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US Govt To Ban Export Of Hacking Tools To Authoritarian Regimes The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) today announced new controls that would ban U.S. companies from exporting and reselling software and hardware tools that could be used to fuel authoritarian practices through malicious hacking activities and human rights abuse. The rule will
DDoS Attacks Against Russian Firms Have Almost Tripled in 2021 A report analyzing data from the start of the year concludes that distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on Russian companies have increased 2.5 times compared to the same period last year. A DDoS attack is when an attacker floods a service or network bandwidth with more
Microsoft: Old Windows Updates Now Expire To Improve Speed, Security Microsoft says it regularly evaluates Windows updates for expiration to make the entire update process faster and safer by removing older releases that have already been superseded by newer packages. Installing updates is slower and their size gets incrementally bigger due to the long backlog
Political-themed Actor Using Old MS Office Flaw To Drop Multiple RATs A novel threat actor with unclear motivesis running a crimeware campaign delivering multiple Windows and Android RATs (remote access tools) through the exploitation of CVE-2017-11882. This four-years-old Microsoft Office Equation Editor bug was addressed in the November 2017 patch, but it appears that it’s still available