Microsoft Patch Tuesday July 2023: Vulristics improvements, Office RCE, SFB SmartScreen and Outlook, EoP MSHTML and ERS, other RCEs

Microsoft Patch Tuesday July 2023: Vulristics improvements, Office RCE, SFB SmartScreen and Outlook, EoP MSHTML and ERS, other RCEs. Hello everyone! This episode will be about Microsoft Patch Tuesday for July 2023, including vulnerabilities that were added between June and July Patch Tuesdays...

Akamai’s Perspective on July’s Patch Tuesday 2023

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Microsoft’s July 2023 Patch Tuesday Addresses 5 Zero-day Vulnerabilities

Threat Level Vulnerability Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Microsofts July 2023 Patch Tuesday includes security updates for 130 flaws, including five actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities, nine are rated as Critical’, and 37 remote code execution...

Microsoft Releases Patches for 132 Vulnerabilities, Including 6 Under Active Attack

Microsoft on Tuesday released updates to address a total of 132 new security flaws spanning its software, including six zero-day flaws that it said have been actively exploited in the wild. Of the 132 vulnerabilities, nine are rated Critical, 122 are rated Important in severity, and one has been...

Patch Tuesday - July 2023

Microsoft is addressing 130 vulnerabilities this July Patch Tuesday, including five zero-day vulnerabilities, and eight further critical remote code execution RCE vulnerabilities. Overall, it’s safe to say that this is a busier Patch Tuesday than the past couple of months. Note that the total cou...

Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, July 2023 Security Update Review

Microsoft has released Julys edition of Patch Tuesday! This installment of security updates addressed 132 security vulnerabilities in various products, features, and roles. Microsoft Patch Tuesday for July 2023 This months Patch Tuesday edition has fixed six zero-day vulnerabilities known to be...

Microsoft discloses more than 130 vulnerabilities as part of July’s Patch Tuesday, four exploited in the wild

Microsoft released its monthly security update Tuesday, disclosing the most vulnerabilities as part of Patch Tuesday in more than a year. The company released details of more than 130 vulnerabilities, the most in a month since April 2022, 10 of which are considered to be critical. The remaining...

URLs have always been a great hiding place for threat actors

Welcome to this weeks edition of the Threat Source newsletter. Talos recent blog post on the dangers posed by the newly released ".zip" top-level domain TLD recently outlined how threat actors could create real URLs that look like file names and trick users into clicking on their links. .Zip and...

Microsoft’s June 2023 Patch Tuesday Addresses 78 Vulnerabilities

Threat Level Vulnerability Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Microsofts June 2023 Patch Tuesday addressed 78 flaws, including 38 remote code execution vulnerabilities. Notable fixes included SharePoint and Exchange Server vulnerabilities, while no zero-day...

Microsoft Releases Updates to Patch Critical Flaws in Windows and Other Software

Microsoft has rolled out fixes for its Windows operating system and other software components to remediate major security shortcomings as part of Patch Tuesday updates for June 2023. Of the 73 flaws, six are rated Critical, 63 are rated Important, two are rated Moderate, and one is rated Low in...

Microsoft Releases Updates to Patch Critical Flaws in Windows and Other Software

Microsoft has rolled out fixes for its Windows operating system and other software components to remediate major security shortcomings as part of Patch Tuesday updates for June 2023. Of the 73 flaws, six are rated Critical, 63 are rated Important, two are rated Moderated, and one is rated Low in...

Microsoft fixes six critical vulnerabilities in June Patch Tuesday

Its that time of the month again: We're looking at June's Patch Tuesday roundup. Microsoft has released its monthly update, and compared to previous months, its actually not so bad. No actively exploited zero-days and only six critical vulnerabilities. So, well have the luxury of going over those...

Patch Tuesday - June 2023

It’s June, and it’s Patch Tuesday. The volume of fixes this month is typical compared with recent history: 94 in total including Edge-on-Chromium. For the first time in a while, Microsoft isn’t offering patches for any zero-day vulnerabilities, but we do get fixes for four critical Remote Code...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, June 2023 Edition

Microsoft Corp. today released software updates to fix dozens of security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and other software. This months relatively light patch load has another added bonus for system administrators everywhere: It appears to be the first Patch Tuesday since March...

Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, June 2023 Security Update Review

Microsoft has released Junes edition of Patch Tuesday! This installment of security updates addressed 94 security vulnerabilities in various products, features, and roles. Microsoft Patch Tuesday for June 2023 No zero-day vulnerabilities known to be exploited in the wild have been fixed in this...

Microsoft discloses 5 critical vulnerabilities in June's Patch Tuesday, no zero-days

Microsoft released its monthly security update Tuesday, disclosing 69 vulnerabilities across its suite of products and software. Five of these vulnerabilities are considered to be critical, 45 of them are listed as being high severity, 17 of them are medium severity and two are of low severity. F...

Akamai’s Perspective on June’s Patch Tuesday 2023

Every Patch Tuesday stirs up the community. See Akamai's insights and recommendations on what to focus on, and patch, patch, patch!...

Researchers Uncover Publisher Spoofing Bug in Microsoft Visual Studio Installer

Security researchers have warned about an "easily exploitable" flaw in the Microsoft Visual Studio installer that could be abused by a malicious actor to impersonate a legitimate publisher and distribute malicious extensions. "A threat actor could impersonate a popular publisher and issue a...

Experts Unveil Exploit for Recent Windows Vulnerability Under Active Exploitation

Details have emerged about a now-patched actively exploited security flaw in Microsoft Windows that could be abused by a threat actor to gain elevated privileges on affected systems. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-29336, is rated 7.8 for severity and concerns an elevation of privilege bug...

Actors, Threats and Vulnerabilities 08 to 14 May 2023

For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary HiveForce Labs recently made several significant discoveries related to cybersecurity threats. Over the past week, identified a total of nine attacks that were executed. Additionally, HiveForce Labs identified four different...