It will start at 04:00, will have a power of dozens TB and will involve at least 100 Anon. It is the response to the DDoS attacks against Italy. The targets are top Secret, but heavy damage to Russia is expected.
Cybersecurity, Microsoft releases a new bunch of security updates
Microsoft released a new bunch of security updates. They cover 55 issues in different products. Six of them are critical and have already been exploited by cybercrime actors
Microsoft released a new bunch of cybersecurity updates, which fix several zero-day exploits. The patches solve 55 issues for Edge, Office, Visual Studio, Exchange Server, Kernel, and Defender, of which six re critical:
- CVE-2021-43209 and CVE-2021-43208 – both deal with flaws in the 3D Viewer in Windows and are Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities, that a hacker can run any code on the affected system;
- CVE-2021-38631 and CVE-2021-41371 – correct a problem with the Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). Attackers can use the flaw to extract personal information or locally force the leaking of information;
- CVE-2021-42292 – impacts Excel and has already been exploited by cybercrime as an entry point to bypass security controls;
- CVE-2021-42321 – actively used by threat actors and is present in Exchange Server. While hackers need to be authenticated, a flaw in the command validation can lead to a Remote Code Execution.