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Microsoft Starts Killing off WMIC in Windows, will Thwart Attacks Microsoft is moving forward with removing the Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC) tool, wmic.exe, starting with the latest Windows 11 preview builds in the Dev channel. WMIC.exe is a built-in Microsoft program that allows command-line access to the Windows Management Instrumentation. Using this tool, administrators
Hacking Group ‘ModifiedElephant’ Evaded Discovery for a Decade For a decade, an advanced persistent threat (APT) actor tracked as ModifiedElephant has been using tactics that allowed it to operate in utmost secrecy, without cybersecurity companies connecting the dots between attacks. This particular group of hackers employs readily-available trojans through spear-phishing, and has been targeting human rights
Apple Patches New Zero-day Exploited to Hack iPhones, iPads, Macs Apple has released security updates to fix a new zero-day vulnerability exploited in the wild by attackers to hack iPhones, iPads, and Macs. The zero-day patched today is tracked as CVE-2022-22620 [1, 2] and is a WebKit Use After Free issue that could lead to OS crashes and
Qbot, Lokibot Malware Switch Back to Windows Regsvr32 Delivery Malware distributors have turned to an older trick known as Squiblydoo to spread Qbot and Lokibot via Microsoft Office document using regsvr32.exe. A report from the threat research team at security analytics platform Uptycs shows that the use of regsvr32.exe has been spiking for the past couple of