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Network Abuses Leveraging High-Profile Events: Suspicious Domain Registrations and Other Scams
Unit 42 found scammers surge deceptive domain registrations around major events like the 2024 Paris Olympics to run phishing and counterfeit merchandise scams.
Unit 42 analyzed newly registered domains (over 200,000 detected daily from zone files, WHOIS, and passive DNS) containing event-specific keywords, using the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics as a case study. Threat actors register lookalike domains to sell counterfeit merchandise, push fraudulent services, and run phishing, as previously seen with COVID-19-themed and fake ChatGPT tool scams. The article recommends monitoring domain registrations, DNS and URL traffic trends, textual patterns, and verdict change requests to catch event-themed abuse early.
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Microsoft Releases Emergency Patch to Fix RDS Snafu
Microsoft's out-of-band KB5129195 fixes September Patch Tuesday regressions breaking RDS connections, Hyper-V shared folders, and USB audio.
Microsoft released cumulative out-of-band update KB5129195 on September 14, 2026, fixing RDS instability causing failing RDP connections, sign-in issues, and hanging servers. The patch also resolves Hyper-V Plan9 shared-folder failures affecting WSL and Claude Cowork, plus USB Audio Class 1.0 device failures. This is Microsoft's sixth emergency patch after a September Patch Tuesday that fixed a record 974 CVEs.
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