Windows 11 to Deprecate NTLM, Add AI-Powered App Controls and Security Defenses Microsoft on Monday confirmed its plans to deprecate NT LAN Manager (NTLM) in Windows 11 in the second half of the year, as it announced a slew of new security measures to harden the widely-used desktop operating system. Read more…
Major Security Flaws Expose Keystrokes of Over 1 Billion Chinese Keyboard App Users Security vulnerabilities uncovered in cloud-based pinyin keyboard apps could be exploited to reveal users’ keystrokes to nefarious actors. The findings come from the Citizen Lab, which discovered weaknesses in eight of nine apps from vendors like Baidu, Honor, Read more…
Apache Cordova App Harness Targeted in Dependency Confusion Attack Researchers have identified a dependency confusion vulnerability impacting an archived Apache project called Cordova App Harness. Dependency confusion attacks take place owing to the fact that package managers check the public repositories before private registries, thus allowing a threat actor to publish a malicious Read more…
Microsoft Disables MSIX App Installer Protocol Widely Used in Malware Attacks Dec 29, 2023NewsroomMalware / Endpoint Security Microsoft on Thursday said it’s once again disabling the ms-appinstaller protocol handler by default following its abuse by multiple threat actors to distribute malware. “The observed threat actor activity abuses the current implementation Read more…
Hackers Using MSIX App Packages to Infect Windows PCs with GHOSTPULSE Malware Oct 30, 2023NewsroomMalware / Endpoint Security A new cyber attack campaign has been observed using spurious MSIX Windows app package files for popular software such as Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Brave, Grammarly, and Cisco Webex to distribute a Read more…
Arid Viper Targeting Arabic Android Users with Spyware Disguised as Dating App Oct 31, 2023NewsroomCyber War / Malware The threat actor known as Arid Viper (aka APT-C-23, Desert Falcon, or TAG-63) has been attributed as behind an Android spyware campaign targeting Arabic-speaking users with a counterfeit dating app designed to Read more…