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Microsoft to remove WINS support after Windows Server 2025

Microsoft has warned IT administrators to prepare for the removal of Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) from Windows Server releases starting in November 2034.

The legacy WINS computer name registration and resolution service has been deprecated with the release of Windows Server 2022 in August 2021, when Microsoft stopped active development and working on new features.

Windows Server 2025 will be the final Long-Term Servicing Channel release to come with WINS support, with the feature to be removed from future releases.

Malicious Blender model files deliver StealC infostealing malware

A Russian-linked campaign delivers the StealC V2 information stealer malware through malicious Blender files uploaded to 3D model marketplaces like CGTrader.

Blender is a powerful open-source 3D creation suite that can execute Python scripts for automation, custom user interface panels, add-ons, rendering processes, rigging tools, and pipeline integration.

If the Auto Run feature is enabled, when a user opens a character rig, a Python script can automatically load the facial controls and custom UI panels with the required buttons and sliders.

ClickFix attack uses fake Windows Update screen to push malware

ClickFix attack variants have been observed where threat actors trick users with a realistic-looking Windows Update animation in a full-screen browser page and hide the malicious code inside images.

ClickFix is a social-engineering attack where users are convinced to paste and execute in Windows Command Prompt code or commands that lead to running malware on the system.

The attack has been widely adopted by cybercriminals across all tiers due to its high effectiveness and has continually evolved, with increasingly advanced and deceptive lures.

Real-estate finance services giant SitusAMC breach exposes client data

SitusAMC, a company that provides back-end services for top banks and lenders, disclosed on Saturday a data breach it had discovered earlier this month that impacted customer data.

As a real-estate (commercial and residential) financing firm, SitusAMC handles back-office operations in areas like mortgage origination, servicing, and compliance for banks and investors.

The company generates around $1 billion in annual revenue from 1,500 clients, some of whom are banking giants like Citi, Morgan Stanley, and JPMorgan Chase.

Shai-Hulud malware infects 500 npm packages, leaks secrets on GitHub

Hundreds of trojanized versions of well-known packages such as Zapier, ENS Domains, PostHog, and Postman have been planted in the npm registry in a new Shai-Hulud supply-chain campaign.

The malicious packages have been added to NPM (Node Package Manager) over the weekend to steal developer and continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) secrets. The data is automatically posted on GitHub in encoded form.

At publishing time, GitHub returned 27,600 results corresponding to entries related to the recent attack.

The Universe Could ‘End’ With a Dark Eternity, an Astrophysicist Explains

Whether the Universe will ‘end’ at all is not certain, but all evidence suggests it will continue being humanity’s cosmic home for a very, very long time.

The Universe – all of space and time, and all matter and energy – began about 14 billion years ago in a rapid expansion called the Big Bang, but since then it has been in a state of continuous change.

First, it was full of a diffuse gas of particles that now make up atoms: protons, neutrons, and electrons. Then, that gas collapsed into stars and galaxies.

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