These updates are dangerous — what to know.
Republished on July 26 with new warnings for users of Chrome and other platforms a as the threat of new attacks quickly escalates.
In the case of Interlock, two such methods of initial entry use the same lures as attackers are using to target your personal accounts and the data and security credentials on your own devices. You should be watching for these anyway.. This is where a message or popup instructs you to paste text into a Windows command and then execute that script. It’s done by faking a technical problem or a secure site or file you need to open. Any such instruction is always an attack and must be ignored..
ESET’s Jake Moore warns that “the word ‘update’ is usually synonymous with security but in this instance, it’s quite the opposite. Whilst keeping software up to date is generally best practice, blindly installing updates without verifying their integrity can actually sometimes introduce new risks.” NCC precipiently notes that “the decline created space for new threat actors to exploit global instability and, looking ahead to Q3, we can expect disrupted groups to return in collaboration with social engineering actors, conducting more advanced attacks.”
The prior CISA Chrome update mandate has only just only expired, on July 23, after America’s c uber defense agency warned that Chrome’s V8 engine “contains a type confusion vulnerability that could allow a remote attacker to perform arbitrary read/write via a crafted HTML page.”
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