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Talos’ support for Ukraine has lead us to launch a task force to monitor critical infrastructure - identifying threats, remediating attacks, and gathering information. Discover the top adversaries, threats, and behavior trends Talos has observed this past year in Ukraine.

Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities Categories: News Tags: patch Tuesday Tags: Microsoft Tags: Android Tags: Apple Tags: Mozilla Tags: Google Tags: Sap Tags: Citrix Tags: Fortinet Tags: Cisco Tags: CVE-2022-44698 Tags: MotW Tags: CVE-2022-44710 Tags: race condition Tags: CVE-2022-44670 Tags: CVE-2022-44676 Tags: CVE-2022-41076 Tags: remote powershell The last patch Tuesday of 2022 is here—find out what Microsoft and many others have fixed (Read more...) The post Update now! Two zero-days fixed in 2022's last patch Tuesday appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

We discuss the premiere Talos Year in Review report - a look back at the major threats, trends, and topics from 2022 and what we should take forward into 2023. Dave Liebenberg joins us to discuss *why* his team undertook this effort, and some of the finer points of the report findings.

We expect this data-driven story will shed some insight into Cisco’s and the security community’s most notable successes and remaining challenges. As these Year in Review reports continue in the future, we aim to help explain how the threat landscape changes from one year to the next.

Tech giant Microsoft released its last set of monthly security updates for 2022 with fixes for 49 vulnerabilities across its software products. Of the 49 bugs, six are rated Critical, 40 are rated Important, and three are rated Moderate in severity. The updates are in addition to 24 vulnerabilities that have been addressed in the Chromium-based Edge browser since the start of the month.

Here's what you need to patch now, including six critical updates for Microsoft's final Patch Tuesday of the year.

HTML smuggling is a technique attackers use to hide an encoded malicious script within an HTML email attachment or webpage. Once a victim receives the email and opens the attachment, their browser decodes and runs the script, which then assembles a malicious payload directly on the victim’s device

Microsoft released its monthly security update on Tuesday, disclosing 48 vulnerabilities. Of these vulnerabilities, 6 are classified as “Critical”, 41 are classified as “Important”, with the remaining vulnerability classified as “Moderate.”

Marcin ‘Icewall’ Noga of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Cisco Talos recently discovered a denial-of-service vulnerability in VMWare vCenter Server. VMware vCenter Server is a platform that enables centralized control and monitoring over all virtual machines and EXSi hypervisors included in vSphere. TALOS-2022-1588 (CVE-2022-31698) concerns a pre-authentication denial-of-service

VMware ESXi contains a heap-overflow vulnerability. A malicious local actor with restricted privileges within a sandbox process may exploit this issue to achieve a partial information disclosure.