Amazon, Azure Clouds Host RAT-ty Trio in Infostealing Campaign

Cyberattackers are abusing Amazon Web Services AWS and Azure Cloud services to deliver a trio of remote access trojans RATs, researchers warned – all aimed at hoovering up sensitive information from target users. According to an analysis from Cisco Talos, threat actors have been pushing out...

USN-5162-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Ilja Van Sprundel discovered that the SCTP implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly perform size validations on incoming packets in some situations. An attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive information kernel memory. CVE-2021-3655 It was discovered that the AMD...

Microsoft Azure Real Time Operating System 信息泄露漏洞

Microsoft Azure is an open, enterprise-class cloud computing platform from Microsoft Corporation USA. The vulnerability stems from a configuration and other errors in the network system or product during operation. An unauthorized attacker could exploit the vulnerability to obtain sensitive...

Microsoft Fended Off a Record 2.4 Tbps DDoS Attack Targeting Azure Customers

Microsoft on Monday revealed that its Azure cloud platform mitigated a 2.4 Tbps distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack in the last week of August targeting an unnamed customer in Europe, surpassing a 2.3 Tbps attack stopped by Amazon Web Services in February 2020. "This is 140 percent higher...

AutomatedLab - A Provisioning Solution And Framework That Lets You Deploy Complex Labs On HyperV And Azure With Simple PowerShell Scripts

AutomatedLab AL enables you to setup test and lab environments on Hyper-v or Azure with multiple products or just a single VM in a very short time. There are only two requirements you need to make sure: You need the DVD ISO images and a Hyper-V host or an Azure subscription. Requirements Apart fr...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: Subdomain takeover [​████████]

The subdomain ███████ was pointing to an Azure Cloud App domain araz-sp.centralus.cloudapp.azure.com, but that endpoint was not registered. Impact It's extremely vulnerable to attacks as a malicious user could create any web page with any content and host it on the vulnerable domain. This would...

The vulnerability in the implementation of the execAz() function of the authentication library for Azure cloud platform’s services allows a perpetrator to escalate their privileges.

The vulnerability of the execAz function implementation in the Azure cloud platform’s authentication library, ms-rest-nodeauth, is related to the lack of measures taken to neutralize special elements used in the operating system command. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow attackers to enhanc...

Create Efficient Well-Architected Cloud Infrastructure

This article explores the Performance Efficiency pillar of the Amazon Web Services and Azure Well-Architected Framework. We will examine how to create performance efficiency in the compute, storage, database, and network elements of cloud infrastructures...

USN-4678-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the AMD Running Average Power Limit RAPL driver in the Linux kernel did not properly restrict access to power data. A local attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive information. CVE-2020-12912 Jann Horn discovered that the iouring subsystem in the Linux kernel d...

USN-4679-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the console keyboard driver in the Linux kernel contained a race condition. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information kernel memory. CVE-2020-25656 Minh Yuan discovered that the tty driver in the Linux kernel contained race conditions when handling...

Key layers for developing a Smarter SOC with CyberProof-managed Microsoft Azure security services

This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association MISA guest blog series. Learn more about MISA here. Security teams are struggling to reduce the time to detect and respond to threats due to the complexity and volume of alerts being generated from multiple security...

What’s New in InsightAppSec and tCell: Q3 2020 in Review

Here at Rapid7, we’ve been quite busy continuously improving, expanding functionality, and testing new features for feedback with our customers across our application security portfolio. This includes InsightAppSec, our leading DAST solution, tCell by Rapid7, our next-gen cloud WAF and RASP...

Microsoft Azure Flaws Open Admin Servers to Takeover

Researchers have disclosed two flaws in Microsoft’s Azure web hosting application service, App Services, which if exploited could enable an attacker to take over administrative servers. Azure App Services is an HTTP-based service for hosting web applications, and is available in both Microsoft...

USN-4426-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Jason A. Donenfeld discovered that the ACPI implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly restrict loading SSDT code from an EFI variable. A privileged attacker could use this to bypass Secure Boot lockdown restrictions and execute arbitrary code in the kernel. CVE-2019-20908 Fan Yang...

USN-4404-2: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

USN-4404-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the NVIDIA graphics drivers. This update provides the corresponding updates for the NVIDIA Linux DKMS kernel modules. Original advisory details: Thomas E. Carroll discovered that the NVIDIA Cuda grpahics driver did not properly perform access control when...

USN-4363-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Serial CAN interface driver in the Linux kernel did not properly initialize data. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information kernel memory. CVE-2020-11494 It was discovered that the linux kernel did not properly validate certain mount options to the...

USN-4367-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the btrfs implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly detect that a block was marked dirty in some situations. An attacker could use this to specially craft a file system image that, when unmounted, could cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2019-19377 It was...

USN-4287-2 linux-azure vulnerabilities

USN-4287-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux kernel for Microsoft Azure Cloud systems for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly clear data structures on context switches...

USN-4287-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly clear data structures on context switches for certain Intel graphics processors. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information. CVE-2019-14615 It was discovered that the Atheros 802.11ac wireless USB device driver in the...

USN-4135-2: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Peter Pi discovered a buffer overflow in the virtio network backend vhostnet implementation in the Linux kernel. An attacker in a guest may be able to use this to cause a denial of service host OS crash or possibly execute arbitrary code in the host OS. CVE-2019-14835 It was discovered that the...