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De Vries was gunned down in broad daylight on a busy Amsterdam street in July 2021, sparking an outpouring of grief and spotlighting the country’s drug gang underworld.
Authorities believe gunmen targeted De Vries, 64, due to his role as advisor to a key witness in the case of drug kingpin Ridouan Taghi.
Police arrested two suspects, identified only as Dutchman Delano G. and Kamil E. from Poland, shortly after the shooting. Prosecutors have called for a life sentence.
Prosecutors believe Delano G. pulled the trigger and Kamil E. drove the getaway car and carried out surveillance prior to the shooting.
Seven men suspected of organizing and facilitating the killing have been added to the trial.
All nine suspects either denied the charges or invoked their right to silence. Hearings have taken place in an extra high security “bunker” at the court in Amsterdam.
A video showing De Vries seriously injured circulated after the attack. Partly because of this, prosecutors charged the suspects with “murder with terrorist intent.”
Thousands of mourners filed past his coffin in Amsterdam following his death, paying respect to a journalist described as a “national hero.”
‘Narco-state’
De Vries first shot to prominence as an intrepid crime reporter for the daily newspaper De Telegraaf — writing a best-selling book about the 1980s kidnapping of beer millionaire Freddy Heineken.
The book was later turned into a 2015 movie “Kidnapping Freddy Heineken”, starring Anthony Hopkins in the title role.
The celebrity journalist then moved into television, where he ran his own crime program called “Peter R. de Vries, Crime Reporter.”
De Vries won international renown in 2008 after winning an Emmy Award for his coverage of the disappearance of US citizen Natalee Holloway on the Caribbean island of Aruba.
From 2020, he was an advisor and confidant of Nabil B., the main prosecution witness in the case against Taghi, described as the country’s most wanted criminal.
De Vries revealed in 2019 that authorities had informed him he was on a hit-list drawn up by Taghi, who in February received a life sentence over a series of murders committed by his gang.
Nabil B.’s brother Reduan was killed in 2018, and his lawyer Derk Wiersum was shot dead in 2019.
Together with the assassination of De Vries, the three killings together sparked warnings that the country was becoming a “narco-state.”
The threat touched the top levels of Dutch society.
Crown Princess Amalia, the daughter of King Willem-Alexander, was forced to move to Spain for her studies due to fears of an attack from an organized crime group.
Both the royal and Prime Minister Mark Rutte were mentioned in messages by organized crime groups, raising fears of plans to kidnap or attack them.
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Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for June 2024 addressed 49 vulnerabilities in Windows and Windows Components; Office and Office Components; Azure; Dynamics Business Central; and Visual Studio. Eight of these bugs were reported through the ZDI program.
Only one of these issues is rated Critical and 48 are rated Important in severity.
Only one of these vulnerabilities is listed as publicly known. Fortunately, none are being actively exploited in the wild.
The most severe issue is a Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-30080 (CVSS score 9.8).
Remote, unauthenticated attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges of systems where MSMQ is enabled. The flaw is wormable between those servers where MSMQ is disabled.
“To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need to send a specially crafted malicious MSMQ packet to a MSMQ server. This could result in remote code execution on the server side.” reads the advisory.
The publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-50868 (CVSS score 7.5), is regarding a vulnerability in DNSSEC validation. An attacker could exploit standard DNSSEC protocols intended for DNS integrity by using excessive resources on a resolver, causing a denial of service for legitimate users. MITRE created this CVE on their behalf.
Another interesting issue addressed by Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for June 2024 is a Windows Wi-Fi Driver Remote Code Execution vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-30078 (CVSS score 8.8). An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability to execute code on an affected system by sending the target a specially crafted network packet. The target would need to be in Wi-Fi range of the attacker and using a Wi-Fi adapter.
“Exploiting this vulnerability requires an attacker to be within proximity of the target system to send and receive radio transmissions.” reads the advisory. “An unauthenticated attacker could send a malicious networking packet to an adjacent system that is employing a Wi-Fi networking adapter, which could enable remote code execution.”
The full list of vulnerabilities addressed by Microsoft for June 2024 is available here:
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/blog/2024/6/11/the-june-2024-security-update-review
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