[German]Here's a quick information about an information a reader has send me in a private Facebook message. American Express seems to be having service issues since April 1, 2022 – a 2FA login doesn't really work, transactions get stuck. And there's a suspicion that it's related to a cyber attack. It seems clear, at least, that there was a major, worldwide, technical outage on Friday that lasted until today.
[German]The London Police have now announced that two teenagers aged 16 and 17 from the UK will be charged with involvement in activities of the Lapsus$ hacking group. The identities of members of the hacking group had become known a few days ago. Seven youths were briefly detained but then released. Now two of the suspects are in custody.
[German]Microsoft has updated the Chromium Edge browser to version Edge 100.0.1185.29 on 1 April 2022 (no April Fool's joke). This is a maintenance update that closes a number of vulnerabilities and initiates the 100 development branch.
[German]Security researchers from Fortinet have come across a malware campaign that they attribute to the Chinese APT group Deep Panda. The malware uses the Log4Shell vulnerability in VMware Horizon servers to exploit. A backdoor and a new type of rootkit is installed on the infected machines. Here are some notes on the details of this threat.
[German]Microsoft ships with Windows 10/11 an app for communication between Android and Windows. This allows the screen of certain Android devices to be displayed on a Windows 10 system and the smartphone to be accessed. In a new blog post, Microsoft has now announced a name change for these apps.
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[German]Microsoft has issued a Security Update Revisions on March 31, 2022, because CVE-2022-23295 (Raw Image Extension Remote Code Execution Vulnerability) has undergone a revision increment. The reason for Revision of the CVE from March 8, 2021 (which is quoted as important): Added platform designations to Security Updates table because the version of the raw extension is different for Windows 10 operating systems and Windows 11 operating systems. This is an informational change only.
[German]Interesting report from the Wall Street Journal regarding the Russian antivirus provider Kaspersky. The proposal from the White House to sanction Russian security vendor Kaspersky over the invasion of Ukraine is dividing the Biden administration. Some members of the staff fear that sanctioning Kaspersky Lab could increase the risk of a Russian cyber attack. The background is that Kaspersky products are still widely used.
[German]Apple has released two security updates for macOS 12.3.1 (Monterey) and iOS/iPad OS 15.4.1. These patches close vulnerabilities CVE-2022-22675 (in AppleAVD for iOS and macOS) and CVE-2022-22674 in the macOS Intel graphics driver. Apple has received reports that the vulnerabilities are already being actively exploited. Details can be found in the linked articles. Arstechnica has published this article on the topic.
[German]This is a cool thing that Microsoft and the Linux developer community around Linus Torvalds are planning for the future. Up to now, Microsoft's developers have been tinkering with a Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) in Windows, so that the poor Windows users were allowed to practice a bit of Linux in a console. Linux will eventually get a clean Windows subsystem so that Linux users will finally be able to use Windows 32 applications without any problems.
[German]Indiscreet question to the readers of this blog: Do you still have an overview of exactly what Microsoft is currently doing with its Defender? I confess that I got lost a long time ago and get confused when blogging because Windows Defender still slips into my texts instead of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (I hope that's still correct). I have just come across a cheat sheet helping to survive the jungle of Microsoft Defender terms.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
