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Ransomware Gangs Try to Exploit ‘PrintNightmare’ Flaws

Microsoft has issued an advisory on another zero-day flaw that is part of the class of bugs that make up PrintNightmare. The bugs are a series of remote code execution vulnerabilities affecting Windows Print Spooler and other services. In July, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a directive for federal agencies to immediately patch the flaws. The Vice Society gang is targeting small and midsized organizations with a double extortion tactic, which includes encrypting victims’ files and exfiltrating data and threatening to publish that information on a darknet data leak site.”]

Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/ransomware-gangs-try-to-exploit-printnightmare-flaws-a-17285

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