows Downdate tool lets you ‘unpatch’ Windows systems

SafeBreach security researcher Alon Leviev has released his Windows Downdate tool, which can be used for downgrade attacks that reintroduce old vulnerabilities in up-to-date Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server systems. In such attacks, threat actors force up-to-date targeted devices to revert to older software versions, thus reintroducing security vulnerabilities that can be exploited to compromise […]

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Park’N Fly notifies 1 million customers of data breach

Park’N Fly is warning that a data breach exposed the personal and account information of 1 million customers in Canada after hackers breached its network. The threat actors breached the Park’N Fly networks through stolen VPN credentials in mid-July and stole data from the company. On August 1, the company determined that customer information was also […]

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Microsoft Sway abused in massive QR code phishing campaign

​A massive QR code phishing campaign abused Microsoft Sway, a cloud-based tool for creating online presentations, to host landing pages to trick Microsoft 365 users into handing over their credentials. The attacks were spotted by Netskope Threat Labs in July 2024 after detecting a dramatic 2,000-fold increase in attacks exploiting Microsoft Sway to host phishing […]

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TFT Patch Notes 14.17 – New Game Mode, Balance Changes

With 14.17 we’re buffing what’s been low on magic while lowering the impact of our core items.Just like magic, there’s a new patch! With 14.17 we’re buffing just about everything that hasn’t been able to make enough mayhem, whether that’s champions, Augments, or traits. Notice how I left out items there? That’s cause we’re also […]

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Seattle-Tacoma Airport IT systems down due to a cyberattack

The Seattle-Tacoma International Airport has confirmed that a cyberattack is likely behind the ongoing IT systems outage that disrupted reservation check-in systems and delayed flights over the weekend. SEA-TAC is Seattle’s primary international airport and the busiest in the Pacific Northwest region. In 2023, it served almost 51 million passengers. The airport is a major hub […]

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Versa fixes Director zero-day vulnerability exploited in attacks

Versa Networks has fixed a zero-day vulnerability exploited in the wild that allows attackers to upload malicious files by exploiting an unrestricted file upload flaw in the Versa Director GUI. Versa Director is a platform designed to help managed service providers simplify the design, automation, and delivery of SASE services, offering essential management, monitoring, and […]

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Microsoft: Exchange Online mistakenly tags emails as malware

Microsoft is investigating an Exchange Online false positive issue causing emails containing images to be wrongly tagged as malicious and sent to quarantine. “Users’ email messages containing images may be incorrectly flagged as malware and quarantined,” Microsoft said in a service alert posted on the Microsoft 365 admin center two hours ago. “We’re reviewing service monitoring telemetry […]

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Patelco notifies 726,000 customers of ransomware data breach

Patelco Credit Union warns customers it suffered a data breach after personal data was stolen in a RansomHub ransomware attack earlier this year. Though the organization did not name the attackers, the RansomHub gang claimed responsibility on August 15, 2024, when they published all of the stolen data on their extortion portal. Patelco is an […]

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Google tags a tenth Chrome zero-day as exploited this year

Today, Google revealed that it patched the tenth zero-day exploited in the wild in 2024 by attackers or security researchers during hacking contests. Tracked as CVE-2024-7965 and reported by a security researcher known only as TheDog, the now-patched high-severity vulnerability is caused by a bug in the compiler backend when selecting the instructions to generate for just-in-time (JIT) compilation. Google […]

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Chinese Volt Typhoon hackers exploited Versa zero-day to breach ISPs, MSPs

The Chinese state-backed hacking group Volt Typhoon is behind attacks that exploited a zero-day flaw in Versa Director to upload a custom webshell to steal credentials and breach corporate networks. Versa Director is a management platform ISPs and MSPs use to manage virtual WAN connections created using SD-WAN services. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2024-39717 […]

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