Microsoft works with researchers to detect and protect against new RDP exploits

On November 2, 2019, security researcher Kevin Beaumont reported that his BlueKeep honeypot experienced crashes and was likely being exploited. Microsoft security researchers collaborated with Beaumont as well as another researcher, Marcus Hutchins, to investigate and analyze the crashes and...

BlueKeep Attacks Observed Months after Initial Release

The BlueKeep vulnerability, initially released in May 2019, is currently being exploited in the wild. Cybersecurity researchers have spotted initial attacks of Bluekeep RDP vulnerability. Here's a reminder about BlueKeep and instructions for using Qualys to identify attacks and remediate this...

The latest on BlueKeep and DejaBlue vulnerabilities — Using Firepower to defend against encrypted DejaBlue

Update 11/04/2019: There have been several public reports of active exploitation of CVE-2019-0708, commonly referred to as “BlueKeep.” Preliminary reports indicate that the vulnerability is being exploited by adversaries who are leveraging access to compromised systems to install cryptocurrency...

First Cyber Attack 'Mass Exploiting' BlueKeep RDP Flaw Spotted in the Wild

Cybersecurity researchers have spotted a new cyberattack that is believed to be the very first but an amateur attempt to weaponize the infamous BlueKeep RDP vulnerability in the wild to mass compromise vulnerable systems for cryptocurrency mining. In May this year, Microsoft released a patch for ...

McAfee ATR Analyzes Sodinokibi aka REvil Ransomware-as-a-Service - Crescendo

McAfee ATR Analyzes Sodinokibi aka REvil Ransomware-as-a-Service – Crescendo By Jessica Saavedra-Morales · October 20, 2019 Episode 4: Crescendo This is the final installment of the McAfee Advanced Threat Research ATR analysis of Sodinokibi and its connections to GandGrab, the most prolific...

McAfee ATR Analyzes Sodinokibi aka REvil Ransomware-as-a-Service - Crescendo

McAfee ATR Analyzes Sodinokibi aka REvil Ransomware-as-a-Service – Crescendo By Jessica Saavedra-Morales · October 20, 2019 Episode 4: Crescendo This is the final installment of the McAfee Advanced Threat Research ATR analysis of Sodinokibi and its connections to GandGrab, the most prolific...

Europol: Ransomware remains top threat in IOCTA report

The European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation, or Europol, just released its annual Internet Organized Crime Threat Assessment IOCTA report for the year. And we weren’t surprised to find that ransomware, despite its palpable decline in volume these past few months—a trend we’ve also...

CVE-2019-1326

A denial of service vulnerability exists in Remote Desktop Protocol RDP when an attacker connects to the target system using RDP and sends specially crafted requests, aka 'Windows Remote Desktop Protocol RDP Denial of Service Vulnerability'...

CVE-2019-1326

CVE-2019-1326 describes a denial of service vulnerability affecting Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). The Red Hat entry repeats the DoS description (attacker connects via RDP and sends specially crafted requests) but provides no further technical details, affected software versions, root cau...

Critical Microsoft Remote Desktop Flaw Fixed in Security Update

Microsoft released patches for nine critical vulnerabilities as part of its October Patch Tuesday security update, including one for a Remote Desktop bug that could allow a remote attacker to execute code on victims’ machines. Overall, Microsoft issued fixes for 59 vulnerabilities – including nin...

Microsoft Releases October 2019 Patch Tuesday Updates

Microsoft today rolling out its October 2019 Patch Tuesday security updates to fix a total of 59 vulnerabilities in Windows operating systems and related software, 9 of which are rated as critical, 49 are important, and one is moderate in severity. What’s good about this month’s patch update is...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday — Oct. 2019: Vulnerability disclosures and Snort coverage

By Jon Munshaw. Microsoft released its monthly security update today, disclosing a variety of vulnerabilities in several of its products. The latest Patch Tuesday discloses 60 vulnerabilities, nine of which are considered "critical," with the rest being deemed "important." This month’s security...

DEBIAN-CVE-2019-17177

libfreerdp/codec/region.c in FreeRDP through 1.1.x and 2.x through 2.0.0-rc4 has memory leaks because a supplied realloc pointer i.e., the first argument to realloc is also used for a realloc return value...

Vulnerability of the nsc_rle_decode() function in the RDP client FreeRDP, allowing a hacker to cause a service failure or execute arbitrary code

The vulnerability of the nscrledecode function in the RDP client FreeRDP is related to buffer overflow in memory. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a remote attacker to cause service failures or execute arbitrary code...

McAfee ATR Analyzes Sodinokibi aka REvil Ransomware-as-a-Service - What The Code Tells Us

McAfee ATR Analyzes Sodinokibi aka REvil Ransomware-as-a-Service – What The Code Tells Us By McAfee Labs · October 2, 2019 Episode 1: What the Code Tells Us McAfee’s Advanced Threat Research team ATR observed a new ransomware family in the wild, dubbed Sodinokibi or REvil, at the end of April 201...

Microsoft Windows - BlueKeep RDP Remote Windows Kernel Use After Free (Metasploit)

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework Exploitation and Caveats from zerosum0x0: 1. Register with channel MST120 and others such as RDPDR/RDPSND nominally. 2. Perform a full RDP handshake, I like to wait for...

Microsoft Windows - BlueKeep RDP Remote Windows Kernel Use After Free Exploit

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework Exploitation and Caveats from zerosum0x0: 1. Register with channel MST120 and others such as RDPDR/RDPSND nominally. 2. Perform a full RDP handshake, I like to wait for...

BlueKeep RDP Remote Windows Kernel Use-After-Free

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework Exploitation and Caveats from zerosum0x0: 1. Register with channel MST120 and others such as RDPDR/RDPSND nominally. 2. Perform a full RDP handshake, I like to wait for...

CVE-2019-1290

Technical details about CVE-2019-1290 are not publicly provided in the connected documents; the materials describe the vulnerability in general terms and reference other CVEs. Monitor for updates.

Microsoft Remote Desktop Services Remote Code Execution (CVE-2019-0787)

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft Remote Desktop Services ? formerly known as Terminal Services. A remote attacker may exploit this issue by enticing a victim to connect to a malicious RDP server. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker ...