Mar 7, 2021 10:52 EST with 0 comments
The week brought everything from Ignite news aplenty – as expected – to a rather serious set of Exchange on-prem vulnerabilities, and the usual Windows Insider builds. You can find info about that, as well as much more below, in your Microsoft digest for the week of February 28 – March 6.
An unfortunate Exchange
CVE-2021-26855, CVE-2021-26857, CVE-2021-26858, and CVE-2021-27065, otherwise known as the set of vulnerabilities in Exchange on-premises servers that were used by state-sponsored Chinese hacking group HAFNIUM in its attacks this week (and the days prior).
While news of the exploits started circulating at the beginning of the year, the vulnerability chaining did not happen until earlier this week. Microsoft has outlined a number of Indicators of Compromise (or IOCs), along with pushing out out-of-band patches for all affected Exchange on-prem servers - versions 2013 through to 2019. The company has urged admins to
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A weekend virtual writing workshop gets things rolling on Saturday, March 13, and Saturday, March 20, featuring Perrin Kerns. Writing For Resilience: Finding and Using Joy as a Source, will focus on writing about joy in the midst of the pandemic, protests, climate change and solitude. Cost to participate is $270, or $240 for Fishtrap members. Registration is open at www.Fishtrap.org.
April s virtual workshop features nature writer Karen Auvinen. The Land Beneath Your Feet: Writing with Nature will be held Wednesdays in April from 6-7:30 p.m. (Pacific time). Registration is $270, or $243 for Fishtrappers.
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Maza cybercrime forum members details breached (Source: Flashpoint)
Maza, a Russian carding and fraud discussion forum, has been breached, and hackers have leaked users email addresses and forum credentials, security firms report.
The breach occurred Wednesday evening, experts say, and led to many types of information being exposed: user IDs; usernames; email addresses; passwords in both hashed and obfuscated form; Yahoo, MSN and Skype credentials; and other data that could help identify individuals.
A 35-page PDF file leaked on the dark web, with 3,000 rows of data, includes alleged user information, experts say. Exposed data includes ICQ numbers, which could be used to connect multiple accounts to the same user across many forums and different nicknames over time, threat intelligence firm Flashpoint reports.
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