Despite being initially developed to disable security systems, PoorTry — also known as BurntCigar — has since been updated to allow the removal of security software's crucial dynamic link libraries and executable files in a RansomHub attack last month.
I often say that it isn't the concepts or ideas in cybersecurity that are bad, but the implementations of them. Sometimes the market timing is just wrong and the industry isn't ready for a particular technology (e.g. enterprise browsers). Other times, the technology just isn't ready yet (e.g. SIEMs needed better database technology and faster stora...
"We've confirmed this issue is resolved after implementing a mitigation within the service. Telemetry shows over 99% of impacted emails have been unblocked and automatically replayed," said Microsoft.
Nearly $4.78 million had been stolen by threat actors that compromised Equiniti via email chain hijacking in 2022, nearly $1 million of which has been recovered, while another intrusion in April 2023 that involved the exfiltration of certain Equiniti Trust account holders' Social Security numbers led to the theft of nearly $1.9 million.
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