Introducing Qualys Threat Research Thursdays

Welcome to the first edition of the Qualys Research Team’s “Threat Research Thursday” where we collect and curate notable new tools, techniques, procedures, threat intelligence, cybersecurity news, malware attacks, and more. We will endeavor to issue these update reports regularly, as often as...

Microsoft tackles DogWalk zero-day vulnerability and multiple privilege escalation vulnerabilities

Threat Level Vulnerability Report For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Microsoft Patch Tuesday addresses CVE-2022-34713, also known as DogWalk, as well as numerous issues affecting Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Windows Support Diagnostic Tool MSDT, Windows Print...

Akamai?s Perspective on August Patch Tuesday

Want the rundown of what to focus on with Patch Tuesday in one place? Check out this blog, and patch, patch, patch!...

Akamai’s Perspective on August Patch Tuesday

Want the rundown of what to focus on with Patch Tuesday in one place? Check out this blog, and patch, patch, patch!...

CISA Issues Warning on Active Exploitation of UnRAR Software for Linux Systems

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Tuesday added a recently disclosed security flaw in the UnRAR utility to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. Tracked as CVE-2022-30333 CVSS score: 7.5, the issue concerns a path...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday for August 2022 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities

By Jon Munshaw and Vanja Svajcer. Microsoft released its monthly security update Tuesday, disclosing more than 120 vulnerabilities across its line of products and software, the most in a single Patch Tuesday in four months. This batch of updates also includes a fix for a new vulnerability in the...

August 2022 Patch Tuesday | Microsoft Releases 121 Vulnerabilities with 17 Critical, plus 20 Microsoft Edge (Chromium-Based); Adobe Releases 5 Advisories, 25 Vulnerabilities with 15 Critical.

Microsoft Patch Tuesday Summary Microsoft has fixed 121 vulnerabilities aka flaws in the August 2022 update, including 17 vulnerabilities classified as Critical as they allow Elevation of Privilege EoP and Remote Code Execution RCE. This months Patch Tuesday fixes two 2 zero-day vulnerabilities,...

Patch Tuesday - August 2022

It's the week of Hacker Summer Camp in Las Vegas, and Microsoft has published fixes for 141 separate vulnerabilities in their swath of August updates. This is a new monthly record by raw CVE count, but from a patching perspective, the numbers are slightly less dire. 20 CVEs affect their...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday July 2022: propaganda report, CSRSS EoP, RPC RCE, Edge, Azure Site Recovery

Hello everyone! Microsoft has been acting weird lately. I mean the recent publication of a propaganda report about evil Russians and how Microsoft is involved in the conflict between countries. It wouldnt be unusual for a US government agency, NSA or CIA to publish such a report. But when a globa...

CISA Urges Patch of Exploited Windows 11 Bug by Aug. 2

A Windows 11 vulnerability, part of Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday roundup of fixes, is being exploited in the wild, prompting the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA to advise patching of the elevation of privileges flaw by August 2. The recommendation is directed at federal...

Update now—July Patch Tuesday patches include fix for exploited zero-day

It’s time to triage a lot of patching again. Microsoft’s July Patch Tuesday includes an actively exploited local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Windows Client/Server Runtime Subsystem CSRSS. This vulnerability immediately made it to the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency CI...

Microsoft Releases Fix for Zero-Day Flaw in July 2022 Security Patch Rollout

Microsoft released its monthly round of Patch Tuesday updates to address 84 new security flaws spanning multiple product categories, counting a zero-day vulnerability that's under active attack in the wild. Of the 84 shortcomings, four are rated Critical, and 80 are rated Important in severity...

July 2022 Patch Tuesday | Microsoft Releases 84 Vulnerabilities with 4 Critical, plus 2 Microsoft Edge (Chromium-Based); Adobe Releases 4 Advisories, 27 Vulnerabilities with 18 Critical.

Microsoft Patch Tuesday Summary Microsoft has fixed 84 vulnerabilities aka flaws in the July 2022 update, including four 4 vulnerabilities classified as Critical as they allow Remote Code Execution RCE. This months Patch Tuesday cumulative Windows update includes the fix for one 1 actively...

Patch Tuesday - July 2022

Microsoft’s updates for July's Patch Tuesday fix 86 CVEs, including two vulnerabilities in their Chromium-based Edge browser that were patched earlier in the month. One 0-day vulnerability has been patched: CVE-2022-22047 affects all currently supported versions of Microsoft’s pervasive operating...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday for July 2022 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities

By Jon Munshaw and Tiago Pereira. Microsoft released its monthly security update Tuesday, disclosing more than 80 vulnerabilities in the company’s various software, hardware and firmware offerings, including one that’s actively being exploited in the wild. July's security update... This is only t...

Microsoft Windows Autopatch is Now Generally Available for Enterprise Systems

Microsoft on Monday announced the general availability of a feature called Autopatch that automatically keeps Windows and Office software up-to-date on enrolled endpoints. The launch, which comes a day before Microsoft is expected to release its monthly round of security patches, is available for...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday June 2022: Follina RCE, NFSV4.1 RCE, LDAP RCEs and bad patches

Hello everyone! This will be an episode about the Microsoft vulnerabilities that were released on June Patch Tuesday and also between May and June Patch Tuesdays. Alternative video link for Russia: On June Patch Tuesday, June 14, 56 vulnerabilities were released. Between May and June Patch...

Microsoft addresses multiple RCE vulnerabilities in their June 2022 Patch Tuesday

Threat Level Vulnerability Report For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Microsoft June 2022 Patch Tuesday addressed 55 security flaws. One of them is the Follina which has been addressed in another detailed advisory. Three of them have been rated criticalas per Microsoft and...

Update now!  Microsoft patches Follina, and many other security updates

The June 2022 Patch Tuesday may go down in history as the day that Follina got patched, but there was a host of other important updates. And not just from Microsoft. Many other software vendors follow the pattern of monthly updates set by the people in Redmond. Microsoft Microsoft released update...

Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Issues Fix for Actively Exploited 'Follina' Vulnerability

Microsoft finally released fixes to address an actively exploited Windows zero-day vulnerability known as Follina as part of its Patch Tuesday updates. Also addressed by the tech giant are 55 other flaws, three of which are rated Critical, 51 are rated Important, and one is rated Moderate in...