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By Jon Munshaw.  Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter.  Public schools in the United States already rely on our teachers for so much — they have to be educators, occasional parental figures, nurses, safety officers, law enforcement and much more. Slowly, they’re having to add “IT admin” to their list of roles.  Educational institutions have increasingly become a target for ransomware attacks, an issue already highlighted this year by a major cyber attack on the combined Los Angeles school district in California that schools are still recovering from.  Teachers there reported that during the week of the attack, they couldn’t enter attendance, lost lesson plans and presentations, and had to scrap homework plans. Technology has become ever-present in classrooms, so any minimal disruption in a school’s network or software can throw pretty much everything off.  The last thing teachers need to worry about now is defending against a well-funded threat act...

JFinal CMS 5.1.0 is vulnerable to SQL Injection.

Prototype pollution vulnerability in stealjs steal 2.2.4 via the optionName variable in main.js.

A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) flaw was found in stealjs steal 2.2.4 via the source and sourceWithComments variable in main.js.

JFinal CMS 5.1.0 is affected by: SQL Injection. These interfaces do not use the same component, nor do they have filters, but each uses its own SQL concatenation method, resulting in SQL injection

TOTOLink A700RU V7.4cu.2313_B20191024 was discovered to contain a command injection vulnerability via the lang parameter in the function cstesystem. This vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted payload.

We uncovered a campaign on the Microsoft Edge home page where malicious ads are luring victims into tech support scams. (Read more...) The post Malvertising on Microsoft Edge's News Feed pushes tech support scams appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Categories: News Tags: CVE-2022-37969 Tags: CVE-2022-23960 Tags: CVE-2022-35805 Tags: CVE-2022-34700 Tags: CVE-2022-34718 Tags: CVE-2022-34721 Tags: CVE-2022-34722 Tags: Microsoft Tags: Adobe Tags: Android Tags: Apple Tags: Cisco Tags: Google Tags: Samsung Tags: SAP Tags: VMWare The September 2022 Patch Tuesday updates includes two zero-day vulnerabilities, one of which is known to be used in attacks (Read more...) The post Update now! Microsoft patches two zero-days appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 has detailed the inner workings of a malware called OriginLogger, which has been touted as a successor to the widely used information stealer and remote access trojan (RAT) known as Agent Tesla. A .NET based keylogger and remote access, Agent Tesla has had a long-standing presence in the threat landscape, allowing malicious actors to gain remote access to targeted

Tech giant Microsoft on Tuesday shipped fixes to quash 64 new security flaws across its software lineup, including one zero-day flaw that has been actively exploited in real-world attacks. Of the 64 bugs, five are rated Critical, 57 are rated Important, one is rated Moderate, and one is rated Low in severity. The patches are in addition to 16 vulnerabilities that Microsoft addressed in its