[German]Microsoft has now released Application Guard for Office 365 users who have booked certain licenses, effective January 27, 2021. This is according to an announcement in the tech community. This security feature allows Office documents to be opened in a virtualized environment.
[German]ACROS Security has released a micropatch for a Local Privilege Escalation 0-day vulnerability in Windows Installer for its 0patch agent. Here is some information on what is involved.
[German]Next success for law enforcement, as they have seized the servers of the Netwalker ransomware gang's darknet website and charged a "affiliate" from Canada, possibly the head of the gang, from Canada (whether he was arrested is not entirely clear to me, but I suspect he was).
[German]Has anyone had this happen before? When trying to install Microsoft Office 365, the Edge browser opens with the login page and then SmartScreen shows it as unsafe?
[German]Currently, it's reported, that the Emotet malware will automatically uninstall itself from infected systems on April 25, 2021 (1st I reported March) at 12:00 a.m CET. However, it is unclear to me who exactly is behind this action – the German BKA and the Dutch police are mentioned. Here is the information that has just been leaked via security researchers and Europol.
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[German]Security researchers at Qualsys have discovered a vulnerability (CVE-2021-3156) in the BSD/Linux Sudo command. Due to a heap overflow, attackers with normal privileges could achieve privilege escalation to root. However, updates for the vulnerability are now available from major Linux distributions.
[German]Microsoft has released various Intel microcode updates for Windows 10 version 1903 to 20H2 as of January 26, 2021. For other versions, however, the microcode updates remain unchanged. EP has linked the KB articles within this comment.
[German]The German Federal Criminal Police Office (Bundeskriminalamt) and the Frankfurt General Prosecutor's Office (Generalstaatsanwaltschaft) have initiated a "takedown" of the Emotet infrastructure internationally. The Emotet servers were taken over and then the infrastructure was shut down.
[German]Apple has just released iOS 14.4 and iPadOS 14.4 as a security update. The update closes three vulnerabilities that are exploited by 0-day exploits.
[German]The Solarigate story continues. Now four other security vendors have disclosed "incidents" related to the supply chain attacks via SolarWinds Orion products.
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