Brilliant, Chrome And Windows Again

Naturally, spear-phishing paired with recently patched Chrome and Windows flaws slipped a backdoor right through. Just another Tuesday in IT.

Source: The Hacker News

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Here we go again, watching spear-phishing victims fall for classic lures whilst Chinese threat actors chain together freshly patched Google Chrome and Microsoft Windows flaws. Those unfortunate souls using unpatched Chrome and Windows setups took the brunt of this delightful JavaScript backdoor deployment. If one wishes to ward off this particular flavour of misery, one is expected to faithfully apply those recently issued browser and OS patches before clicking arbitrary links. Why do we even bother preaching patch hygiene when the same story unfolds every single week?

#justpatchit #ohgoodanother

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