Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday (August 2021) – Microsoft 51 Vulnerabilities with 7 Critical, Adobe 29 Vulnerabilities

Microsoft Patch Tuesday – August 2021 Microsoft patched 51 vulnerabilities in their August 2021 Patch Tuesday release, and 7 of them are rated as critical severity. Three 0-day vulnerability patches were included in the release. Critical Microsoft Vulnerabilities Patched CVE-2021-36942 - Windows...

Exploit for Use After Free in Microsoft

CVE-2021-31166 is a proof of concept for a remote UAF Use-After-Free vulnerability in the HTTP.sys protocol stack. The bug occurs in the http!UlpParseContentCoding function, which appends items to a local LISTENTRY and then moves it into the Request structure without NULLing out the local list...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, February 2021 Edition

Microsoft today rolled out updates to plug at least 56 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software. One of the bugs is already being actively exploited, and six of them were publicized prior to today, potentially giving attackers a head start in figuring out how to exploit...

Exploit for CVE-2020-17057

cve-2020-17057 cve-2020-17057 poc 微软于2020-11-10日发布补丁修补...

A week in security (January 11 – January 17)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we looked at IoT problems, Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday, and how cybercriminals want access to your cloud services. We also explored how VPNs can protect your privacy, and asked if MSPs have picked the right PSA. Other cybersecurity news Hot phishing targets: Some...

PT-2021-1809 · Microsoft · Windows

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Windows affected versions not specified Description: The issue is related to an impersonation vulnerability in the Passkey Entry Protocol of the Bluetooth service in Windows operating systems. This vulnerability is associated with...

Vulristics Vulnerability Score, Automated Data Collection and Microsoft Patch Tuesdays Q4 2020

In this episode I would like to make a status update of my Vulristics project. For those who dont know, in this project I retrieve publicly available vulnerability data and analyze it to better understand the severity of these vulnerabilities and better prioritize them. Currently, it is mainly...

Threat Source newsletter (Nov. 12, 2020)

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Good afternoon, Talos readers. We’re back after a few-week hiatus! And to celebrate, we just dropped some new research on the CRAT trojan that’s bringing some ransomware friends along with it. This blog post has all the details of this threat along with what yo...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday Update Fixes 17 Critical Bugs

Microsoft’s November Patch Tuesday roundup of security fixes tackled an unusually large crop of remote code execution RCE bugs. Twelve of Microsoft’s 17 critical patches were tied to RCE bugs. In all, 112 vulnerabilities were patched by Microsoft, with 93 rated important, and two rated low in...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, October 2020 Edition

Its Cybersecurity Awareness Month! In keeping with that theme, if you abuse Microsoft Windows computers you should be aware the company shipped a bevy of software updates today to fix at least 87 security problems in Windows and programs that run on top of the operating system. That means its onc...

Zerologon Patches Roll Out Beyond Microsoft

UPDATE The “perfect” Windows vulnerability known as the Zerologon bug is getting a patch assist from two non-Microsoft sources, as they strive to fill in the gaps that the official fix doesn’t address. They roll out as Microsoft announced that it is tracking active exploitation in the wild. “We...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday August 2020: vulnerabilities with Detected Exploitation, useful for phishing and others

This time I would like to review not only the vulnerabilities that were published in the last August Microsoft Patch Tuesday, but also the CVEs that were published on other, not Patch Tuesday, days. Of course, if there are any. But lets start with the vulnerabilities that were presented on MS Pat...

This Week in Security News: Trend Micro Research Discovers Cybercriminal Turf War on Routers and a Massive Twitter Breach Compromises Some of the World’s Most Prominent Accounts

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, read about Trend Micro’s report on the botnet battle for IoT territory and how attacker groups are trying to gain control of vulnerable...

BSA-2020-1051

Security Advisory ID : BSA-2020-1051 Component : Windows DNS Revision : 1.0: Final A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Windows Domain Name System servers when they fail to properly handle requests. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code in th...

Threat Source newsletter for June 11, 2020

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Good afternoon, Talos readers. We are back this week with new content, mainly around Microsoft Patch Tuesday. We have our complete breakdown of all the vulns here, as well as in-depth information on two remote code execution vulnerabilities one of our researche...

Looking at Big Threats Using Code Similarity. Part 1

Today, we are announcing the release of KTAE, the Kaspersky Threat Attribution Engine. This code attribution technology, developed initially for internal use by the Kaspersky Global Research and Analysis Team, is now being made available to a wider audience. You can read more about KTAE in our...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday April 2020: my classification script, confusing RCE in Adobe Type Manager and updates for older vulnerabilities

Easiest task ever? Making the reviews of Microsoft Patch Tuesday vulnerabilities should be an easy task. All vulnerability data is publicly available. Even better, dozens of reviews have already been written. Just read them, combine and post. Right? Not really. In fact it is quite boring and...

Threat Source newsletter for April 16, 2020

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. It’s what — week 5 of this quarantine in the U.S.? Week 6? We’ve lost count. And so did the Beers with Talos guys. But lucky for you, th...

CVE-2020-1094

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Work Folder Service improperly handles file operations, aka ‘Windows Work Folder Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability’. Recent assessments: bac2binary at April 15, 2020 4:47pm UTC reported: The attack complexity is very less,...

Threat Analysis: CVE-2020-0796 – EternalDarkness (ghostSMB)

On March 10, 2020 analysis of a SMB vulnerability was inadvertently shared, under the assumption that Microsoft was releasing a patch for that vulnerability CVE-2020-0796. As of March 12, Microsoft has since released a patch for CVE-2020-0796, which is a vulnerability specifically affecting SMB3...