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The payment card giant MasterCard just fixed a glaring error in its domain name server settings that could have allowed anyone to intercept or divert Internet traffic for the company by registering an unused domain name. The misconfiguration persisted for nearly five years until a security researcher spent $300 to register the domain and prevent it from being grabbed by cybercriminals.

I have finalized the list of trending vulnerabilities for 2024 according to Positive Technologies. Last year, 74 vulnerabilities were classified as trending (to compare the scale, just over 40,000 were added to NVD in 2024). All trending vulnerabilities are found in Western commercial products and open source projects. This year, the vulnerabilities of domestic Russian […]

January Linux Patch Wednesday. Out of 424 total vulnerabilities, 271 are in the Linux Kernel. None show signs of exploitation in the wild, but 9 have public exploits. 🔸 RCE – Apache Tomcat (CVE-2024-56337). Based on the description, the vulnerability affects “case-insensitive file systems” like Windows or MacOS. However, Debian lists it as affecting tomcat9 […]

Residents across the United States are being inundated with text messages purporting to come from toll road operators like E-ZPass, warning that recipients face fines if a delinquent toll fee remains unpaid. Researchers say the surge in SMS spam coincides with new features added to a popular commercial phishing kit sold in China that makes it simple to set up convincing lures spoofing toll road operators in multiple U.S. states.

The Elevation of Privilege – Windows Common Log File System Driver (CVE-2024-49138) has become more critical. Just as I wrote that nothing had been heard about this vulnerability for a month since it was first published in Microsoft’s December Patch Tuesday, a public exploit for it appeared on January 15th. 🙂 It was developed by […]

What has become known about the Elevation of Privilege – Windows Common Log File System Driver (CVE-2024-49138) vulnerability from the December Microsoft Patch Tuesday a month later? Almost nothing. 🙄 This is a vulnerability in a standard Windows component, available in all versions starting with Windows Server 2003 R2. Its description is typical for EoP […]

January Microsoft Patch Tuesday. 170 CVEs, 10 of them were added since December MSPT. 3 exploited in the wild: 🔻 EoP – Windows Hyper-V NT Kernel Integration VSP (CVE-2025-21333, CVE-2025-21334, CVE-2025-21335). No details yet. No vulnerabilities have public exploits. 5 have private ones: 🔸 Security Feature Bypass – Microsoft Update Catalog (CVE-2024-49147), MapUrlToZone (CVE-2025-21268, CVE-2025-21189)🔸 […]

Microsoft today unleashed updates to plug a whopping 161 security vulnerabilities in Windows and related software, including three "zero-day" weaknesses that are already under active attack. Redmond's inaugural Patch Tuesday of 2025 bundles more fixes than the company has shipped in one go since 2017.

About Elevation of Privilege – Windows Kernel Streaming WOW Thunk Service Driver (CVE-2024-38144) vulnerability. The vulnerability is from the August Microsoft Patch Tuesday. It wasn’t highlighted in reviews; all we knew was that a local attacker could gain SYSTEM privileges. Three and a half months later, on November 27, SSD Secure Disclosure released a write-up […]

About Authentication Bypass – Hunk Companion WordPress plugin (CVE-2024-11972) vulnerability. ThemeHunk company develops commercial themes for WordPress CMS. And the Hunk Companion plugin is designed to complement and enhance the functionality of these themes. The plugin has over 10,000 installations. On December 10, WPScan reported a vulnerability in Hunk Companion plugin versions below 1.9.0, allowing […]