#windows

GitKraken GitLens versions prior to 14.0.0 allow an untrusted workspace to execute git commands. A repo may include its own .git folder including a malicious config file to execute arbitrary code. Tested against VSCode 1.87.2 with GitLens 13.6.0 on Ubuntu 22.04 and Windows 10.

Palo Alto PAN-OS versions prior to 11.1.2-h3 command injection and arbitrary file creation exploit.

The infamous Russian threat actor has created a custom tool called GooseEgg to exploit CVE-2022-38028 in cyber-espionage attacks against targets in Ukraine, Western Europe, and North America.

Talos also discovered a new PowerShell command-line argument embedded in the LNK file to bypass anti-virus products and download the final payload into the victims’ host.

State-sponsored groups are targeting critical vulnerabilities in virtual private network (VPN) gateways, firewall appliances, and other edge devices to make life difficult for incident responders, who rarely have visibility into the devices.

By Deeba Ahmed Millions of Discord messages sold online! Protect yourself from leaked usernames, photos & financial details. Learn how to secure your Discord account. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: This Website is Selling Billions of Private Messages of Discord Users

The Russia-linked nation-state threat actor tracked as APT28 weaponized a security flaw in the Microsoft Windows Print Spooler component to deliver a previously unknown custom malware called GooseEgg. The post-compromise tool, which is said to have been used since at least June 2020 and possibly as early as April 2019, leveraged a now-patched flaw that allowed for

By Deeba Ahmed IT professionals are under attack! This article exposes a malicious malvertising campaign targeting IT teams with a novel backdoor named MadMxShell. Learn how attackers use typosquatting and DNS techniques to compromise systems. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Malvertising: Fake Popular Software Ads Deliver New MadMxShell Backdoor

New research has found that the DOS-to-NT path conversion process could be exploited by threat actors to achieve rootkit-like capabilities to conceal and impersonate files, directories, and processes. "When a user executes a function that has a path argument in Windows, the DOS path at which the file or folder exists is converted to an NT path," SafeBreach security researcher Or Yair said&

Malformed DOS paths in file-naming nomenclature in Windows could be used to conceal malicious content, files, and processes.