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This malware may be the latest in an ongoing series

March 14, 2017 by Carolyn Mueller

This malware may be the latest in an ongoing series of attacks designed to exploit some of the attacks that have been introduced into Windows.

Last September, Trend Micro researchers released a new tool called Vulnerability Explorer that allows users to exploit critical vulnerability patches and other vulnerabilities in Windows. The malware, known as DAP-521K, exploits some of the vulnerabilities that many attackers exploit in Windows to create remote code execution attacks.

The research team says its research identified at least 30 vulnerabilities in the software and its variants in Windows and found that the vulnerabilities are similar to those exploited by other attackers in other attacks that have been known since the inception of the malware.In the days following Hurricane Katrina, a number of experts, lawmakers and media outlets pointed out that Hurricane Irma, which had already left parts of Haiti and devastated much of the South, could easily have killed thousands. But there's no way we can count on the same type of response that helped us recover from the storm in the first place.

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