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CVE-2024-30051, under active exploit, is the most concerning out of this month's Patch Tuesday offerings, and already being abused by several QakBot actors.
Plus: Google Chrome, Apple bugs also exploited in the wild Happy May Patch Tuesday. We've got a lot of vendors joining this month's patchapalooza, which includes a handful of bugs that have been exploited — either in the wild or at Pwn2Own — and now fixed by Microsoft, Apple, Google and VMware.…
Kaspersky Says It Spotted QakBot Operators Exploiting the Flaw in AprilMicrosoft issued a patch Tuesday for a Windows zero-day vulnerability that security researchers say operators of the QakBot botnet and other hackers actively exploited. The elevation of privilege vulnerability flaw is rated "important" on the CVSS scale.
Microsoft has fixed a zero-day vulnerability exploited in attacks to deliver QakBot and other malware payloads on vulnerable Windows systems. [...]
Microsoft and several others have reported seeing the noxious malware surfacing again in a campaign targeting the hospitality industry.
Experts say malware strain make take years to die off completely Multiple sources are confirming the resurgence of Qakbot malware mere months after the FBI and other law enforcement agencies shuttered the Windows botnet.…
A new wave of phishing messages distributing the QakBot malware has been observed, more than three months after a law enforcement effort saw its infrastructure dismantled by infiltrating its command-and-control (C2) network
Popular malware like QakBot and DarkGate rely on VBScript, which dates back to 1996 — but their days are numbered now that Microsoft is finally deprecating the Windows programming. language.
A coordinated law enforcement effort codenamed Operation Duck Hunt has felled QakBot, a notorious Windows malware family that's estimated to have compromised over 700,000 computers globally and facilitated financial fraud as well as ransomware
The FBI announced today the disruption of the Qakbot botnet in an international law enforcement operation that not only seized infrastructure but also uninstalled the malware from infected devices. [...]
Totally plucked: Agents remotely roasted Windows botnet malware on victims' machines Uncle Sam today said an international law enforcement effort dismantled Qakbot, aka QBot, a notorious botnet and malware loader responsible for losses totaling hundreds of millions of dollars worldwide, and seized more than $8.6 million in illicit cryptocurrency.…
The U.S. government today announced a coordinated crackdown against QakBot, a complex malware family used by multiple cybercrime groups to lay the groundwork for ransomware infections. The international law enforcement operation involved seizing control over the botnet's online infrastructure, and quietly removing the Qakbot malware from tens of thousands of infected Microsoft Windows computer systems.
In a continuing sign that threat actors are adapting well to a post-macro world, it has emerged that the use of Microsoft OneNote documents to deliver malware via phishing attacks is on the rise
Phishing campaigns involving the Qakbot malware are using Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) images embedded in HTML email attachments