July 29, 2022, 2:29 p.m. | Bill Toulas

BleepingComputer www.bleepingcomputer.com

Security analysts have observed an affiliate of the LockBit 3.0 ransomware operation abusing a Windows Defender command line tool to decrypt and load Cobalt Strike beacons on the target systems. [...]

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