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Microsoft: Windows 7 Recovery App Fails After January Updates Microsoft says Windows 7 recovery discs created using the Control Panel Backup and Restore app will fail to start after installing Windows updates released since January 11, 2022. However, while Microsoft did not explain why this happens, it said the recovery discs would work on systems
Malicious Microsoft Excel A dd-ins used to deliver RAT malware Researchers report a new version of the JSSLoader remote access trojan being distributed malicious Microsoft Excel addins. The particular RAT (remote access trojan) has been circulated in the wild since December 2020, linked to the financially-motivated Russian hacking group FIN7, also known as “Carbanak.” JSSLoader
Microsoft: Recent Windows Server Updates Cause DNS Issues Microsoft has addressed a new known issue causing DNS stub zones loading failures that could lead to DNS resolution issues on Windows Server 2019 systems. DNS stub zones are copies of DNS zones containing resource records needed to determine the authoritative DNS servers for a specific zone
Russia Bans Google News for “unreliable” info on war in Ukraine Roskomnadzor, Russia’s telecommunications regulator, has banned Alphabet’s news aggregator service Google News and blocked access to the news.google.com domain for providing access to “unreliable information” on the ongoing war in Ukraine. “Based on a request from the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office, Roskomnadzor has restricted