From BinDiff to 0day: Internet Explorer UAF vulnerability analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

The last 6 months, I to Microsoft the report the IE browser in aUAF（after the release of the reused vulnerability vulnerability is the official positioning of the severity levels, numberedCVE-2019-1208, Microsoft in 9 monthsPatch Tuesdayfixes this vulnerability. I byBinDiff a binary code analysis...

Microsoft Addresses Two Zero-Days Under Active Attack

Two elevation-of-privilege vulnerabilities that have been exploited in the wild as zero-days are at the heart of September’s Patch Tuesday update from Microsoft. The two EoP vulnerabilities under active attack consist of CVE-2019-1214, which exists in the Windows Common Log File System CLFS Drive...

Latest Microsoft Updates Patch 4 Critical Flaws In Windows RDP Client

Get your update caps on. Microsoft today released its monthly Patch Tuesday update for September 2019, patching a total of 79 security vulnerabilities in its software, of which 17 are rated critical, 61 as important, and one moderate in severity. Two of the security vulnerabilities patched by the...

September Patch Tuesday – 79 Vulns, 17 Critical, Remote Desktop Client, SharePoint, Exploited PrivEsc

This month’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday addresses 79 vulnerabilities with 17 of them labeled as Critical. Of the 17 Critical vulns, 8 are for scripting engines and browsers, 4 are for the Remote Desktop Client, and 3 are for SharePoint. In addition, Microsoft has again patched a critical vulnerabili...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday — Sept. 2019: Vulnerability disclosures and Snort coverage

By Jon Munshaw. Microsoft released its monthly security update today, disclosing a variety of vulnerabilities in several of its products. The latest Patch Tuesday covers 85 vulnerabilities, 19 of which are rated “critical," 65 that are considered "important" and one "moderate." There is also a...

This Week in Security News: Phishing Campaigns and a Biometric Data Breach

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about ever-increasing amounts of phishing campaigns and how Trend Micro caught 2.4 million attacks of this type — a 59% increase from...

Threat Source newsletter (Aug. 15)

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. Sorry we missed you last week, we were all away at Hacker Summer Camp. If you missed us at Black Hat, we have a roundup up on the blog o...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday — Aug. 2019: Vulnerability disclosures and Snort coverage

Microsoft released its monthly security update today, disclosing a variety of vulnerabilities in several of its products. The latest Patch Tuesday covers 97 vulnerabilities, 31 of which are rated “critical," 65 that are considered "important" and one "moderate." This month’s security update cover...

Patch Tuesday, August 2019 Edition

Most Microsoft Windows abusers probably welcome the monthly ritual of applying security updates about as much as they look forward to going to the dentist: It always seems like you were there just yesterday, and you never quite know how it's all going to turn out. Fortunately, this month's patch...

Shades of BlueKeep: Wormable Remote Desktop Bugs Top August Patch Tuesday List

Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday release contains updates for 93 CVEs, including 29 that are rated critical in severity. The highest priority of these include four critical remote code-execution RCE vulnerabilities in Remote Desktop Services RDS and a critical RCE flaw in Microsoft Word. Also, tw...

August 2019 Patch Tuesday – 93 Vulns, 29 Critical, 7 Remote Desktop Vulns, Hyper-V, DHCP, Adobe vulns

Update Aug 13, 2019: Detect and Patch Windows Remote Desktop Vulnerabilities This month’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday addresses 93 vulnerabilities with 29 of them labeled as Critical. Of the 29 Critical vulns, 10 are for scripting engines and browsers, 6 for Windows Graphics/Font Library, and 4 are f...

4 New BlueKeep-like 'Wormable' Windows Remote Desktop Flaws Discovered

If you are using any supported version of the Windows operating system, stop everything and install the latest security updates from Microsoft immediately. Windows operating system contains four new critical wormable, remote code execution vulnerabilities in Remote Desktop Services, similar to th...

Reverse RDP Attack Also Enables Guest-to-Host Escape in Microsoft Hyper-V

Remember the Reverse RDP Attack? Earlier this year, researchers disclosed clipboard hijacking and path-traversal issues in Microsoft's Windows built-in RDP client that could allow a malicious RDP server to compromise a client computer, reversely. You can find details and a video demonstration for...

This Week in Security News: Banking Malware and Phishing Campaigns

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about the banking malware Anubis that has been retooled for use in fresh attack waves. Also, read about a new phishing campaign that...

July 2019 Patch Tuesday – 77 Vulns, 15 Critical, DHCP RCE, Exploited PrivEsc, SQL, Adobe Vulns

This month’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday addresses 77 vulnerabilities with 15 of them labeled as Critical. Of the 15 Critical vulns, 11 are for scripting engines and browsers, with the remaining four covering DHCP Server, GDI+, .NET Framework, and Azure DevOps Server / Team Foundation Server. In...

Microsoft Patches Four Publicly-Known Vulnerabilities

Microsoft patched four Windows operating system bugs – all of which are already publicly known or have proof of concept exploits – as part of its June Patch Tuesday security bulletin. Each of the vulnerabilities are rated important and there are no reports of public exploitation for the flaws. Th...

June 2019 Patch Tuesday – 88 Vulns, 21 Critical, Hyper-V Escape, Adobe Vulns

This month's Microsoft Patch Tuesday addresses 88 vulnerabilities with 21 of them labeled as Critical. Of the 21 Critical vulns, 17 are for scripting engines and browsers, and 3 are potential hypervisor escapes in Hyper-V. The remaining vulnerability is an RCE in the Microsoft Speech API. Microso...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday — June 2019: Vulnerability disclosures and Snort coverage

Microsoft released its monthly security update today, disclosing a variety of vulnerabilities in several of its products. The latest Patch Tuesday covers 88 vulnerabilities, 18 of which are rated “critical," 69 that are considered "important" and one "moderate." This release also includes a...

Hacker Discloses Second Zero-Day to Bypass Patch for Windows EoP Flaw

An anonymous security researcher going by the name of SandboxEscaper today publicly shared a second zero-day exploit that can be used to bypass a recently patched elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows operating system. SandboxEscaper is known for publicly dropping zero-day...

Threat Source newsletter (May 30)

Newsletter compiled by Jonathan Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. Did you update all of your Microsoft products after Patch Tuesday earlier this month? If not, what are you waiting for? Listen to t...