Windows under attack from Chinese threat actors: Microsoft

San Francisco: Tech giant Microsoft has alerted users about the latest malware campaigns and cyber threats and informed them that China-based state-sponsored threat actor group Hafnium is stirring the pot once again. According to Windows Central, this time, the alert is for Tarrask, a "defense evasion malware" that uses Windows Task Scheduler to hide a device's compromised status from itself. "As Microsoft continues to track the high-priority state-sponsored threat actor HAFNIUM, new activity has been uncovered that leverages unpatched zero-day vulnerabilities as initial vectors," the company said in a [blogpost](//www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2021/03/02/hafnium-targeting-exchange-servers/) . The attack comes from Hafnium, the state-sponsored, China-based group…