[German]I just got a user information on my desk that there are problems with the user login in Microsoft Outlook "since the last update" (probably from June 2022). Problem seems to be that the program can no longer distinguish between two online accounts. Here is the information I have so far.
Citrix has provided a fix for the issue in that MS Teams calls do not work in its VDA environment. Users are unable to complete a call from Microsoft Teams.
[German]One more quick piece of info from this week's post. Microsoft has released some security description revisions as of June 14, 2022, which I'll just post here on the blog.
[German]Microsoft is investigating another issue related to the June 2022 updates. It is said to affect Windows clients running on the ARM platform. On these devices, logging in to certain services is no longer possible after installing the June 14, 2022 security updates. This may also affect OneDrive, Microsoft Teams and Outlook.com.
[German]In a joint action of international investigators, the Russian RSOCKS botnet was dismantled. Authorities from the United States, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom were involved in the operation. This bot network was rented to cybercriminals for years at prices ranging from $30 to $200 per day to launch cyberattacks and phishing waves on targets around the world.
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[German]There are mixed opinions about the Microsoft accounts required for online services and Windows. If there are problems with the account, the user is locked out, especially if the account has been deactivated. Now a reader told me about a new case where he can't change the password because the confirmation mail is delivered too late.
[German]The security updates released on June 14, 2022, closed numerous vulnerabilitiesholes. But there are also a number of issues, for example with VMs and when using ESET security solutions. I had given a first review in the blog post June 2022 patch day review: Windows update issues, Intel vulnerability, documentation fails. But there are more problems, for example in the area of wifi, VPN, hotspot or with Outlook links. Here is some information on the topic.
[German]Travis CI is a very popular service among software developers, which is used to create and test many software projects. The service is part of the software supply chain of many software solutions. Moreover, Travis CI's credentials and login information are linked to popular cloud providers such as GitHub, AWS, Docker Hub, and many others. Team Nautilus, Aqua Security's research unit specializing in the cloud-native technology stack, has now discovered a vulnerability in the free version of the Travis CI API.
[German]Often, the details of a ransomware infection remain obscure to outsiders. This week, I received a briefing from security services provider Varonis, whose security team has unraveled the course of an attack using the Hive ransomware. The Hive group operates as a ransomware-as-a-service provider and has been responsible for numerous attacks. In the current case, vulnerabilities in Exchange servers were exploited.
[German]Today another piece of information for administrators of Microsoft Exchange servers who this week suddenly receive an Error 1008 on Exchange 2016 or 2019 in the event logs, which is triggered by the Mitigation Service. A blog reader brought this to my attention the other day because he suddenly experienced the issue on Microsoft Exchange Server 2019. The background is a Microsoft "Microsoft Exchange XML Signing" certificate that expired on June 9, 2022. The problem should have been fixed by Microsoft in the meantime.
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