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Terminal Emulation- Mainframe Access After CrowdStrike

The Context

The recent major IT disruption linked back to a CrowdStrike update has made headline news globally. On the morning of Friday, 19th July, Windows computers across the planet started “blue screening”: crashing and unable to restart. The scale was huge, impacting 8.5 million Windows systems, from payment processes to transport and healthcare, and resulting in over 5,000 flight cancellations.

PuTTY Users Urged to Migrate Amidst Imminent Security Threat

Users of the PuTTY freeware terminal emulator have been sent an urgent security warning to stop using the software.

The North Korean state-backed Lazarus group, responsible for the 2016 hacking of the Bangladesh Central Bank and the 2014 Sony data breach are currently engaged in a campaign targeting open-source software. The PuTTY terminal emulator is one of the tools being compromised and weaponized by the group.