August Patch Tuesday stops actively exploited attack chain and more

Augusts Patch Tuesday is a lot quieter than it was last month, when Microsoft patched a whopping 130 vulnerabilities. That number went down to 87 this month but it does include two actively exploited vulnerabilities. Lets start by looking at those two: CVE-2023-38180 CVSS score 7.5 out of 10: a...

Akamai’s Perspective on August’s Patch Tuesday 2023

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Patch Tuesday - August 2023

Microsoft is addressing 86 vulnerabilities this August Patch Tuesday, including one zero-day vulnerability, as well as five critical remote code execution RCE vulnerabilities, and 12 browser vulnerabilities. An unpatched zero-day malicious document vulnerability from July also receives Windows OS...

Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, August 2023 Security Update Review

Microsoft has released its August edition of Patch Tuesday. This months updates have addressed 89 security vulnerabilities in multiple products, features, and roles. Microsoft Patch Tuesday for August 2023 Microsoft has addressed two zero-day vulnerabilities known to be publicly exploited in this...

PT-2023-4225

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions .NET and Visual Studio versions prior to the fixed version in August 2023 Patch Tuesday Description The issue is related to a Denial of Service DoS vulnerability in .NET and Visual Studio. It can be exploited for DoS attacks with no user...

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...

Akamai’s Perspective on July’s Patch Tuesday 2023

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Microsoft’s July 2023 Patch Tuesday Addresses 5 Zero-day Vulnerabilities

Threat Level Vulnerability Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Microsofts July 2023 Patch Tuesday includes security updates for 130 flaws, including five actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities, nine are rated as Critical’, and 37 remote code execution...

Microsoft Releases Patches for 132 Vulnerabilities, Including 6 Under Active Attack

Microsoft on Tuesday released updates to address a total of 132 new security flaws spanning its software, including six zero-day flaws that it said have been actively exploited in the wild. Of the 132 vulnerabilities, nine are rated Critical, 122 are rated Important in severity, and one has been...

Patch Tuesday - July 2023

Microsoft is addressing 130 vulnerabilities this July Patch Tuesday, including five zero-day vulnerabilities, and eight further critical remote code execution RCE vulnerabilities. Overall, it’s safe to say that this is a busier Patch Tuesday than the past couple of months. Note that the total cou...

Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, July 2023 Security Update Review

Microsoft has released Julys edition of Patch Tuesday! This installment of security updates addressed 132 security vulnerabilities in various products, features, and roles. Microsoft Patch Tuesday for July 2023 This months Patch Tuesday edition has fixed six zero-day vulnerabilities known to be...

Microsoft discloses more than 130 vulnerabilities as part of July’s Patch Tuesday, four exploited in the wild

Microsoft released its monthly security update Tuesday, disclosing the most vulnerabilities as part of Patch Tuesday in more than a year. The company released details of more than 130 vulnerabilities, the most in a month since April 2022, 10 of which are considered to be critical. The remaining...

URLs have always been a great hiding place for threat actors

Welcome to this weeks edition of the Threat Source newsletter. Talos recent blog post on the dangers posed by the newly released ".zip" top-level domain TLD recently outlined how threat actors could create real URLs that look like file names and trick users into clicking on their links. .Zip and...

Microsoft’s June 2023 Patch Tuesday Addresses 78 Vulnerabilities

Threat Level Vulnerability Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Microsofts June 2023 Patch Tuesday addressed 78 flaws, including 38 remote code execution vulnerabilities. Notable fixes included SharePoint and Exchange Server vulnerabilities, while no zero-day...

Microsoft Releases Updates to Patch Critical Flaws in Windows and Other Software

Microsoft has rolled out fixes for its Windows operating system and other software components to remediate major security shortcomings as part of Patch Tuesday updates for June 2023. Of the 73 flaws, six are rated Critical, 63 are rated Important, two are rated Moderate, and one is rated Low in...

Microsoft Releases Updates to Patch Critical Flaws in Windows and Other Software

Microsoft has rolled out fixes for its Windows operating system and other software components to remediate major security shortcomings as part of Patch Tuesday updates for June 2023. Of the 73 flaws, six are rated Critical, 63 are rated Important, two are rated Moderated, and one is rated Low in...

Microsoft fixes six critical vulnerabilities in June Patch Tuesday

Its that time of the month again: We're looking at June's Patch Tuesday roundup. Microsoft has released its monthly update, and compared to previous months, its actually not so bad. No actively exploited zero-days and only six critical vulnerabilities. So, well have the luxury of going over those...

Patch Tuesday - June 2023

It’s June, and it’s Patch Tuesday. The volume of fixes this month is typical compared with recent history: 94 in total including Edge-on-Chromium. For the first time in a while, Microsoft isn’t offering patches for any zero-day vulnerabilities, but we do get fixes for four critical Remote Code...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, June 2023 Edition

Microsoft Corp. today released software updates to fix dozens of security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and other software. This months relatively light patch load has another added bonus for system administrators everywhere: It appears to be the first Patch Tuesday since March...

Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, June 2023 Security Update Review

Microsoft has released Junes edition of Patch Tuesday! This installment of security updates addressed 94 security vulnerabilities in various products, features, and roles. Microsoft Patch Tuesday for June 2023 No zero-day vulnerabilities known to be exploited in the wild have been fixed in this...