Windows TCO Leftovers
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The Register UK ☛ British Library: Finances remain healthy as ransomware recovery continues
Citing inaccuracies in wider reports, a British Library spokesperson told The Register: "The final costs of recovering from the recent cyber attack are still not confirmed. The British Library and its government sponsor, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), remain in close and regular contact. The Library always maintains its own financial reserve to help address unexpected issues and no bids for additional funding have been made at this stage."
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Security Week ☛ Ransomware Gang Claims Attack on Capital Health
The LockBit ransomware gang over the weekend claimed responsibility for a November 2023 cyberattack on hospital system Capital Health.
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Security Week ☛ Turkish [Crackers] Target Microsoft SQL Servers in Americas, Europe
The attackers were seen executing PowerShell scripts leading to a heavily obfuscated Cobalt Strike payload designed to be injected in a Windows process.
Next, the adversaries used Cobalt Strike to deploy the legitimate remote desktop software AnyDesk and shifted to using it exclusively for future interaction with the compromised systems.
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Cyble Inc ☛ Akira Ransomware Allegedly Targets Van Buren Public School, Leaks Sensitive Data
The details of the data breach were published on the dark web leak portal of the Akira ransomware group on January 8, 2024. The information from the Van Buren Public School data breach contains details about students and their parents, the school’s human resource-related details, accounting and finance-related data, and some other files.
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404 Media ☛ Sealed Indictment Shows Case Against Hacker Behind Massive T-Mobile Data Breach
T-Mobile did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Neither did the Western District of Washington.
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Security Week ☛ Microsoft Ships Urgent Fixes for Critical Flaws in Windows Kerberos, Hyper-V [iophk: But isn't "Kerberos" for Microsoft part and parcel of Microsoft's Active Directory (AD) and inseparable as far as Windows is concerned? In that case the title should read that the problem is about AD instead, not Kerberos. Something fishy about this spin.]
Microsoft hit the ground running with the first Patch Tuesday release for 2024, rolling out security fixes for at least 49 security defects in a wide range of Windows OS and software components.