Security
Hackers appear to be increasingly adopting the Havoc command and control (C2) framework, security researchers say. The open source framework, developed by C5pider, supports the building of offensive agents in several formats including Windows PE executable, PE DLL and shellcode and is an alternative to the paid for (or cracked)
February’s Patch Tuesday brings the post-Valentine’s Day hangover of 75 bug fixes from Microsoft including three for CVEs known to be exploited in the wild: CVE-2023-21715, CVE-2023-23376 , and CVE-2023-21823. Strikingly, more than half of the bugs fixed this month are remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities. (A record 26,
In early 2021 a successful attack by hackers on Accellion, a file transfer service provider, resulted in significant repercussions downstream: Energy supermajor Shell, global law firm Goodwin Procter, and investment bank Morgan Stanley were among the blue chips that saw data stolen as a result. Now a critical vulnerability in