Attacks, Vulnerabilities and Actors 01 to 07 July 2024

For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary HiveForce Labs has recently made substantial advancements in identifying cybersecurity threats. In just the past week, HiveForce Labs detected eleven executed attacks, reported five vulnerabilities, and identified three active...

Microsoft MSHTML Flaw Exploited to Deliver MerkSpy Spyware Tool

Unknown threat actors have been observed exploiting a now-patched security flaw in Microsoft MSHTML to deliver a surveillance tool called MerkSpy as part of a campaign primarily targeting users in Canada, India, Poland, and the U.S. "MerkSpy is designed to clandestinely monitor user activities,...

Microsoft MSHTML flaw exploited in Gmail and Instagram phishing scam

By Deeba Ahmed The attacks started in July 2021 in which threat actors exploited Microsoft MSHTML vulnerability to target overseas Iranians. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Microsoft MSHTML flaw exploited in Gmail and Instagram phishing scam...

Hackers Using Microsoft MSHTML Flaw to Spy on Targeted PCs with Malware

A new Iranian threat actor has been discovered exploiting a now-addressed critical flaw in the Microsoft Windows MSHTML platform to target Farsi-speaking victims with a previously undocumented PowerShell-based information stealer designed to harvest extensive details from infected machines. "The...

Exploit for Path Traversal in Microsoft

CVE-2021-40444-POC An attempt to reproduce Microsoft MSHTML Re...

Microsoft Windows Multiple Vulnerabilities (KB5005633)

This host is missing a critical security update according to Microsoft KB5005633 SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Talos release protection against zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft MSHTML

Cisco Talos released new SNORT® rules Thursday to protect against the exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft MSHTML that the company warns is being actively exploited in the wild. Users are encouraged to deploy SIDs 58120 – 58129, Snort 3 SID 300049 and ClamAV... This is only the...