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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched vulnerability impacting the Microsoft SharePoint connector on Power Platform that, if successfully exploited, could allow threat actors to harvest a user's credentials and stage follow-on attacks. This could manifest in the form of post-exploitation actions that allow the attacker to send requests to the SharePoint API on behalf

Though Windows, iOS, and macOS users won't need to make any changes, Android users are advised to remove their Defender VPN profiles.

**Product:** PhpSpreadsheet **Version:** 3.8.0 **CWE-ID:** CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') **CVSS vector v.3.1:** 5.4 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N) **CVSS vector v.4.0:** 4.8 (AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N) **Description:** an attacker can use special characters, so that the library processes the javascript protocol with special characters and generates an HTML link **Impact:** executing arbitrary JavaScript code in the browser **Vulnerable component:** class `PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\Writer\Html`, method `generateRow` **Exploitation conditions:** a user viewing a specially generated xml file **Mitigation:** additional sanitization of special characters in a string **Researcher: Igor Sak-Sakovskiy (Positive Technologies)** # Research The researcher discovered zero-day vulnerability Bypass XSS sanitizer using the javascript protocol and special characters in Phpspreadsheet. The following code...

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Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malvertising campaign that's targeting Microsoft advertisers with bogus Google ads that aim to take them to phishing pages that are capable of harvesting their credentials. "These malicious ads, appearing on Google Search, are designed to steal the login information of users trying to access Microsoft's advertising platform," Jérôme Segura, senior

AI-generated content is empowering even novice hackers to elevate phishing attacks, enabling highly personalized and convincing scams targeting…

The FBI and authorities in The Netherlands this week seized a number of servers and domains for a hugely popular spam and malware dissemination service operating out of Pakistan. The proprietors of the service, who use the collective nickname "The Manipulaters," have been the subject of three stories published here since 2015. The FBI said the main clientele are organized crime groups that try to trick victim companies into making payments to a third party.

The deal, expected to close this quarter, will give Tenable One Exposure Management much-needed integration with over 100 third-party security tools and platforms.

Discover how cybercriminals use 'Infrastructure Laundering' to exploit AWS and Azure for scams, phishing, and money laundering. Learn about FUNNULL CDN's tactics and their global impact on businesses and cybersecurity.

No ransomware groups have yet to claim responsibility for either attack, and both institutions have yet to reveal what may have been stolen.