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Microsoft Discovers Supply Chain Attack at Unnamed Maker of PDF Software (bleepingcomputer.com)
Microsoft said today that hackers compromised a font package installed by a PDF editor app and used it to deploy a cryptocurrency miner on users' computers. From a report: The OS maker discovered the incident after its staff received alerts via the Windows Defender ATP, the commercial version of the Windows Defender antivirus. Microsoft employees say they investigated the alerts and determined that hackers breached the cloud server infrastructure of a software company providing font packages as MSI files. These MSI files were offered to other software companies. One of these downstream companies was using these font packages for its PDF editor app, which would download the MSI files from the original company's cloud servers during the editor's installation routine.
was it comic sans?
To download full local install packages with their check sums. And that these cloud based (internet required) apps are great to force the continuous subscription profit model but not so secure or great for the end user.
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Just my 2 cents
I was just this morning taking a security course required by my employer where they were stressing the importance of securing the supply chain.
Oh and by-the-way, I think there must be some kind of quantum nature to all these exploits. And maybe if we would just stop looking for them, they would not come into existence at all and their eigenvalues would remain undefined. Worth a shot.
Okay back to your regularly scheduled illusion.
=^..^= all your rodent are belong to us
...is it considered even remotely acceptable that downloading an (expletive deleted) font package puts you at risk of malware installation? Which parallel universe does one have to be in to not immediately send the person in charge of security for this product to the Uranium mines?
Oh, wait, this is Windows we are talking about. All good, move on, nothing new to see here.
This is a very good move!
Next time Microsoft will use MSI to provide wallpapers a audio notification too.
And web pages...
Sent as ripples into the electromagnetic field. No single photon has been harmed in the process.
only on windows you get a malicious payload when installing a fsck FONT PACK!
On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
"I find it AMUSING how YOU & "your kind" have to HIDE from me via UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous"
Yet here you are commenting as AC yourself.
Oddly, you strike me as someone I used to converse with quite a lot a very very long time ago.. First name Andrew I believe..
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Damn man, yeah I remember you from the Dalnet days when we were mods of one of the channels. Your decent into madness started even back then!
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