• towerful@programming.dev
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    5 days ago

    a high-risk warning from the UK’s NHS England Digital.

    Huh, I didn’t think the NHS would be doing security research like this

    • Nighed@feddit.uk
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      I don’t think they found it, they are just flagging it as critical internally.

      • med@sh.itjust.works
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        4 days ago

        Must be, because the call for this update went out a week ago. Are they late or is the reporter being responsible? I know which my money’s on…

  • Alphane Moon@lemmy.world
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    I got hit by a similar exploit for WinRAR, it was a very sneaky XMR miner that took over mg whole system and would push the CPU to the max or mine XMR.

    I was only able to get rid of it via safe made and luck (I was able to find a removal tool via a non-english forum, I suspect they dlacoid targeting US and EU).