Windows Attack Surface Reduction News Today

Alongside traditional approaches like software vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in applications, hackers are constantly looking for new ways to get into devices and corporate networks. Two of the biggest growing threats are Search Engine Optimization (SEO) poisoning and Malvertising.

According to a series of posts on X by Microsoft Threat Intelligence, Russia-based ransomware actor Storm-0216 (aka Twisted Spider, UNC2198) is using Danabot, an advanced banking Trojan, to deploy Cactus ransomware.