Variant of Paradise Ransomware Targets Office IQY Files

A new variant of the Paradise ransomware attacks rarely-targeted Microsoft Office Excel IQY files, providing a new and relatively inobtrusive way to infiltrate and hijack an organization’s network, researchers have found. Lastline Labs’ James Haughom discovered the variant in December in a spam...

Windows Defender Security Center Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Windows Defender Security Center handles certain objects in memory. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would first have to log on to the system. An attacker could then run a specially crafted command that could exploit the vulnerability t...

Windows Defender Security Center Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Windows Defender Security Center handles certain objects in memory. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would first have to log on to the system. An attacker could then run a specially crafted command that could exploit the vulnerability t...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2018-0986

A remote code execution vulnerability exists when the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine does not properly scan a specially crafted file, leading to memory corruption, aka "Microsoft Malware Protection Engine Remote Code Execution Vulnerability." This affects Windows Defender, Windows Intune...

The vulnerability of Microsoft Windows Defender operating system allows attackers to trigger false alerts and incorrect Windows Defender service responses.

The vulnerability of Microsoft Windows Defender operating system is related to security configuration errors. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow attackers to trigger false alerts and incorrect responses by Windows Defender services...

Windows Defender Antivirus 4.18.1908.7-0 File Extension Spoofing Vulnerability

David Haintz ======================================================================= title: File Extension Spoofing product: Windows Defender Antivirus vulnerable version: 4.18.1908.7-0 fixed version: Virus Definition Update of 2019/09/30 CVE number: - impact: High homepage:...

SYS.1.2.2.A1

Ziel des Bausteins SYS.1.2.2 ist die Absicherung von Microsoft Windows Server 2012 und Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2. Die Basis-Anforderung Copyright C 2019 Greenbone Networks GmbH SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it...

Multi-stage downloader Trojan sLoad abuses BITS almost exclusively for malicious activities

Many of today’s threats evolve to incorporate as many living-off-the-land techniques as possible into the attack chain. The PowerShell-based downloader Trojan known as sLoad, however, puts all its bets on BITS. Background Intelligent Transfer Service BITS is a component of the Windows operating...

Windows Defender Antivirus 4.18.1908.7-0 File Extension Spoofing

SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab Security Advisory ======================================================================= title: File Extension Spoofing product: Windows Defender Antivirus vulnerable version: 4.18.1908.7-0 fixed version: Virus Definition Update of 2019/09/30 CVE number: - impact:...

SYS.2.2.2.A3

Ziel des Bausteins SYS.2.2.2 ist der Schutz von Informationen, die durch und auf Windows 8.1-Clients verarbeiten werden. Die Basis-Anforderung Copyright C 2019 Greenbone Networks GmbH SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it...

Windows Defender Installed

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November 12, 2019—KB4525236 (OS Build 14393.3326)

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Microsoft and partners design new device security requirements to protect against targeted firmware attacks

Recent developments in security research and real-world attacks demonstrate that as more protections are proactively built into the OS and in connected services, attackers are looking for other avenues of exploitation with firmware emerging as a top target. In the last three years alone, NIST’s...

The vulnerability of Microsoft Windows Defender arises from file processing errors, allowing attackers to trigger a service failure.

The vulnerability of Microsoft Windows Defender arises due to file processing errors. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to cause a service failure...

October 2019 Patch Tuesday – 59 vulns, 9 Critical, Azure App Service, Remote Desktop Client, PoC for Windows Error Reporting

This month’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday addresses 59 vulnerabilities with only 9 of them labeled as Critical. Of the 9 Critical vulns, 7 of them are for browsers and scripting engines. The remaining 2 are for Azure App Service and Remote Desktop Client. In addition, PoC code has been published for a...

Thousands of PCs Affected by Nodersok/Divergent Malware

New malware identified by Microsoft and Cisco Talos has affected thousands of PCs in the United States and Europe and turns systems into proxies for performing malicious activity, the companies said. The fileless threat—called Nodersok by Microsoft and Divergent by Cisco Talos—has many of its own...

Microsoft Defender DoS Vulnerability (Sep 2019)

This host is missing an important security update according to Microsoft Security Updates released for Microsoft Malware Protection Engine dated 23-09-2019 SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the...

Microsoft Silent Update Torpedoes Windows Defender

A broken Microsoft Windows Defender signature file that was causing system file checks to fail got a patch this week – but the patch caused an even bigger issue, making Defender user-triggered antivirus scans fail altogether. The issue was in place for about a day before Microsoft re-patched the...

Node.js third-party modules: Trojan:JS/CoinMiner in npm files

Hello, I am a front end developer and use Vue.js and Visual Studio Code and have had an issue recently with scripts not running in my terminal so decided to fault find. All programmes that I can think of are up to date, and today I decided to do a full windows defender scan and found the above...

Improve security and simplify operations with Windows Defender Antivirus + Morphisec

My team at Morphisec a Microsoft Intelligent Security Association MISA partner often talks with security professionals who are well-informed about the latest cyberthreats and have a longterm security strategy. The problem many of them face is how to create a stronger endpoint stack with limited...