follina vulnerability

Threat Advisory: CVE-2022-30190 ‘Follina’ – Severe Zero-day Vulnerability discovered in MSDT

A Zero-day Remote Code Execution Vulnerability with high severity has been identified as CVE-2022-30190 “FOLLINA” in Microsoft Windows Support Diagnostic Tool (MSDT). MSDT is a tool present on Windows version 7 and above and is used for diagnosis of problems in applications such as Ms Office Documents when any user reports problem to Microsoft support. […]

WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux)

Stay Alert – Malware Authors Deploy ELF as Windows Loaders to Exploit WSL feature

What is WSL? The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a resource inside the Windows operating system that allows users to execute Linux command lines on a machine running Windows operating system. The Windows Subsystem for Linux uses an application known as Bash.exe, which launches a Linux dialogue box within the Windows operating system interface. […]

FormBook

FormBook Malware Returns: New Variant Uses Steganography and In-Memory Loading of multiple stages to steal data

Quick Heal Security Lab has seen a sudden increase in dotnet samples which are using steganography. Initially, in the static analysis, not much information is available. It resembles some simple application going by the method name. On the dynamic side, some show the activity but another check for sandboxing environment. Apart from this, even on […]

Scam Alert Beware of Fake LinkedIn Job Offers

LinkedIn Phishing Scam: Hackers target users with fake job offers

LinkedIn is a popular social networking platform that is focused on professional networking and the business community. On this platform, users are focused almost entirely on making connections and finding jobs. But things are not always as they seem. Of late, LinkedIn is emerging as one of the most popular social networking sites used by […]