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Microsoft Warns Windows Users of Ongoing Russian Hack Attack

Ooda Loop

Researchers at Microsoft Threat Intelligence have issued a warning that Russian state-sponsored hackers have been targeting Windows users with a custom tool used to steal credentials and even install backdoors.

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CyRC Vulnerability Advisory: CVE-2023-32353, Apple iTunes local privilege escalation on Windows

Synopsys

Synopsys Cybersecurity Research Center has discovered a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Apple iTunes on Microsoft Windows. Overview The Synopsys Cybersecurity Research Center (CyRC) has discovered CVE-2023-32353, a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Apple iTunes on Microsoft Windows.

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How Lacework Composite Alerts caught a Windows incident: A detailed walkthrough

Lacework

As security researchers, we see many examples of “weak signal correlation” in other solutions that individually would result in too many false positives and alert fatigue without any threat associated with the alert. Why is Windows a target? To do this, we must combine security domain expertise with anomaly detection.

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Daily Crunch: Apple’s M1 chips have an ‘unpatchable’ hardware vulnerability, say MIT researchers

TechCrunch

Pacman on the attack : Carly writes that MIT researchers, while applying a “Pacman attack” test on Apple’s M1 chips, undiscovered a doozy in the way of an “unpatchable” hardware vulnerability that could allow attackers to break through its last line of security defenses. Have a great weekend! TC Sessions: Climate 2022. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Less VC for SV, 2022 marketing predictions, GTM research strategies

TechCrunch

Silicon Valley’s tech ecosystem, on the other hand, was initially seeded by military research and a surge in college admissions after the Second World War that fostered a community of technologists and investors. Image Credits: Adam Drobiec/EyeEm (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. Consumers are embracing Apple’s iOS 14.5’s

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Microsoft taps Sanctuary AI for general-purpose robot research

Ooda Loop

At the end of February, the Windows maker spearheaded a massive $675 million Series B in Bay Area-based Figure. Microsoft, it seems, is hedging its bets when it comes to general-purpose robotics AI. Today, the tech giant announced a collaboration with Figure competitor Sanctuary AI, best known for its humanoid […]

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3CX Desktop App for Windows and macOS Reportedly Compromised in Supply Chain Attack

Tenable

On March 29, a post on the CrowdStrike subreddit revealed that the 3CX desktop app, a softphone client for both Windows and Mac, was compromised and trojanized. msi aa124a4b4df12b34e74ee7f6c683b2ebec4ce9a8edcf9be345823b4fdcf5d868 Windows 18.12.416 3cxdesktopapp-18.12.416.msi We do not know if it was distributed back then.

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