Microsoft says SMB signing (aka security signatures) will be required by default for all connections to defend against NTLM relay attacks, starting with today’s Windows build (Enterprise edition) rolling out to Insiders in the Canary Channel.

The issue, disclosed last week by firmware and hardware security company Eclypsium, is that the firmware of more than 270 Gigabyte motherboards drops a Windows binary that is executed at boot-up to fetch and execute a payload from Gigabyte’s servers.

Online sellers are being targeted in a new campaign launched this week to push the Vidar information-stealing malware, allowing threat actors to steal credentials for more damaging attacks.

The documentary, BREAKING the CODE: Cyber Secrets Revealed, reveals that the Australian Signals Directorate developed three payloads it could deploy to ISIL fighters’ smartphones and PCs “without ISIL having to interact with the device in any way.”

Mandiant has attributed the attack to UNC4857, a new threat cluster, and named the delivered webshell LemurLoot. Microsoft, on the other hand, is confident that the threat actor behind the Cl0p ransomware is responsible for the attack.

Forced verification and deepfake cases multiply at alarming rates in the UK and continental Europe, according to Sumsub. In Germany alone, forced verification grew by 1500% as a proportion of all fraud cases to 5% of all fraud in Q1 2023.

At institutions like the University of Texas at Austin, MIT, the University of Georgia, and UC Berkeley, cyber clinics are working to protect local institutions from cyber threats by training and deploying students to government and community groups.

Cybersecurity researcher Wladimir Palant analyzed the PDF Toolbox extension (2 million downloads) available from Chrome Web Store and found that it included code that was disguised as a legitimate extension API wrapper.

“TrueBot is a downloader trojan botnet that uses command and control servers to collect information on compromised systems and uses that compromised system as a launching point for further attacks,” VMware’s Fae Carlisle said.

Trend Micro examined and uncovered “an extremely high degree of similarity” between the recently surfaced BlackSuit group and the Royal ransomware group. They share approximately 98% similarity in functions, 99.5% similarity in code blocks, and 98.9% similarity in jump instructions, as witnessed on BinDiff, a comparison tool for binary files. Experts also found eerie similarities […]