March 2022 – Page 19 – PossibleThreat Articles

The FBI has warned the public about a new fraud scheme that involves impersonating law enforcement and government personnel in order to steal money and data.

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Brave browser goes the extra mile to block third party cookies

March 10, 2022 0 Comments bounce tracking, Brave, browser, link decoration, nightly, Privacy, redirect tracking, unlinkable bouncing

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2022 12:46:49 +0000

The Brave browser is testing a new feature to stop bounce tracking.

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Qakbot injects itself into the middle of your conversations

March 10, 2022 0 Comments featured, qakbot, Qbot, SophosLabs Uncut, threat research, webinjects

Credit to Author: Steeve Gaudreault| Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2022 11:00:56 +0000

The heavily distributed botnet delivers a wide variety of payloads – and scans your network for weaknesses

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Will Russian Oil Ban Spur Increased Cyber-Attacks

March 9, 2022 0 Comments trend micro research : apt & targeted attacks, trend micro research : articles, news, reports, trend micro research : cyber threats, trend micro research : expert perspective, trend micro research : exploits & vulnerabilities, trend micro research : network, trend micro research : web

Credit to Author: Ed Cabrera| Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

President Biden banned the sale of Russian oil to the United States to deprive the Putin regime of the economic resources needed to wage war. But this may put US companies in the firing line of cyber-attacks from the east.

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Twitter makes the leap to Tor

March 9, 2022 0 Comments anonymity, onion, Privacy, routing, Tor, tor browser, twitter

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2022 20:00:35 +0000

Twitter is the latest major platform to make an onion version of its service.

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Update now! Microsoft patches three zero-day vulnerabilities on Patch Tuesday

March 9, 2022 0 Comments Android, cev-2022-24508, Cisco, cve-2022-21990, cve-2022-23277, cve-2022-24459, cve-2022-24501, cve-2022-24508, cve-202224512, Exploits and vulnerabilities, Google, hp, Microsoft, Patch Tuesday, Samsung, uefi

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2022 19:51:59 +0000

Microsoft has released its Patch Tuesday updates which includes three zero-days and three critical vulnerabilities.

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FormBook spam campaign targets citizens of Ukraine️

March 9, 2022 0 Comments formbook, malspam, threat intelligence, ukraine

Credit to Author: Threat Intelligence Team| Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2022 19:35:09 +0000

A new malspam campaing is delivering Formbook to Ukrainian citizens, targeting them with a lure of government funds.

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, March 2022 Edition

March 9, 2022 0 Comments cve-2022-21967, cve-2022-21990, cve-2022-23277, cve-2022-23285, cve-2022-24459, cve-2022-24503, cve-2022-24508, cve-2022-24512, dustin childs, greg wiseman, immersive labs, kevin breen, microsoft exchange server, microsoft patch tuesday march 2022, rapid7, remote desktop, Time to Patch, trend micro zero day initiative, windows smbv3

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2022 16:22:12 +0000

Microsoft on Tuesday released software updates to plug at least 70 security holes in its Windows operating systems and related software. For the second month running, there are no scary zero-day threats looming for Windows users (that we know of), and relatively few “critical” fixes. And yet we know from experience that attackers are already trying to work out how to turn these patches into a roadmap for exploiting the flaws they fix. Here’s a look at the security weaknesses Microsoft says are most likely to be targeted first.