[German]The German based automotive supplier Eberspächer has probably fallen victim to a successful cyber attack on its IT systems. This was confirmed by the company on October 26, 2021, without disclosing any further details. However, since the workforce has been put on short-time work in the meantime, I assume it was a successful ransomware attack.
[German]It looks like the last few days devices from Acer, Lenovo etc. with Windows suddenly refuse to boot with "no bootable device". The cause is not quite clear yet – it could have been a Windows update. Furthermore, it seems that a BIOS update may have reset some settings. Therefore, I would like to ask if anyone else has made the same observations and can say something about the cause.
[German]As of October 12, 2021, the first cumulative updates for Windows 11 have been released, and even though Microsoft has said that machines that do not meet the minimum requirements may not receive updates, many users have reported that such machines have installed the updates without any problems. But a case has been reported to me by a blog reader where Windows 11 guests in Hyper-V can't install updates.
[German]I'm posting a reader's observation about Windows 10 here for information and discussion on the blog. The October 2021 security updates have caused one of my German blog readers to notice that certain features in Windows 10 no longer works.
[German]There is a new vulnerability in the WordPress plugin Ninja Forms that affects all versions up to 3.6.3. An SQL injection is potentially possible via the vulnerability, so that database queries via input fields are conceivable. The plugin provider released version 3.6.4 two days ago.
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[German]The state hacker group Lazarus, attributed to North Korea, seems to have changed its strategy and is trying to attack software supply chains. It is possible that many dependent systems could be infected via such supply chain attacks. Security researchers from Kaspersky have observed corresponding activities in this direction.
[German]Microsoft has started to automatically install its PC Health Check app on Windows 10 systems via Windows Update. The update KB5005463 installs the app automatically. The controversial app can be used to check whether the computer meets the minimum hardware requirements for Windows 11.
[German]As of October 26, 2021 (4th Tuesday of the month, D-Week), Microsoft has released an optional cumulative (preview) update for Windows 10 version 2004 through version 21H1. I haven't found anything on Windows 10 version 1909. Here is an overview of the preview update.
[German]In this blog post, Microsoft accuses state-related Russian hackers from the APT29 group Nobelium of successfully attacking and hacking at least 14 IT service providers in 2021. The attacks consisted of phishing and password spraying campaigns. In the campaigns, the APT29 group (Nobelium) targeted around 140 resellers of cloud and IT services around the world.
[German]Two add-ons named Bypass and Bypass XM, which together have about 455,000 users, have been blocked by Firefox developers. The background is that the add-ons abused the Firefox proxy API to redirect websites or block updates. Here is some information about it.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
