Category: bluekeep

The first in-the-wild BlueKeep attack isn’t as dangerous as feared

Post author By Randall
Post date November 3, 2019
Categories In attack, bluekeep, cryptominer, cryptomining, exploit, gear, Internet, rdp, Security, Tech, vulnerability, windows

[ad_1] There’s been a “spike” in traffic related to the flaw, Rendition Infosec’s Jake Williams told Wired, but it hasn’t hit “critical mass.” This doesn’t rule out the possibility of a more serious BlueKeep attack. There were still 735,000 computers open to BlueKeep as of August, according to Errata Security. However, the window of opportunity […]

US recommends Windows users patch against worm vulnerability

Post author By Randall
Post date June 17, 2019
Categories In bluekeep, cisa, gear, homeland security, Internet, malware, Microsoft, microsoft vista, microsoft windows, microsoft windows 7, personal computing, personalcomputing, Security, Tech, wannacry, wannacrypt

[ad_1] The BlueKeep vulnerability is “wormable”, meaning an attacker only has to gain access to one computer in order to gain control of all the other devices on its network. Microsoft already issued patches for the bug last month, but private security firm Errata estimated that millions of devices still remain vulnerable. While an attacker […]