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Microsoft warns of critical Windows DNS Server vulnerability that’s ‘wormable’

The Verge

Microsoft is warning of a 17-year-old critical Windows DNS Server vulnerability that the company has classified as “wormable.” Wormable vulnerabilities have the potential to spread via malware between vulnerable computers without user interaction,” explains Mechele?Gruhn Windows DNS Server is a core networking component.

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Malware distributors are switching to less suspicious file types

Network World

After aggressively using JavaScript email attachments to distribute malware for the past year, attackers are now switching to less suspicious file types to trick users. Last week, researchers from the Microsoft Malware Protection Center warned about a new wave of spam emails that carried malicious.LNK files inside ZIP archives.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Beyond MITRE ATT&CK

ForAllSecure

Duff: ATT&CK itself is just a project within the MITRE Corporation, right, so it was originally spun up as a research and development effort that was being done about eight years ago now. It traditionally supports the research for several U.S. Vamosi: Perhaps a bit more background is needed. First MITRE and then ATTACK.

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