Lunch Time Nibbles – 2022-12-19

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Welcome to another Lunch Time breakout:

New Agenda Ransomware Variant, Written in Rust, Aiming at Critical Infrastructure
A Rust variant of a ransomware strain known as Agenda has been observed in the wild, making it the latest malware to adopt the cross-platform programming language after BlackCat, Hive, Luna, and RansomExx.
Agenda, attributed to an operator named Qilin, is a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group that has been linked to a spate of attacks primarily targeting manufacturing and IT industries across
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Facebook Cracks Down on Spyware Vendors from U.S., China, Russia, Israel, and India
Meta Platforms disclosed that it took down no less than 200 covert influence operations since 2017 spanning roughly 70 countries across 42 languages.
The social media conglomerate also took steps to disable accounts and block infrastructure operated by spyware vendors, including in China, Russia, Israel, the U.S. and India, that targeted individuals in about 200 countries.
“The global
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Microsoft: KB5021233 causes blue screens with 0xc000021a errors
Microsoft is investigating a known issue leading to Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) crashes with 0xc000021a errors after installing the Windows 10 KB5021233 cumulative update released during this month’s Patch Tuesday. […]
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