Quick Heal v24, and What’s New About It?

Credit to Author: Quickheal| Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2023 12:53:15 +0000

As the buzz intensifies and conversations about the ‘new and improved’ antivirus solution continues across the digital landscape,…

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DarkGate Opens Organizations for Attack via Skype, Teams

Credit to Author: Trent Bessell| Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

We detail an ongoing campaign abusing messaging platforms Skype and Teams to distribute the DarkGate malware to targeted organizations. We also discovered that once DarkGate is installed on the victim’s system, additional payloads were introduced to the environment.

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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint now stops human-operated attacks on its own

Credit to Author: Rob Lefferts| Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2023 16:00:00 +0000

Today, we’re pleased to announce that Microsoft Defender for Endpoint customers will now be able automatically to disrupt human-operated attacks like ransomware early in the kill chain without needing to deploy any other capabilities. Now, organizations only need to onboard their devices to Defender for Endpoint to start realizing the benefits of attack disruption.

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Automatic disruption of human-operated attacks through containment of compromised user accounts

Credit to Author: Microsoft Threat Intelligence| Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2023 16:00:00 +0000

We added user containment to the automatic attack disruption capability in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, a unique and innovative defense mechanism that stops human-operated attacks in their tracks. User containment is automatically triggered by high-fidelity signals and limits attackers’ ability to move laterally within a network regardless of the compromised account’s Active Directory state or privilege level.

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Patch Tuesday, October 2023 Edition

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 22:51:31 +0000

Microsoft today issued security updates for more than 100 newly-discovered vulnerabilities in its Windows operating system and related software, including four flaws that are already being exploited. In addition, Apple recently released emergency updates to quash a pair of zero-day bugs in iOS.

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