Update now!  Microsoft patches Follina, and many other security updates

The scheme, from the group also known as APT28, involves targeting Eastern European diplomats in need of personal transportation and tempting them with a purported good deal on a Audi Q7 Quattro SUV.

Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities Categories: News Tags: Zoho ManageEngine Tags: CVE-2021-40539 Tags: Log4Shell Tags: CVE-2021-44228 Tags: CVE-2021-13379 Tags: ProxyShell Tags: CVE-2021-34473 Tags: CVE-2021-31207 Tags: CVE-2021-34523 Tags: CVE-2021-26084 Tags: Atlassian Tags: CVE-2022-22954 Tags: CVE-2022-22960 Tags: CVE-2022-26134 Tags: CVE-2022-1388 Tags: CVE-2022-30190 Tags: Follina What can the routinely exploited vulnerabilities of 2022 tell us, and what do we think will make it on to next year's list? (Read more...) The post 2022's most routinely exploited vulnerabilities—history repeats appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

By Waqas LokiBot, a notorious Trojan active since 2015, specializes in stealing sensitive information from Windows machines, posing a significant threat to user data. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New Attack Drops LokiBot Malware Via Malicious Macros in Word Docs

The threat actor known as Asylum Ambuscade has been observed straddling cybercrime and cyber espionage operations since at least early 2020. "It is a crimeware group that targets bank customers and cryptocurrency traders in various regions, including North America and Europe," ESET said in an analysis published Thursday. "Asylum Ambuscade also does espionage against government entities in Europe

Government and diplomatic entities in the Middle East and South Asia are the target of a new advanced persistent threat actor named GoldenJackal. Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky, which has been keeping tabs on the group's activities since mid-2020, characterized the adversary as both capable and stealthy. The targeting scope of the campaign is focused on Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq,

Nearly 20% of the zero-day flaws that attackers exploited in 2022 were in network, security, and IT management products, Mandiant says.

Squiz Matrix CMS 6.20 is vulnerable to an Insecure Direct Object Reference caused by failure to correctly validate authorization when submitting a request to change a user's contact details.

The most heavily targeted flaw last quarter was a remote code execution vulnerability in Microsoft Office that was disclosed and patched four years ago.

As many as 121 new security flaws were patched by Microsoft as part of its Patch Tuesday updates for the month of August, which also includes a fix for a Support Diagnostic Tool vulnerability that the company said is being actively exploited in the wild. Of the 121 bugs, 17 are rated Critical, 102 are rated Important, one is rated Moderate, and one is rated Low in severity. Two of the issues

The Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence team has discovered a new Remote Access Trojan that we dubbed Woody Rat used to target Russian entities. The post Woody RAT: A new feature-rich malware spotted in the wild appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Hello everyone! This will be an episode about the Microsoft vulnerabilities that were released on June Patch Tuesday and also between May and June Patch Tuesdays. Alternative video link (for Russia): https://vk.com/video-149273431_456239094 On June Patch Tuesday, June 14, 56 vulnerabilities were released. Between May and June Patch Tuesdays, 38 vulnerabilities were released. This gives us 94 […]

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has cautioned of a new set of spear-phishing attacks exploiting the "Follina" flaw in the Windows operating system to deploy password-stealing malware. Attributing the intrusions to a Russian nation-state group tracked as APT28 (aka Fancy Bear or Sofacy), the agency said the attacks commence with a lure document titled "Nuclear Terrorism

By Jon Munshaw.  Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter.  I’m still decompressing from Cisco Live and the most human interaction I’ve had in a year and a half.   But after spending a few days on the show floor and interacting with everyone, there are a... [[ This is only the beginning! Please visit the blog for the complete entry ]]

Windows Network File System Remote Code Execution Vulnerability.

Windows Hyper-V Remote Code Execution Vulnerability.

Windows Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2022-30141, CVE-2022-30143, CVE-2022-30146, CVE-2022-30149, CVE-2022-30153, CVE-2022-30161.

Microsoft on Tuesday released software updates to fix 60 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and other software, including a zero-day flaw in all supported Microsoft Office versions on all flavors of Windows that's seen active exploitation for at least two months now. On a lighter note, Microsoft is officially retiring its Internet Explorer (IE) web browser, which turns 27 years old this year.

Microsoft on Tuesday released software updates to fix 60 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and other software, including a zero-day flaw in all supported Microsoft Office versions on all flavors of Windows that's seen active exploitation for at least two months now. On a lighter note, Microsoft is officially retiring its Internet Explorer (IE) web browser, which turns 27 years old this year.

Microsoft officially released fixes to address an actively exploited Windows zero-day vulnerability known as Follina as part of its Patch Tuesday updates. Also addressed by the tech giant are 55 other flaws, three of which are rated Critical, 51 are rated Important, and one is rated Moderate in severity. Separately, five other shortcomings were resolved in the Microsoft Edge browser. <!-

Microsoft officially released fixes to address an actively exploited Windows zero-day vulnerability known as Follina as part of its Patch Tuesday updates. Also addressed by the tech giant are 55 other flaws, three of which are rated Critical, 51 are rated Important, and one is rated Moderate in severity. Separately, five other shortcomings were resolved in the Microsoft Edge browser. <!-

Here are which Microsoft patches to prioritize among the June Patch Tuesday batch.

By Chetan Raghuprasad. Microsoft released its monthly security update Tuesday, disclosing 55 vulnerabilities in the company’s firmware and software. One of these vulnerabilities is considered critical, 40 are listed as high severity, and the remainder is considered "moderate."  The most... [[ This is only the beginning! Please visit the blog for the complete entry ]]

By Chetan Raghuprasad. Microsoft released its monthly security update Tuesday, disclosing 55 vulnerabilities in the company’s firmware and software. One of these vulnerabilities is considered critical, 40 are listed as high severity, and the remainder is considered "moderate."  The most... [[ This is only the beginning! Please visit the blog for the complete entry ]]

An unofficial security patch has been made available for a new Windows zero-day vulnerability in the Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool (MSDT), even as the Follina flaw continues to be exploited in the wild. The issue — referenced as DogWalk — relates to a path traversal flaw that can be exploited to stash a malicious executable file to the Windows Startup folder when a potential target opens a

This Metasploit module generates a malicious Microsoft Word document that when loaded, will leverage the remote template feature to fetch an HTML document and then use the ms-msdt scheme to execute PowerShell code.

A suspected state-aligned threat actor has been attributed to a new set of attacks exploiting the Microsoft Office "Follina" vulnerability to target government entities in Europe and the U.S. Enterprise security firm Proofpoint said it blocked attempts at exploiting the remote code execution flaw, which is being tracked CVE-2022-30190 (CVSS score: 7.8). No less than 1,000 phishing messages

By Jon Munshaw.  Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter.  Many of you readers may be gearing up for a West Coast swing over the next few weeks through San Francisco and Las Vegas for RSA and Cisco Live, respectively. And we’re right behind you!   Talos... [[ This is only the beginning! Please visit the blog for the complete entry ]]

FAQ for the new Follina zero-day vulnerability. What you can do to protect your computers right now. The post FAQ: Mitigating Microsoft Office’s ‘Follina’ zero-day appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

By Waqas The Follina vulnerability was originally discovered after a malicious Microsoft Word document was uploaded on VirusTotal from a… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Unofficial Micropatch for Follina Released as Chinese Hackers Exploit the 0-day

"Follina" vulnerability in Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool (MSDT) affects all currently supported Windows versions and can be triggered via specially crafted Office documents.

Microsoft on Monday published guidance for a newly discovered zero-day security flaw in its Office productivity suite that could be exploited to achieve code execution on affected systems. The weakness, now assigned the identifier CVE-2022-30190, is rated 7.8 out of 10 for severity on the CVSS vulnerability scoring system. Microsoft Office versions Office 2013, Office 2016, Office 2019, and

On Monday May 30, 2022, Microsoft issued CVE-2022-30190 regarding the Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool (MSDT) in Windows vulnerability. A remote code execution vulnerability exists when MSDT is called using the URL protocol from a calling application such as Word. An attacker who successfully exploits this vulnerability can run arbitrary code with the privileges of the … Guidance for CVE-2022-30190 Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool Vulnerability Read More »

Hello everyone! This episode will be about Microsoft Patch Tuesday for May 2022. Sorry for the delay, this month has been quite intense. As usual, I’m using my Vulristics project and going through not only the vulnerabilities that were presented on May 10th, but all the MS vulnerabilities presented by Microsoft since the previous Patch […]

By Waqas The latest edition of Patch Tuesday offers fixes for 7 critical flaws, including 5 RCE (remote code execution)… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Microsoft Patch Tuesday: Fixes for 0-Day and 74 Other Flaws Released

May's Patch Tuesday includes one actively exploited zero-day vulnerability and some other interesting ones. The post Update now! Microsoft releases patches, including one for actively exploited zero-day appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Microsoft's May Patch Tuesday roundup also included critical fixes for a number of flaws found in infrastructure present in many enterprise and cloud environments.

Microsoft on Tuesday rolled out fixes for as many as 74 security vulnerabilities, including one for a zero-day bug that's being actively exploited in the wild. Of the 74 issues, seven are rated Critical, 66 are rated Important, and one is rated low in severity. Two of the flaws are listed as publicly known at the time of release. These encompass 24 remote code execution (RCE), 21 elevation of

Microsoft today released updates to fix at least 74 separate security problems in its Windows operating systems and related software. This month's patch batch includes fixes for seven "critical" flaws, as well as a zero-day vulnerability that affects all supported versions of Windows.

Microsoft's May 2022 Patch Tuesday contains several bugs in ubiquitous software that could affect millions of machines, researchers warn.

Windows Network File System Remote Code Execution Vulnerability.

By Jon Munshaw, with contributions from Jaeson Schultz.  Microsoft returned to its normal monthly patching volume in May, disclosing and fixing 74 vulnerabilities as part of the company’s latest security update. This month’s Patch Tuesday includes seven critical vulnerabilities after Microsoft... [[ This is only the beginning! Please visit the blog for the complete entry ]]