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Microsoft today released updates to plug at least 89 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software. November's patch batch includes fixes for two zero-day vulnerabilities that are already being exploited by attackers, as well as two other flaws that were publicly disclosed prior to today.

I transformed my English-language site avleonov.com. While my Russian-language site avleonov.ru was intended as a mirror of my Telegram channel @avleonovrus, I wasn’t sure how to move forward with the English-language site. 🤔 I’ve been running it since 2016. For a long time, it was my main VM blog. Since February 2020, I have been […]

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is urging police departments and governments worldwide to beef up security around their email systems, citing a recent increase in cybercriminal services that use hacked police email accounts to send unauthorized subpoenas and customer data requests to U.S.-based technology companies.

A 26-year-old man in Ontario, Canada has been arrested for allegedly stealing data from and extorting more than 160 companies that used the cloud data service Snowflake. On October 30, Canadian authorities arrested Alexander Moucka, a.k.a. Connor Riley Moucka of Kitchener, Ontario, on a provisional arrest warrant from the United States. Bloomberg first reported Moucka's alleged ties to the Snowflake hacks on Monday. At the end of 2023, malicious hackers learned that many large companies had uploaded huge volumes of sensitive customer data to Snowflake accounts that were protected with little more than a username and password (no multi-factor authentication required). After scouring darknet markets for stolen Snowflake account credentials, the hackers began raiding the data storage repositories used by some of the world’s largest corporations.

A number of cybercriminal innovations are making it easier for scammers to cash in on your upcoming travel plans. This story examines a recent spear-phishing campaign that ensued when a California hotel had its booking.com credentials stolen. We'll also explore an array of cybercrime services aimed at phishers who target hotels that rely on the world's most visited travel website.

About Remote Code Execution – XWiki Platform (CVE-2024-31982) vulnerability. XWiki is a free open-source wiki platform. Its main feature is simplified extensibility. XWiki is often used in corporate environments as a replacement for commercial Wiki solutions (such as Atlassian Confluence). A vulnerability with CVSS Base Score 10, published on April 10, allows attackers to execute […]

Change Healthcare says it has notified approximately 100 million Americans that their personal, financial and healthcare records may have been stolen in a February 2024 ransomware attack that caused the largest ever known data breach of protected health information.

What is known about the Spoofing – Windows MSHTML Platform (CVE-2024-43573) vulnerability from the October Microsoft Patch Tuesday? In fact, just that it is being exploited in the wild. There are no write-ups or public exploits yet. The Acknowledgements section in the Microsoft bulletin is empty. It is not clear who reported it and from […]

The severity of the Remote Code Execution – Microsoft SharePoint (CVE-2024-38094) vulnerability has increased. It was fixed as part of the July Microsoft Patch Tuesday (July 9). SharePoint is a popular platform for corporate portals. According to the Microsoft bulletin, аn authenticated attacker with Site Owner permissions can use the vulnerability to inject arbitrary code […]

On Monday, October 21, updates for the critical Remote Code Execution – VMware vCenter (CVE-2024-38812) vulnerability were released again. Wait, haven’t fixes for this vulnerability been available since September 17th? They were, but it was not enough. “VMware by Broadcom has determined that the vCenter patches released on September 17, 2024 did not completely address […]