Exploit released for Microsoft bug allowing attacker to masquerade as legitimate entity

Researchers from Akamai have released a proof-of-concept for a vulnerability affecting a Microsoft tool that allows the Windows’ application programming interface to deal with cryptography.  The vulnerability, CVE-2022-34689, was discovered by the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre and the National Security Agency. It affects a tool called CryptoAPI and allows an attacker to masquerade […]

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