CVE-2022-41080

A predictable patch cadence is nice, but the software giant can do more.

Categories: Threat Intelligence Our Threat Intelligence team looks at known ransomware attacks by gang, country, and industry sector in December 2022, and looks at why LockBit had to make a public apology (Read more...) The post Ransomware in December 2022 appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

By Waqas Cybercriminals are leveraging two exploit chains (ProxyNotShell/OWASSRF) to target Microsoft Exchange servers, as warned by Bitdefender Labs. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New Wave of Cyberattacks Targeting MS Exchange Servers

Organizations often defer patching because of business disruption fears — but that didn't work out very well for Rackspace's Hosted Exchange service.

The hosting services provider shared new details on the breach that took down its Hosted Exchange Email service.

The hosting provider had not applied Microsoft's new patch due to publicly reported issues with the update.

Threat actors affiliated with a ransomware strain known as Play are leveraging a never-before-seen exploit chain that bypasses blocking rules for ProxyNotShell flaws in Microsoft Exchange Server to achieve remote code execution (RCE) through Outlook Web Access (OWA). "The new exploit method bypasses URL rewrite mitigations for the Autodiscover endpoint," CrowdStrike researchers Brian Pitchford,

Microsoft Exchange Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2022-41123.

Microsoft's latest round of monthly security updates has been released with fixes for 68 vulnerabilities spanning its software portfolio, including patches for six actively exploited zero-days. 12 of the issues are rated Critical, two are rated High, and 55 are rated Important in severity. This also includes the weaknesses that were closed out by OpenSSL the previous week. Also separately

Let's face it: Having “2022 election” in the headline above is probably the only reason anyone might read this story today. Still, while most of us here in the United States are anxiously awaiting the results of how well we've patched our Democracy, it seems fitting that Microsoft Corp. today released gobs of security patches for its ubiquitous Windows operating systems. November's patch batch includes fixes for a whopping six zero-day security vulnerabilities that miscreants and malware are already exploiting in the wild.