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2024-08-28 Post a Comment

Windows Downdate tool lets you ‘unpatch’ Windows systems

By Sergiu Gatlan SafeBreach security researcher Alon Leviev has released his Windows Downdate tool, which can be used for downgrade attacks that reintroduce old vulnerabilities in up-to-date Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server systems. In such attacks, threat actors force up-to-date targeted devices to revert to older software versions, thus reintroducing security vulnerabilities that can be exploited to compromise the system. Windows Downdate is available as an open-source Python-based program and […]

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2024-04-06 Post a Comment

500ms to midnight: XZ / liblzma backdoor

SAMIR BOUSSEADEN•MIKA AYENSON•JAKE KING: Elastic Security Labs is releasing an initial analysis of the XZ Utility backdoor, including YARA rules, osquery, and KQL searches to identify potential compromises. Key Takeaways On March 29, 2024, Andres Freund identified malicious commits to the command-line utility XZ, impacting versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 for Linux, and shared the information on the oss-security mailing list. Andres’ discovery was made after an increase of 500ms in latency was […]

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