Microsoft Defender ATP is detecting yesterday's Chrome update as a backdoor

Microsoft commercial antivirus product is labeling Chrome's latest update as being infected with the Funvalget backdoor.

Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP), the commercial version of the ubiquitous Defender antivirus and Microsoft's top enterprise security solution, is currently having a bad day and labeling yesterday's Google Chrome browser update as a backdoor trojan.

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The detections, as can be seen in a screenshot above shared with ZDNet by one of our readers, are for Google Chrome 88.0.4324.146, the latest version of the Chrome browser, which Google released last night.

As per the screenshot above, but also based on reports shared on Twitter by other dismayed system administrators, Defender ATP is currently detecting multiple files part of the Chrome v88.0.4324.146 update package as containing a generic backdoor trojan named "PHP/Funvalget.A."

The alerts have caused quite a stir in enterprise environments in light of recent multiple software supply chain attacks that have hit companies across the world over the past few months.

System administrators are currently awaiting a formal statement from Microsoft to confirm that the detection is a "false possitive" and not an actual threat.

ATP is triggering on C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\88.0.4324.146\Locales\sk.pak

— Dark Defender (@ShadyDefender) February 3, 2021

Hey @msftsecresponse - Seeing lots of Defender ATP alerts this morning on C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\88.0.4324.104\Locales\sl.pak detected as PHP/Funvalget.A. Can you confirm this is a false positive? SHA256 in reply.

— W. David Winslow (@wdwinslow) February 3, 2021

Defender detected sl.pak as 'Backdoor:PHP/Funvalget.A'

C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\88.0.4324.146\Locales\sl.pak

Defender detected chrome.7z as 'Backdoor:PHP/Funvalget.A'

C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\88.0.4324.146\Installer\chrome.7z

— itquartz (@itquartz) February 3, 2021

ZDNet has contacted a Microsoft spokesperson before this article publication, seeking a formal statement on the ATP detections.

Chances are that this is indeed an erroneous detection, but until a formal announcement, administrators are advised to wait before taking other actions.

The free version of the Microsoft Defender antivirus, the one that ships with all recent Windows versions, has not detected the recent Chrome update as malicious, according to multiple ZDNet tests.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-defender-atp-is-detecting-yesterdays-chrome-update-as-a-backdoor/?ftag=TRE-03-10aaa6b&bhid=21735961543072688253262375158449&mid=13255506&cid=717936240

Bill Gates Has a New $1bn Yacht That Shows He Is Morally Superior to You Because It’s Hydrogen-Powered

Highly moral yacht

For an environmentally conscious billionaire, what better way to combine luxury with your green credentials?

Bill Gates has commissioned the world’s first hydrogen-powered superyacht – believed to cost $860 million, giving him bragging rights over other ultra-rich seafarers.

The Sunday Telegraph can reveal the retired 64-year-old is behind the construction of the cutting-edge cruiser by Dutch superyacht specialist Feadship.

The custom build is based on blueprints for the 372ft (113 metre) vessel Aqua publicised at the Monaco Yacht Show last year by Dutch marine architects Sinot. It said the plans took “inspiration from the lifestyle of a discerning, forward-looking owner”.

Gates, who co-founded Microsoft and is the world’s second-richest person, is a regular superyacht holidaymaker but has not owned one, preferring to rent for summer trips around the Mediterranean.

His new vessel, scheduled to go to sea in 2024, will not measure up to some of the largest cruisers such as the 535ft (163 metre) Eclipse commissioned by Roman Abramovich, the oligarch owner of Chelsea Football Club, but its hydrogen power is a signal of Gates’s belief that investment in new clean technology is the best way to cut carbon emissions.

The designs for Aqua include two 28-ton vacuum-sealed tanks to store liquid hydrogen at -252C. The fuel will generate power for the two 1 megawatt motors and for passengers via fuel cells, which combine hydrogen with oxygen from the air to emit only electricity and water. Sinot claims the system offers a top speed of 17 knots, cruising speed of 10 to 12 knots and range of 3,750 nautical miles, more than enough to cross the Atlantic.

The yacht is the latest sign of Gates’s longstanding interest in alternative fuels. He is an investor in Heliogen, a California start-up which uses smart software to control mirrors and focus the sun’s rays to generate extreme heat. It aims to create clean hydrogen gas by splitting water molecules without using fossil fuels.

Most hydrogen is currently produced by processes that produce carbon dioxide. It is possible, but much more expensive, to use electricity from renewable sources.

Gates, who has pledged to give most of his estimated $118 billion (pounds 92 billion) fortune to good causes via the Gates Foundation, has argued that investment in new energy systems is a better way to cut carbon emissions than forcing investors to pull out of oil companies when the economy must still rely on fossil fuels to some extent.

Last year he said: “We can build on the progress we’ve made deploying current technology like renewables, which will help accelerate the transition from fossil fuels to a future of reliable and affordable carbon-free electricity. We need big breakthroughs in technologies that will allow us to supply the power grid with clean energy even during windless days, cloudy weather and nighttime.”

Despite Gates’s enthusiasm for hydrogen power, shipbuilding sources said that the plans for his superyacht include diesel back-up, due to the scarcity of hydrogen refuelling stations. It is understood the project includes plans to establish facilities at the superyacht’s home port.

The billionaire’s plans for the vessel’s accommodation are unclear, but in the marketing materials for Aqua the designers suggest an armoured glass window to view the liquid hydrogen tanks and a gym with “massive, gym-wide hatch which opens to reveal the ocean’s surface at water level, creating the perception of exercising and relaxing on an island in the sea”.

The concept includes a “spectacular, extremely spacious” owner’s pavilion, occupying the forward half of the upper deck and offering “an abundance of privacy”. Meanwhile “the VIP cabin and other state rooms are focused on openness, luxury and comfort, providing a maximum sense of freedom in a highly detailed minimalist Japanese beach-style setting”, said Sinot.

The Gates Foundation and Gates Ventures, Gates’s investment vehicle, declined to comment.

https://anti-empire.com/bill-gates-has-a-new-1bn-yacht-that-shows-he-is-morally-superior-to-you-because-its-hydrogen-powered/

Ryan Girdusky: Lincoln Project Is Part Grift, Part Grooming Operation for John Weaver

“The Lincoln Project has always been just two things: a grift for people to make money and a grooming organization for John Weaver to meet young men to try to get them in bed,” said Ryan Girdusky, journalist and author of They’re Not Listening: How The Elites Created the National Populist Revolution, on Tuesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

Girdusky broke the news that John Weaver, a co-founder of the Lincoln Project, allegedly sought sexual contact with young men in exchange for jobs in politics.

Girdusky began investigating accusations of Weaver’s sexual solicitations from young men after being followed by Weaver on Twitter.

“Within a day [of Weaver following me on Twitter], young men started coming forward and saying to me that I should be on the lookout,” Girdusky stated. “They said, ‘This is what John Weaver does. He reached out to young men like me and he says I can give you a job opportunity if you promise me sex in the end.’ It’s three young guys who reached out to me very early on.”

Girdusky added, “I was trying to find out how many people possibly know about John Weaver, and it became very abundantly clear very early on that everyone knew. If you worked politics, there was no way you did not know about John Weaver and his actions towards young men, preying on young men.”

Republican strategist and political pundit Karl Rove said on Monday that he knew of Weaver’s “pattern of behavior” since 1988.

George Conway, a co-founder of the Lincoln Project, claimed he did not know Weaver “very well” in a segment with MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski.

“It was shocking how many people knew,” Girdusky remarked. “Another very well-known household Never Trumper columnist writer [who has] been around a long time was asked to join the Lincoln Project and said, ‘No, I won’t work with John Weaver because of he’s a disgusting person. So [the idea that] the only people who did not know about John Weaver were the people in the Lincoln Project project is insane. … There was no way they did not know.”

Girdusky emphasized, “There was no way on God’s green Earth that you could have worked in professional Washington, DC, national-level politics and have not heard these rumors.”

Girdusky highlighted left-wing news media’s disinterest in the accusations against Weaver. He said, “mainstream media” has “totally ignored the topic” aside from Brzezinski inviting Conway’s remarks without asking him a question.

Girdusky said Lincoln Project members have appeared in 21 television interviews since his original report on January 11. He said, “Mainstream media never asked [Lincoln Project members], ‘Hey, what’s the story about that you co-founder using your organization to sit there and groom young men?'”

Marlow stated, “Ultimately, the real villain here is — Weaver, to a degree — but it is really the media.”

Weaver’s accusers now total over 100 young men, Girdusky observed, adding reported totals from the New York Times, Scott Stedman, and his own reporting.

“I can tell you it’s over 100 men in a five-year period,” Girdusky said. “If you add all three articles together with their different sources, it’s over 100.”

Some of the young men accusing Weaver of sexual solicitations are leftists who were reluctant to share their allegations for fear of damaging the “Never Trump” campaign, Girdusky shared.

“So many of these young men who came forward to me early on were leftists,” Girdusky explained. “Many of them were afraid to come forward because they were afraid of retribution from John Weaver, but I will say there were a few of them who said, ‘I don’t want to hurt the anti-Trump movement,’ and that’s among the victims.”

The New York Times reported, “[Weaver’s] solicitations included sending messages to a 14-year-old, asking questions about his body while he was still in high school and then more pointed ones after he turned 18.”

“The youngest boy — and it was a boy that John Weaver was reaching out to — was 14 years old when John Weaver was 57 years old,” Girdusky said. “How on Earth is that consensual?”

Girdsuky assessed the Lincoln Project’s lack of denials against his reporting as rooted in fear of litigation.

Girdusky concluded, “I think the reason that not a single member of the Lincoln Project ever try to deny anything I said publicly — nothing, they’ve never denied one thing, even when it first came out — [is that] they would never want to go to discovery, to go look through their emails, and text messages, and DMs, and everything and see what they knew when they knew it because they knew.”

The Lincoln Project raised over $87 million since its launch at the end of 2019.

https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2021/02/02/ryan-girdusky-lincoln-project-part-grift-part-grooming-operation-john-weaver/

Biden Regime Moves Swiftly to Impose Communist Agenda

Having brought down the American Republic by unlawfully seizing Executive and Legislative power, the communists and their jihadi/globalist cabal now control the U.S. federal government.

This regime is placing communists, jihadis, and anti-American atheists in the Cabinet, and in key positions throughout the regime.

The current regime is wasting no time in moving to ensure liberty is snuffed out before Patriots can rally to the cause.

In the first five (5) business days in office, the Biden/Harris regime has already moved to do the following:

*Restricted efforts by ICE to remove criminals illegally inside the United States from local communities

*Included people illegally inside the United States in the U.S. Census in violation of the law

*Cancelled the Keystone project and rejoined the U.S. to the Paris Climate Accords

*Terminated all construction/funding for a wall at the U.S. Southern border

And all of the above – and more – took place on Day One.

Mr. Biden also…

*Signed numerous orders which strengthens the use of the “covid pandemic” as a tool of oppression against the American people, including the use of military troops

*Expanded tax-payer funded social programs including food assistance, unemployment insurance, and other programs further socializing and bloating/bankrupting the federal government

*Is moving to make the District of Columbia (Washington, D.C. for those of us who went to public school) a state in the United States in violation of Articles I, IV, and others of the U.S. Constitution

*Reversed the ban on transgenders in the military and opened the doors nationally and internationally to more abortions, many of which will be increasingly tax-payer funded

The current regime dubs those who speak out about injustices – voter fraud, abuse of power, and the like – as “domestic terrorists.” It will not be long before they begin rounding people up as was done in the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and under Mao’s rule. If you think that is “overboard” you do not understand where this is heading.

Make no mistake, all efforts by Patriots should be considered “counter-revolutionary” since the enemies of liberty have unlawfully and unconstitutionally seized power. Those who have sworn an oath to “protect and defend” have a duty to obey only lawful orders which conform to the moral standard of the founding principles. See our article HERE for more on that.

While this situation appears grave, there is great hope. Local citizens working together to identify and root out hostile actors from their LOCAL communities can, one county at a time, create strongholds for liberty from which we can grow liberty.

UTT is ready to help your community. The time is now. Get trained and get in the war or fund the war effort.

https://redoubtnews.com/2021/02/biden-regime-moves-swiftly-to-impose-communist-agenda/

Inside Colombia's FOUR BILLION DOLLAR jungle cocaine labs where country's largest guerrilla group produced and ship tons of Class A drug to El Chapo's Sinaloa cartel

The Colombian military seized two clandestine laboratories where the country's largest guerrilla group generated up to $4 billion in cocaine a year that was then delivered to Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán's old cartel in Mexico.

Video released by the South American nation's attorney general's office shows the moment soldiers descended from a helicopter and raided one of the two compounds that had been set up by the National Liberation Army in a forest located in the Pacific department of Nariño on Saturday.

Security forces were aided by agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration and were able to confiscate 2,800 kilos worth at least $95 million.

At least 600 kilos of cocaine paste were also seized from the laboratories, which contained six shops, along with precursor chemicals which included acetone, hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid and caustic soda.

Colombia's Attorney General's Office estimated that the two laboratories produced at least three to four tons of cocaine a month or 87,000 kilos.

Investigators learned that the cocaine shipments were loaded into speedboats that departed from the Pacific shoreline of Cumbitara, a town near the border with Ecuador.

http://www.womensystems.com/2021/02/inside-colombias-four-billion-dollar.html

Closer and Closer to the End: More Sickness and More Murder by the State

After writing about the premeditated murder of those accepting and taking this bioweapon called a Covid ‘vaccine’ two days ago, things continue to deteriorate as the state’s tyrannical agendas move forward at an accelerated pace. People are dying all around this country and the world in large numbers after taking this deadly concoction of infectious material, toxins, and bioweapon poisons. Stories abound telling of nursing home deaths where more are dying than did all last year in just a few days after receiving this pharmaceutical weapon. This is easy for the state perpetrators to cover up because they can adjust the PCR testing to show positives, and simply continue to blame a virus that does not exist for all the deaths.

In addition, the new ‘mutations’ or ‘strains’ that were promised by those committing this fraud, are now being claimed to exist. So long as a new strain can be paraded out as real, more ‘vaccinations’ will be offered, each doing more harm than the last, and each able to achieve more control over the people’s minds and bodies, while killing off the undesirables. It is my opinion that each vaccine stage presented has different ingredients that act and react in concert with each other, all causing great harm in multiple ways while building an operating system meant to be used to control the population through technological means. The effects will range from horrible sickness immediately, to the time release of possible other diseases, to immune system destruction, to RNA/DNA nanoparticle invasion of the brain, and to death. It is also likely as I see it, for bioweapon technology to be used to target certain individuals and groups through these injections. Genocide, or more accurately, democide, will take place as long planned by the eugenist masters controlling this scam from the top.

The children are slated to become the next large group to be injected with this weapon, because that will allow the state more control over all future generations once those of us in the way can be eliminated. Large numbers of parents seem to be on board with this heinous assault on the young, and the horrific public school systems will be used to force more to take this ‘vaccine,’ and to continue getting injected every year the rest of their lives by making it mandatory to attend.

Everything happening has long been designed, and is now being implemented in open sight. This fraudulent ‘vaccine’ that is not a vaccine, is of great importance to the ruling class, and is being used as a weapon to control and to kill Americans. Nothing could be more obvious, as taking over all property, the entire economic system, resetting the whole of the monetary structure, and digitizing the world requires control over the people. This bioweapon called the Covid-19 ‘vaccine’ is a major part of this criminal cabal, and will serve as a way to advance and sustain the new Communistic and technocratic state.

https://www.garydbarnett.com/closer-and-closer-to-the-end-more-sickness-and-more-murder-by-the-state/

Doctor uses Vape Aerosols to show just how much masks don't work