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By Emmanuel Oluebube, Bureau Chief, United Kingdom ngCERT has identified FalconFlank, a project that claims to exploit a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor for Windows, Cyber Era NG learns.
Summary
We gather the alleged flaw reportedly abuses the sensor’s Microsoft Office malicious macro remediation process and may allow a low-privileged local user […]
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Incidents like this rarely start with the headline event itself — they usually trace back to an exposed remote-access endpoint, an unpatched perimeter system, or a credential phished weeks earlier. The organizations that recover fastest are the ones that tested their defenses and their incident response plan before they needed them.
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