The defacement involves the following message: “UP, DINGGIN NINYO ANG ISANG NATATANGING PROTESTA.”
This is one example of hackers defacing websites to protest social and political injustice around the globe.
UP Diliman Administration published online a statement, which said: “We are still investigating the circumstances that led to the defacement of the UVLê website on 7 March 2021. We will make sure to do what is fair and just to all concerned. Rest assured that the University has backups of the system and will restore services at the soonest possible time even while the investigation is ongoing.”
Web defacement is typically done by hackers who break into a web server and replace the hosted website with one of their own. Using techniques such as Remote Code Execution, SQL Injection, Cross Site Scripting etc. Common targets of defacement are religious websites, government websites, bank websites and corporate websites.
TrickBot rises to top threat in February, overtaking Emotet in Check Point’s new index.
A massive malicious spam campaign, along with the global takedown of Emotet, has vaulted the TrickBot trojan to the top of the Check Point’s list of the most popular malware among cybercriminals for February.
In January, TrickBot was ranked third on Check Point’s list, and it was fourth overall for 2020, while the No. 1 malware, Emotet, remained ascendant. But following the worldwide law-enforcement effort to take down Emotet in January, cybercriminals have pivoted to TrickBot, the report explained. Both strains are most often used as first-stage loaders for fetching additional malware.
Microsoft release patches to fix critical bugs: Report
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San Francisco, March 10 : Microsoft has released 89 security fixes for software including the Edge browser, Office and Azure that patch critical issues including vectors for the remote execution of arbitrary code.
During the tech giant s standard monthly patch round, Microsoft released a slew of patches to fix vulnerabilities in software including Azure, Microsoft Office products such as PowerPoint, Excel, SharePoint, and Visio alongside the Edge browser and Internet Explorer.
This also includes seven out-of-band fixes for Microsoft Exchange Server which were released last week, four of which are classed as zero-days, reports ZDnet.
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VMware has issued patches for a critical vulnerability in its virtual desktop deployment platform, View Planner, which could enable remote code execution.
The vulnerability, CVE-2021-21978, has a CVSS ranking of 8.6, considered highly critical. The flaw is caused by improper input validation and lack of authorization, resulting in arbitrary file upload in VMware s View Planner web application. An unauthorized attacker with network access to View Planner Harness could upload and execute a specially crafted file leading to remote code execution within the log upload container, VMware notes.
VMware issued patches for the vulnerability on Tuesday and urged affected customers to immediately apply the fixes. The flaw was identified by a researcher at security firm Positive Technologies.
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