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Analyzing Forest Blizzard’s custom post-compromise tool for exploiting CVE-2022-38028 to obtain credentials

Credit to Author: Microsoft Threat Intelligence| Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2024 16:00:00 +0000

Since 2019, Forest Blizzard has used a custom post-compromise tool to exploit a vulnerability in the Windows Print Spooler service that allows elevated permissions. Microsoft has issued a security update addressing this vulnerability as CVE-2022-38028.

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Octo Tempest crosses boundaries to facilitate extortion, encryption, and destruction

Credit to Author: Microsoft Incident Response and Microsoft Threat Intelligence| Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 16:30:00 +0000

Microsoft has been tracking activity related to the financially motivated threat actor Octo Tempest, whose evolving campaigns represent a growing concern for many organizations across multiple industries.

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