Researchers found a new version of GandCrab – but no evidence that the ransomware is using the same SMB exploit as Wannacry. A new version of the evolving ransomware threat GandCrab has been ...
Exploits of Microsoft’s server message block (SMB) protocol have been an “unmitigated success” for malware writers, according to researchers at security firm Cylance. In April 2017, the Shadow Brokers ...
US-CERT and other organizations Friday warned of a zero-day memory corruption bug in several versions of Microsoft Windows that could allow a remote attacker to cause a vulnerable system to crash and ...
A new botnet has been spotted in the wild which exploits the Microsoft Windows SMB protocol to move laterally across systems while covertly mining for cryptocurrency. In a report shared with ZDNet, on ...
Within two days of news that GandCrab 4.0 ransomware was being distributed by compromising websites disguised as download sites for cracked applications, a newer version (v4.1) was found using the ...
Metasploit 6.2.0 has been released with 138 new modules, 148 new improvements/features, and 156 bug fixes since version 6.1.0 was released in August 2021. Metasploit is a penetration testing framework ...
Functional proof-of-concept code for a Server Message Block (SMB) 3.1.1 vulnerability in newer Windows systems has been published, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) ...