Microsoft Windows 10 And 11—New Update Warning As ‘Malicious’ Attacks Confirmed

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Microsoft Windows 10 And 11—New Update Warning As ‘Malicious’ Attacks Confirmed
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targeting Windows 10 and Windows 11. An alarming new report warns that this the new zero-day attack “is a prime example of how unsupported Windows relics are an overlooked attack surface that can still be exploited by threat actors to infect unsuspecting users with ransomware, backdoors, or as a conduit for other kinds of malware.”

The stealer malware itself is new and was only discovered earlier this year, but “variations of the Atlantida campaign have been highly active throughout 2024 and have evolved to use CVE-2024-38112 as part of Void Banshee infection chains.” While CISA’s focus is ransomware, this new report adds direct theft into the mix.The malicious link that triggers one of these attacks is coded to open in IE rather than Edge or Chrome.

Across these reports we have seen some variation, but the end result is the same lure for users to click a URL packaged with a dangerous mhtml handler that tells the system to open with IE instead of a newer, more secure alternative.

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