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China-Linked SprySOCKS Backdoor Expands to Windows with Driver-Based Stealth

ESET found two Windows SprySOCKS variants with 30+ commands, C2 over TCP, UDP, and WebSocket, and government targets in 4 ...
Neowin

Microsoft cautions that Patch Tuesday Windows kernel bugfix could break something

Microsoft has cautioned about a bug fix it released with Patch Tuesday. The fix resolves a kernel issue in Windows but Microsoft has disabled it by default as it can potentially break something. It ...
CRN

Microsoft Exec: Windows Will Enable Security Tools To Run ‘Outside Of Kernel Mode’

Following the massive Windows outage in July caused by a defective CrowdStrike update, Microsoft is working on a way to allow security products to ‘run in user mode just as apps do,’ Microsoft’s David ...
Bleeping Computer

Windows 11 22H2 adds kernel exploit protection to security baseline

Microsoft has released the final version of security configuration baseline settings for Windows 11, version 22H2, downloadable today using the Microsoft Security Compliance Toolkit. "This release ...
Neowin

HWiNFO fixes Windows 11 legacy CPU usage reading, kernel hardware stack driver issue0 0

HWiNFO is one of the best free hardware monitoring tools. The latest version of the software has fixed legacy CPU usage reading on Windows 11, a kernel-mode hardware stack driver bug, and more. HWiNFO ...