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...

Hybrid-Work Drives Hardware Security Strategies

Remote workforce, hybrid-cloud and Zero-Trust trends are pushing security teams to focus on hardware-assisted security strategies to better secure an evolving attack surface changed significantly by COVID. To address new challenges, hardware-assisted security is viewed as an effective and...

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...

A week in security (July 4 – July 10)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: My Body, My Data Act would lock down reproductive and sexual health data "Free UK visa" offers on WhatsApp are fakes HackerOne insider fired for trying to claim other people’s bounties Update now! Chrome patches ANOTHER zero-day vulnerability Cloud-based malware is...

Zero-day vulnerability in Chrome browser being exploited-in-the-wild

Threat Level Vulnerability Report For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Summary The heap buffer overflow vulnerability in chrome browser let attackers to run arbitrary code or cause denial-of-service condition...

Google Patches Actively Exploited Chrome Bug

While people were celebrating the Fourth of July holiday in the United States, Google quietly rolled out a stable channel update for Chrome to patch an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability, the fourth such flaw the vendor has had to patch in its browser product so far this year. Chrome 103...

Update Google Chrome Browser to Patch New Zero-Day Exploit Detected in the Wild

Google on Monday shipped security updates to address a high-severity zero-day vulnerability in its Chrome web browser that it said is being exploited in the wild. The shortcoming, tracked as CVE-2022-2294, relates to a heap overflow flaw in the WebRTC component that provides real-time audio and...

CODESYS Gateway Server (Update A)

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.5 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity Vendor: CODESYS GmbH Equipment: CODESYS Gateway Server Vulnerability: Heap Based Buffer Overflow 2. UPDATE INFORMATION This updated advisory is a follow-up to the original advisory titled ICSA-15-258-02 3S...

Akamai?s Observations of Confluence Zero Day (CVE-2022-26134)

The Atlassian Confluence vulnerability is here to stay. See Akamai's research into the stats two weeks after the advisory was released...

Hackers Exploit Mitel VoIP Zero-Day in Likely Ransomware Attack

A suspected ransomware intrusion attempt against an unnamed target leveraged a Mitel VoIP appliance as an entry point to achieve remote code execution and gain initial access to the environment. The findings come from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, which traced the source of the attack to a...

Google Warns Spyware Being Deployed Against Android, iOS Users

Google is warning victims in Kazakhstan and Italy that they are being targeted by Hermit, a sophisticated and modular spyware from Italian vendor RCS Labs that not only can steal data but also record and make calls. Researchers from Google Threat Analysis Group TAG revealed details in a blog post...

DriftingCloud exploits zero-day in Sophos firewall

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Summary The Chinese APT actor DriftingCloud exploits the RCE vulnerability in Sophos firewall to take over the entire network...

Google Researchers Detail 5-Year-Old Apple Safari Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild

A security flaw in Apple Safari that was exploited in the wild earlier this year was originally fixed in 2013 and reintroduced in December 2016, according to a new report from Google Project Zero. The issue, tracked as CVE-2022-22620 CVSS score: 8.8, concerns a case of a use-after-free...

Chinese Hackers Exploited Sophos Firewall Zero-Day Flaw to Target South Asian Entity

A sophisticated Chinese advanced persistent threat APT actor exploited a critical security vulnerability in Sophos' firewall product that came to light earlier this year to infiltrate an unnamed South Asian target as part of a highly-targeted attack. "The attacker implemented an interesting web...

Follina: A zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Office

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Microsoft has issued a patch after almost 15 days for a zero-day vulnerability identified as CVE-2022-30190 after various proof-of-concept POCs indicating that it is actively exploited became public. Security...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, June 2022 Edition

Microsoft on Tuesday released software updates to fix 60 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and other software, including a zero-day flaw in all supported Microsoft Office versions on all flavors of Windows thats seen active exploitation for at least two months now. On a...

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...

June 2022 Patch Tuesday | Microsoft Releases 55 Vulnerabilities with 3 Critical; Adobe Releases 6 Advisories, 46 Vulnerabilities with 40 Critical.

Microsoft Patch Tuesday Summary Microsoft has fixed 55 vulnerabilities aka flaws in the June 2022 update, including three 3 vulnerabilities classified as Critical as they allow Remote Code Execution RCE. This months Patch Tuesday cumulative Windows update includes the fix for one 1 zero-day...

Weekly Digest 30 May – 5 June 2022

Published Vulnerabilities Interesting Vulnerabilities Active Threat Groups Targeted Countries Targeted Industries ATT&CK TTPs 412 24 1 45 3 13 For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary The first week of June 2022 witnessed the discovery of 412 vulnerabilities out of which 2...

Researchers Disclose Critical Flaws in Industrial Access Controllers from HID Mercury

As many as four zero-day security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the HID Mercury access controller system that's used widely in healthcare, education, transportation, and government facilities. "The vulnerabilities uncovered allowed us to demonstrate the ability to remotely unlock and loc...