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

The first Patch Tuesday fixes shipped by Microsoft for 2023 have addressed a total of 98 security flaws, including one bug that the company said is being actively exploited in the wild. 11 of the 98 issues are rated Critical and 87 are rated Important in severity, with the vulnerabilities also listed as publicly known at the time of release. Separately, the Windows maker is expected to release

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

Cloud services provider Rackspace on Thursday confirmed that the ransomware gang known as Play was responsible for last month's breach. The security incident, which took place on December 2, 2022, leveraged a previously unknown security exploit to gain initial access to the Rackspace Hosted Exchange email environment. "This zero-day exploit is associated with CVE-2022-41080," the Texas-based

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.

The Play ransomware group was spotted exploiting another little-known SSRF bug to trigger RCE on affected Exchange servers.

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,

Hello everyone! This episode will be about Microsoft Patch Tuesday for November 2022, including vulnerabilities that were added between October and November Patch Tuesdays. As usual, I use my open source Vulristics project to create the report. Alternative video link (for Russia): https://vk.com/video-149273431_456239107 The most important news of this Patch Tuesday was a release of patches […]

Microsoft Exchange Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

By Deeba Ahmed Microsoft has urged Windows Administrators to install the updates urgently so make sure you have the latest patches installed! This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Microsoft Issues Patches to Fix 6 Active 0-Day Windows Vulnerabilities

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.

Microsoft released its monthly security update on Tuesday, disclosing 62 vulnerabilities. Of these vulnerabilities, 8 are classified as “Critical” and the rest are classified as “Important.”