Once a user interacts with the file – even by simply navigating to its folder – Windows initiates an SMB authentication request, leaking the NTLMv2-SSP hash to an attacker-controlled server. Although ...

Specifically, the vulnerability can be exploited to leak a victim's Net-NTLMv2 or NTLMv2-SSP hash over the network. According to Check Point, miscreants can "attempt to brute-force the hash ...

These will include all versions of NTLM including LANMAN, NTLMv1 and NTLMv2. However, alongside that, the tech giant has also added that it would continue to work on the "next release of Windows ...