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Posted on 18 March 202520 March 2025

Fix or not to fix?

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This is an odd one, Microsoft has no plans to fix this issue even though it appears to be being actively exploited and has been for some time. New Windows zero-day exploited by 11 state hacking groups since 2017 – BleepingComputer The attack exploits a weakness in the .lnk file …

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Posted on 12 September 202412 September 2024

Of course they would…

The story normally is “hackers place malicious code into legitimate projects on software repository”. This is a favourite threat actor tactic as it can infect many users, when software developers, unintentional, distribute the malicious code with their projects. Code Risk This story however is how threat actors are using these …

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Posted on 18 July 202418 July 2024

How much internet traffic is malicious?

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Cloudflare, a company best known for protecting clients from various flavours of denial of service attacks, has done the research and calculated that 6.8% of all internet traffic is out to get you. This is an increase of last year’s findings. Application Security report: 2024 update – Cloudflare Cloudflare believes …

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Posted on 20 June 202320 June 2023

Why modern software does not help with the cyber threat

Modern software often offers extra features through the use of code extensions such as using Python or in the case of Microsoft the macro. We all love the extra functionality – threat actors like the way this functionality allows them to slip malicious code through our defences to us. Microsoft …

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Posted on 10 January 202324 May 2023

Two stories about GitHub

GitHub is a code development environment and code repository used around the world by many software developers and well known applications. Consequently it is also a prime target for threat actors who if they can get inside the development of packages can infect many unsuspecting users. The collaboration tool Slack …

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