February Microsoft Patch Tuesday

February Microsoft Patch Tuesday. 89 CVEs, 33 added since January. Two with signs of exploitation in the wild: EoP - Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock CVE-2025-21418 EoP - Windows Storage CVE-2025-21391 There are no vulnerabilities with public exploits, but there are 7 with private...

Microsoft's Patch Tuesday Fixes 63 Flaws, Including Two Under Active Exploitation

Microsoft on Tuesday released fixes for 63 security flaws impacting its software products, including two vulnerabilities that it said has come under active exploitation in the wild. Of the 63 vulnerabilities, three are rated Critical, 57 are rated Important, one is rated Moderate, and two are rat...

The Elevation of Privilege – Windows Common Log File System Driver (CVE-2024-49138) has become more critical

The Elevation of Privilege - Windows Common Log File System Driver CVE-2024-49138 has become more critical. Just as I wrote that nothing had been heard about this vulnerability for a month since it was first published in Microsoft's December Patch Tuesday, a public exploit for it appeared on...

What has become known about the Elevation of Privilege – Windows Common Log File System Driver (CVE-2024-49138) vulnerability from the December Microsoft Patch Tuesday a month later?

What has become known about the Elevation of Privilege - Windows Common Log File System Driver CVE-2024-49138 vulnerability from the December Microsoft Patch Tuesdaya month later? Almost nothing. This is a vulnerability in a standard Windows component, available in all versions starting with...

January Microsoft Patch Tuesday

January Microsoft Patch Tuesday. 170 CVEs, 10 of them were added since December MSPT. 3 exploited in the wild: EoP - Windows Hyper-V NT Kernel Integration VSP CVE-2025-21333, CVE-2025-21334, CVE-2025-21335. No details yet. No vulnerabilities have public exploits. 5 have private ones: Security...

What is known about the Spoofing – Windows MSHTML Platform (CVE-2024-43573) vulnerability from the October Microsoft Patch Tuesday?

What is known about the Spoofing - Windows MSHTML Platform CVE-2024-43573 vulnerability from the October Microsoft Patch Tuesday? In fact, just that it is being exploited in the wild. There are no write-ups or public exploits yet. The Acknowledgements section in the Microsoft bulletin is empty. I...

The severity of the Elevation of Privilege – Windows Kernel-Mode Driver (CVE-2024-35250) vulnerability has increased

The severity of the Elevation of Privilege - Windows Kernel-Mode Driver CVE-2024-35250 vulnerability has increased. This vulnerability was fixed as part of the June Microsoft Patch Tuesday. As in the case of the CVE-2024-30090 vulnerability, it was discovered by a researcher with the nickname...

What NIST’s latest password standards mean, and why the old ones weren’t working

Say goodbye to the days of using the "@" symbol to mean "a" in your password or replacing an "S" with a "$." The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST recently announced new guidelines for the ways website and organizations should handle password creation and management that wi...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday March 2024 includes critical Hyper-V flaws

The March 2024 Patch Tuesday update includes patches for 61 Microsoft vulnerabilities. Only two of the vulnerabilities are rated critical and both of these are found in Windows Hyper-V. Hyper-V is a hardware virtualization product that allows you to run multiple operating systems as virtual...

October 2023: back to Positive Technologies, Vulristics updates, Linux Patch Wednesday, Microsoft Patch Tuesday, PhysTech VM lecture

October 2023: back to Positive Technologies, Vulristics updates, Linux Patch Wednesday, Microsoft Patch Tuesday, PhysTech VM lecture. Hello everyone! October was an interesting and busy month for me. I started a new job, worked on my open source Vulristics project, and analyzed vulnerabilities...

Unraveling the Intricate Arsenal of Stayin’ Alive Campaign

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary In the October Patch Tuesday release, Microsoft addressed 103 flaws, including three actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities. These patches cover critical and important vulnerabilities, a Chromium fi...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday July 2023: Vulristics improvements, Office RCE, SFB SmartScreen and Outlook, EoP MSHTML and ERS, other RCEs

Microsoft Patch Tuesday July 2023: Vulristics improvements, Office RCE, SFB SmartScreen and Outlook, EoP MSHTML and ERS, other RCEs. Hello everyone! This episode will be about Microsoft Patch Tuesday for July 2023, including vulnerabilities that were added between June and July Patch Tuesdays...

Actors, Threats and Vulnerabilities 08 to 14 May 2023

For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary HiveForce Labs recently made several significant discoveries related to cybersecurity threats. Over the past week, identified a total of nine attacks that were executed. Additionally, HiveForce Labs identified four different...

Threat Source newsletter (April 13, 2023) — Dark web forum whac-a-mole

Welcome to this weeks edition of the Threat Source newsletter. Law enforcement organizations across the globe notched a series of wins over the past few weeks against online forums for cybercriminals. On March 23, the FBI announced it disrupted the online cybercriminal marketplace BreachForums,...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday February 2023: Win Graphics RCE, Edge RCE, Publisher SFB, CLFS EoP, Exchange RCEs, Word RCE, HoloLens1

Hello everyone! This episode will be about Microsoft Patch Tuesday for February 2023, including vulnerabilities that were added between January and February Patch Tuesdays. Alternative video link for Russia: This month I decided to change the format a bit. Now I share my impression of Microsoft...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday January 2023: ALPC EoP, Win Backup EoP, LocalPotato, Exchange, Remote RCEs

Hello everyone! This episode will be about Microsoft Patch Tuesday for January 2023, including vulnerabilities that were added between December and January Patch Tuesdays. Alternative video link for Russia: As usual, I use my open source Vulristics project to analyse and prioritize vulnerabilitie...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday for January 2023 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities

Microsoft released its monthly security update on Tuesday, disclosing 98 vulnerabilities. Of these vulnerabilities, 11 are classified as "Critical", 87 are classified as "Important", no vulnerability classified as "Moderate." According to Microsoft all "Critical" vulnerability are either less...

Samba Issues Security Updates to Patch Multiple High-Severity Vulnerabilities

Samba has released software updates to remediate multiple vulnerabilities that, if successfully exploited, could allow an attacker to take control of affected systems. The high-severity flaws, tracked as CVE-2022-38023, CVE-2022-37966, CVE-2022-37967, and CVE-2022-45141, have been patched in...

QSC 2022: Qualys’ Threat Research Unit (TRU) – Our Shield Is Your Shield

Day two of QSC profiled the special launch of the Qualys Threat Research Unit, TRU. Taking the audience through a madcap tour of what the threat research unit is doing to provide intelligence and actionable insights into its census was Travis Smith, VP of Qualys Threat Research Unit. He dove deep...

Researchers Detail Windows Event Log Vulnerabilities: LogCrusher and OverLog

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details about a pair of vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, one of which could be exploited to result in a denial-of-service DoS. The exploits, dubbed LogCrusher and OverLog by Varonis, take aim at the EventLog Remoting Protocol MS-EVEN, which enables...