By: Davey Winder
The United States Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has gone public with a warning to Microsoft Windows users regarding a critical security vulnerability. By issuing the “update now” warning, CISA has joined the likes of Microsoft itself and the National Security Agency (NSA) in warning Windows users of the danger from the BlueKeep vulnerability.
This latest warning, and many would argue the one with most gravitas, comes hot on the heels of Yaniv Balmas, the global head of cyber research at security vendor Check Point, telling me in an interview for SC Magazine UK that “it’s now a race against the clock by cyber criminals which makes this vulnerability a ticking cyber bomb.” Balmas also predicted that it will only be “a matter of weeks” before attackers started exploiting BlueKeep.