If you practice good digital hygiene, you’re likely installing Windows updates soon after their release date, especially when they’re security-focused. However, hackers are constantly poking and prodding the security of Microsoft’s operating system and devising new ways to bypass any of the restrictions in place.
In a security advisory released this week, the Redmond giant details a major issue where no fewer than 133 drivers that were officially signed by its engineers had recently been used by malicious actors to distribute malware, which seems to be a recurring problem. The campaign in question has been primarily targeted at Chinese-speaking Windows users, but, given the method used, there’s a good reason to believe this has been used to target users around the world.
