With the details of these attacks fully disclosed, the chances of becoming a victim of these attacks are a lot higher. However, as these kinds of attacks are very time consuming, cyber criminals would be more likely to attack more lucrative targets such as organizations or their key personal rather than target smaller individuals.
“Criminals with knowledge of these attacks would have the power to uncover the most vital, best-protected information of both companies and private individuals around the world, and the corresponding power to steal, blackmail, sabotage and spy,” Gavin Hill, vice-president for datacenter and network security products at Bitdefender warned.
What can I do to prevent this?
Firstly, this vulnerability was already included in the July 9 security update of Microsoft, so if you’ve already up to date with the security patches you don’t have to do anything.
As for existing Trend Micro users, given that this is a local type of vulnerability, Trend Micro IPS rule cannot be created for this. Vulnerability exploitable with only local access requires the attacker to either have physical access or be logged on to the vulnerable system. DPI can only detect attacks over the network.
As stated above, it would be best to immediately update your OS Security Patches, you may find a list below:
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