Gamifying machine learning for stronger security and AI models

To stay ahead of adversaries, who show no restraint in adopting tools and techniques that can help them attain their goals, Microsoft continues to harness AI and machine learning to solve security challenges. One area we’ve been experimenting on is autonomous systems. In a simulated enterprise...

Linux Kernel 5.4 - (BleedingTooth) Bluetooth Zero-Click Remote Code Execution Exploit

Exploit Title: Linux Kernel 5.4 - 'BleedingTooth' Bluetooth Zero-Click Remote Code Execution Exploit Author: Google Security Research Andy Nguyen Tested on: 5.4.0-48-generic 52-Ubuntu SMP Thu Sep 10 10:58:49 UTC 2020 x8664 x8664 x8664 GNU/Linux CVE : CVE-2020-12351, CVE-2020-12352 / BleedingTooth...

Linux Kernel 5.4 - 'BleedingTooth' Bluetooth Zero-Click Remote Code Execution

Exploit Title: Linux Kernel 5.4 - 'BleedingTooth' Bluetooth Zero-Click Remote Code Execution Date: 06/04/2020 Exploit Author: Google Security Research Andy Nguyen Tested on: 5.4.0-48-generic 52-Ubuntu SMP Thu Sep 10 10:58:49 UTC 2020 x8664 x8664 x8664 GNU/Linux CVE : CVE-2020-12351, CVE-2020-1235...

Rapid7 Releases New Industry Cyber-Exposure Report (ICER): Fortune 500

Today, Rapid7 just released the first in our all-new Industry Cyber-Exposure Report ICER series. For those of you who have been following our research over the past few years, you may immediately suspect us of unloading another 100+ page tome of internet-based findings around the internet—but not...

Who Contains the Containers?

Posted by James Forshaw, Project Zero This is a short blog post about a research project I conducted on Windows Server Containers that resulted in four privilege escalations which Microsoft fixed in March 2021. In the post, I describe what led to this research, my research process, and insights...

CVE-2021-23982

CVE-2021-23982 is a concrete WebRTC-based information-disclosure vulnerability affecting Mozilla products. The connected documents confirm that a malicious webpage could probe an internal network’s hosts and services running on the user’s machine via WebRTC. Affected products/versions: Firefox ES...

CVE-2021-23982

Using techniques that built on the slipstream research, a malicious webpage could have scanned both an internal network's hosts as well as services running on the user's local machine utilizing WebRTC connections. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR 78.9, Firefox 87, and Thunderbird 78.9...

APT Charming Kitten Pounces on Medical Researchers

Security researchers have linked a late-2020 phishing campaign aimed at stealing credentials from 25 senior professionals at medical research organizations in the United States and Israel to an advanced persistent threat group with links to Iran called Charming Kitten. The campaign—dubbed BadBloo...

Concrete5 8.5.4 Cross Site Scripting

Exploit Title: Concrete5 8.5.4 - 'name' Stored XSS Date: 2021-01 Exploit Author: Quadron Research Lab Version: Concrete5 8.5.4 Tested on: Windows 10 x64 HUN/ENG Professional Vendor: Concrete5 CMS https://www.concrete5.org CVE: CVE-2021-3111 Suggested description The Express Entries Dashboard...

Concrete5 8.5.4 - 'name' Stored XSS

Exploit Title: Concrete5 8.5.4 - 'name' Stored XSS Date: 2021-01 Exploit Author: Quadron Research Lab Version: Concrete5 8.5.4 Tested on: Windows 10 x64 HUN/ENG Professional Vendor: Concrete5 CMS https://www.concrete5.org CVE: CVE-2021-3111 Suggested description The Express Entries Dashboard...

Securing our approach to domain fronting within Azure

Every single day our teams analyze the trillions of signals we see to understand attack vectors, and then take those learnings and apply them to our products and solutions. Having that understanding of the threat landscape is key to ensuring our customers are kept safe every day. However, being a...

Microsoft Offers Up To $30K For Teams Bugs

Microsoft wants to send the message the company is serious about the security of its popular Teams desktop application and it’s willing to put some cash behind the talk. A new bug-bounty program offers up to $30,000 for security vulnerabilities, with top payouts going to those with the most...

Mozilla: Internal network hosts could have been probed by a malicious webpage

Using techniques that built on the slipstream research, a malicious webpage could have scanned both an internal network's hosts as well as services running on the user's local machine utilizing WebRTC connections. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR 78.9, Firefox 87, and Thunderbird 78.9...

Mozilla Thunderbird < 78.9

The version of Thunderbird installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 78.9. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2021-12 advisory. - Mozilla developers and community members Alexis Beingessner, Tyson Smith, Julien Wajsberg, and Matthew...

Introducing Bounty Awards for Teams Desktop Client Security Research

Partnering with the security research community is an important part of Microsoft’s holistic approach to defending against security threats. As much of the world has shifted to working from home in the last year, Microsoft Teams has enabled people to stay connected, organized, and collaborate...

How one data scientist is pioneering techniques to detect security threats

Data science is an increasingly popular field of study that’s relevant to every industry. When Maria Puertas Calvo was a student, she never imagined that one day she would pioneer data science techniques to detect security threats. She started her Microsoft career on the Safety Platform team,...

Introducing Bounty Awards for Teams Desktop Client Security Research

Partnering with the security research community is an important part of Microsoft’s holistic approach to defending against security threats. As much of the world has shifted to working from home in the last year, Microsoft Teams has enabled people to stay connected, organized, and collaborate...

Introducing Bounty Awards for Teams Desktop Client Security Research

Partnering with the security research community is an important part of Microsoft’s holistic approach to defending against security threats. As much of the world has shifted to working from home in the last year, Microsoft Teams has enabled people to stay connected, organized, and collaborate...

CVE-2021-23982

Using techniques that built on the slipstream research, a malicious webpage could have scanned both an internal network's hosts as well as services running on the user's local machine utilizing WebRTC connections. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR 78.9, Firefox 87, and Thunderbird 78.9...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 78.9 — Mozilla

A transient execution vulnerability, named Floating Point Value Injection FPVI allowed an attacker to leak arbitrary memory addresses and may have also enabled JIT type confusion attacks. A related vulnerability, Speculative Code Store Bypass SCSB, did not affect Firefox. A texture upload of a...