According to U.S. authorities, Russian state-sponsored hackers are leveraging default multi-factor authentication (MFA) protocols and the PrintNightmare vulnerabilities to gain network access. In a joint advisory, the FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency say cyber actors backed by the Russian government began pairing those attack vectors as early as May 2021 to target a […]
When Microsoft released security patches earlier this month to address the vulnerabilities in Windows Print Spooler service, we thought the flaws known as PrigntNightmare were behind us. However, due to the very patch that Microsoft issued to keep cybercriminals from gaining admin privileges through this vulnerability and other changes, some admins are complaining of printing […]
Much has been made of the vulnerabilities recently discovered in the Windows Print Spooler Service and Microsoft’s patches for the issue. Now, systems that remain unpatched are being attacked by ransomware operators. In a new report, Cisco Talos says a threat actor is exploiting those vulnerabilities – dubbed PrintNightmare – to spread laterally across a […]
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