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FireEye Finds New Malware Likely Linked To SolarWinds Hackers FireEye discovered a new “sophisticated second-stage backdoor” on the servers of an organization compromised by the threat actors behind the SolarWinds supply-chain attack. The new malware is dubbed Sunshuttle, and it was “uploaded by a U.S.-based entity to a public malware repository in August 2020.” FireEye researchers Lindsay Smith,
VMware Releases Fix For Severe View Planner RCE Vulnerability VMware has addressed a high severity unauthenticated RCE vulnerability in VMware View Planner, allowing attackers to abuse servers running unpatched software for remote code execution. View Planner is a free tool for benchmarking desktop client and server-side performance in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure environments. The vulnerability was discovered
Hijacking Traffic To Microsoft’s Windows.com With Bitflipping A researcher was able to “bitsquat” Microsoft’s windows.com domain by cybersquatting variations of windows.com. However, this technique differs from cases where typosquatting domains are used for phishing activities in that it requires no action on the victim’s part. This is due to the nature of a concept known as bit