Hackers Use TikTok Videos to Distribute Vidar and StealC Malware via ClickFix Technique

The malware known as Latrodectus has become the latest to embrace the widely-used social engineering technique called ClickFix as a distribution vector. "The ClickFix technique is particularly risky because it allows the malware to execute in memory rather than being written to disk," Expel said ...

Scarcity signals: Are rare activities red flags?

By Darin Smith and John Arneson Cisco Talos reviewed six months of network connection telemetry logs spanning June 1, 2024 - Dec. 31, 2024, containing 3,220,829 log events and 742 unique base domains, to explore if domains that PowerShell rarely contacts are more likely to be malicious. Key...

CVE-2024-6055

Improper removal of sensitive information in data source export feature in Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager 2024.1.32.0 and earlier on Windows allows an attacker that obtains the exported settings to recover powershell credentials configured on the data source via stealing the configuration fil...

CVE-2024-50616

Ironman PowerShell Universal 5.x before 5.0.12 allows an authenticated attacker to elevate their privileges and view job information...

CVE-2023-39520

Cryptomator encrypts data being stored on cloud infrastructure. The MSI installer provided on the homepage for Cryptomator version 1.9.2 allows local privilege escalation for low privileged users, via the repair function. The problem occurs as the repair function of the MSI is spawning an SYSTEM...

CVE-2022-32973

An authenticated attacker could create an audit file that bypasses PowerShell cmdlet checks and executes commands with administrator privileges...

CVE-2022-45184

The Web Server in Ironman Software PowerShell Universal v3.x and v2.x allows for directory traversal outside of the configuration directory, which allows a remote attacker with administrator privilege to create, delete, update, and display files outside of the configuration directory via a crafte...

CVE-2022-45183

Escalation of privileges in the Web Server in Ironman Software PowerShell Universal 2.x and 3.x allows an attacker with a valid app token to retrieve other app tokens by ID via an HTTP web request. Patched Versions are 3.5.3, 3.4.7, and 2.12.6...

CVE-2021-42098

An incomplete permission check on entries in Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager before 2021.2.16 allows attackers to bypass permissions via batch custom PowerShell...

CVE-2020-9326

BeyondTrust Privilege Management for Windows and Mac aka PMWM; formerly Avecto Defendpoint 5.1 through 5.5 before 5.5 SR1 mishandles command-line arguments with PowerShell .ps1 file extensions present, leading to a DefendpointService.exe crash...

CVE-2020-29552

An issue was discovered in URVE Build 24.03.2020. By using the internal/pc/vpro.php?mac=0=0=0=0=0%3bpowershell+-c+" substring, it is possible to execute a Powershell command and redirect its output to a file under the web root...

CVE-2019-1373

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft Exchange through the deserialization of metadata via PowerShell, aka 'Microsoft Exchange Remote Code Execution Vulnerability'...

CVE-2019-1000

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Microsoft Azure Active Directory Connect build 1.3.20.0, which allows an attacker to execute two PowerShell cmdlets in context of a privileged account, and perform privileged actions.To exploit this, an attacker would need to authenticate to the...

Exploit for Deserialization of Untrusted Data in Microsoft

LetsDefend-CVE-2022-41082-Exploitation-Attempt 🛡️ Incident...

Fileless Remcos RAT Delivered via LNK Files and MSHTA in PowerShell-Based Attacks

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new malware campaign that makes use of a PowerShell-based shellcode loader to deploy a remote access trojan called Remcos RAT. "Threat actors delivered malicious LNK files embedded within ZIP archives, often disguised as Office documents," Qualys...

Fileless Execution: PowerShell Based Shellcode Loader Executes Remcos RAT

Cybercriminals are progressively turning PowerShell to launch stealthy attacks that evade traditional antivirus and endpoint defenses. By running code directly in memory, these threats leave minimal evidence on disk, making them particularly challenging to detect. A recent example is Remcos RAT, ...

Fileless Remcos RAT Attack Evades Antivirus Using PowerShell Scripts

A new wave of attacks uses PowerShell and LNK files to secretly install Remcos RAT, enabling full remote…...

Horabot Malware Targets 6 Latin American Nations Using Invoice-Themed Phishing Emails

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new phishing campaign that's being used to distribute malware called Horabot targeting Windows users in Latin American countries like Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Peru, Chile, and Argentina. The campaign is "using crafted emails that impersonate invoice...

Authenticated Command Injection

github.com/nrkno/terraform-provider-windns is vulnerable to Authenticated command injection. The vulnerability is due to lack of input sanitization in the windnsrecord resource. Specifically, user-supplied inputs were not properly sanitized before being passed to the underlying PowerShell command...

Microsoft Security Essentials Detection (Windows SMB Login)

Detects and gathers information of Microsoft Security Essentials. Supports following operating systems: - Windows XP SP3 - Vista SP1 - Windows 7 The information is retrieved via Powershell. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced...