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London Borough Of Hackney Suffers ‘Serious’ Cyberattack The city council systems for the London Borough of Hackney have been hit with a ‘serious’ cyberattack that impacts many of their services and IT systems. Not much is known about the attack, but in a press release to the borough’s website, Mayor Philip Glanville stated that it
Windows Update Can Be Abused To Execute Malicious Files The Windows Update client has just been added to the list of living-off-the-land binaries (LoLBins) attackers can use to execute malicious code on Windows systems. LoLBins are Microsoft-signed executables (pre-installed or downloaded) that can be abused by threat actors to evade detection while downloading, installing, or executing malicious code. They can
QBot Uses Windows Defender Antivirus Phishing Bait To Infect PCs The Qbot botnet uses a new template for the distribution of their malware that uses a fake Windows Defender Antivirus theme to trick you into enabling Excel macros. Qbot, otherwise known as QakBot or QuakBot, is Windows malware that steals bank credentials, Windows domain credentials,
Hackers Used VPN Flaws To Access US Govt Elections Support Systems Government-backed hackers have compromised and gained access to US elections support systems by chaining together VPN vulnerabilities and the recent Windows CVE-2020-1472 security flaw. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) says that advanced persistent threat (APT) actors used this vulnerability chaining tactic to