[German]Ppartial success of the investigation by the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) and the Central Office for Combating Cybercrime (ZIT). Their investigators have succeeded in shutting down the illegal marketplace "Kingdom Market" on the Darknet. However, the operators have probably not yet been caught – but for customers of this marketplace, the "trembling" may begin when swuat team show up at the door.
[German]A small addendum from yesterday – the US FBI, together with other law enforcement agencies, has paralyzed the operations of the ALPHV/Blackcat ransomware group, according to the US Department of Justice. There had already been speculation for days that something was up. The FBI has also created a decryption tool, which is now being made available to victims to restore encrypted files.
[German]A small addendum for Windows 11 users. This week I reported on a problem that prevents Windows 11 clients with certain chips from accessing Wi-Fi access in connection with (WPA2 Enterprise Wireless). As of December 19, 2023, Microsoft has confirmed the bug and is rolling back the affected fix from Windows 11 updates via KIR. Here is some information about this bug and the rollback.
[German]The developers of Thunderbird have released another update of the email client to version 115.6.0 on December 19, 2023. It is an update that is intended to fix some bugs and vulnerabilities. Thanks to the readers for their comments. Continue reading
[German]On December 19, 2023, the Mozilla developers released the Firefox update Firefox 121.0. It is a new development branch that also contains security fixes. Continue reading
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[German]For many months, Windows 11 users have been complaining about the behavior of Windows Explorer. Back in September 2023, I described the effect of Explorer spontaneously coming to the foreground and grabbing the focus while working. Now it looks like Microsoft has finally fixed this annoying bug in Windows 11 with an update.
[German]The Swedish EasyPark (or the EasyPark Group) has confirmed, that they was the victim of a cyber attack on December 10, 2023. Nice, EasyPark play its down and wrote, "there was a breach of non-sensitive customer data". "Thankfully", only data such as email address, telephone number, address or parts of card details were stolen. What could have happened if "non-sensitive data" had been stolen. Here is an overview of the facts.
[German]Users of Windows 11 22H2-23H2 who have installed the cumulative security update KB5033375 from December 2023 may run into problems with Wi-Fi access. There are now reports that WPA2 Enterprise Wireless is broken due to the update. Universities are now warning against installing the update and recommending that affected users uninstall it. Microsoft has not yet announced anything about this problem. Thanks to the blog reader for pointing this out.
[German]A small addendum from last week: Microsoft has published a support article and a Printer Metadata Troubleshooter Tool under KB5034510, which is intended to help resolve a problem that occurred at the end of November 2023. At that time, incorrect metadata caused the HP Smart app for HP printers to be installed under Windows and the printer entries to be changed to HP devices.
[German]The list of discontinued Windows features that will be removed at some point is getting longer and longer. After Cortana and the WebDAV client were already declared as deprecated in November 2023, Microsoft also declared the speech recognition introduced in Windows Vista as "deprecated" at the beginning of December 2023. And now the legacy console mode under Windows has also been deprecated and will no longer be installed in future versions of Windows.
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