GHSA-7PWQ-F4PQ-78GM `rustdecimal` is a malicious crate

The Rust Security Response WG and the crates.io team were notified1 on 2022-05-02 of the existence of the malicious crate rustdecimal, which contained malware. The crate name was intentionally similar to the name of the popular rustdecimal2 crate, hoping that potential victims would misspell its...

GHSA-8V7H-CPC2-R8JP October CMS upload process vulnerable to RCE via Race Condition

Impact This advisory affects plugins that expose the October\Rain\Database\Attach\File::fromData as a public interface. This vulnerability does not affect vanilla installations of October CMS since this method is not exposed or used by the system internally or externally. When the developer allow...

October CMS upload process vulnerable to RCE via Race Condition

Impact This advisory affects plugins that expose the October\Rain\Database\Attach\File::fromData as a public interface. This vulnerability does not affect vanilla installations of October CMS since this method is not exposed or used by the system internally or externally. When the developer allow...

Apple's New "Lockdown Mode" Protects iPhone, iPad, and Mac Against Spyware

Apple on Wednesday announced it plans to introduce an enhanced security setting called Lockdown Mode in iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and macOS Ventura to safeguard high-risk users against "highly targeted cyberattacks." The "extreme, optional protection" feature, now available for preview in beta versions ...

Apple's New Feature Will Install Security Updates Automatically Without Full OS Update

Apple has introduced a Rapid Security Response feature in iOS 16 and macOS Ventura that's designed to deploy security fixes without the need for a full operating system version update. "macOS security gets even stronger with new tools that make the Mac more resistant to attack, including Rapid...

Anatomy of a Security Update

The Microsoft Security Response Center is part of the defender community and on the front line of security response for our customers and the company. Our mission is to protect customers and Microsoft from current and emerging threats related to security and privacy. We monitor threats and provid...

Anatomy of a Security Update

The Microsoft Security Response Center is part of the defender community and on the front line of security response for our customers and the company. Our mission is to protect customers and Microsoft from current and emerging threats related to security and privacy. We monitor threats and provid...

Anatomy of a Security Update

The Microsoft Security Response Center is part of the defender community and on the front line of security response for our customers and the company. Our mission is to protect customers and Microsoft from current and emerging threats related to security and privacy. We monitor threats and provid...

malicious crate `rustdecimal`

The Rust Security Response WG and the crates.io team were notified1 on 2022-05-02 of the existence of the malicious crate rustdecimal, which contained malware. The crate name was intentionally similar to the name of the popular rustdecimal2 crate, hoping that potential victims would misspell its...

Microsoft Security Update Validation Report April 2022

Microsoft’s April 2022 security updates have passed Citrix testing the updates are listed below. The testing is not all-inclusive; all tests are executed against English only environments and issues may still be found upon implementation. Follow best practices for testing and installing software...

ウクライナにおけるサイバー脅威アクティビティ: 分析とリソース

本ブログは、Cyber threat activity in Ukraine: analysis and resources – Microsoft Security Response Center の抄訳版です。最新の情報は原文を参照してください。 2022 年...

Celebrating 20 Years of Trustworthy Computing

20 years ago this week, Bill Gates sent a now-famous email to all Microsoft employees announcing the creation of the Trustworthy Computing TwC initiative. The initiative was intended to put customer security, and ultimately customer trust, at the forefront for all Microsoft employees. Gates’ memo...

Celebrating 20 Years of Trustworthy Computing

20 years ago this week, Bill Gates sent a now-famous email to all Microsoft employees announcing the creation of the Trustworthy Computing TwC initiative. The initiative was intended to put customer security, and ultimately customer trust, at the forefront for all Microsoft employees. Gates’ memo...

Race condition

Rust is a multi-paradigm, general-purpose programming language designed for performance and safety, especially safe concurrency. The Rust Security Response WG was notified that the std::fs::removedirall standard library function is vulnerable a race condition enabling symlink following CWE-363. A...

CVE-2022-21658

Rust is a multi-paradigm, general-purpose programming language designed for performance and safety, especially safe concurrency. The Rust Security Response WG was notified that the std::fs::removedirall standard library function is vulnerable a race condition enabling symlink following CWE-363. A...

StackStorm Injection Vulnerability

StackStorm is an event-driven automation platform. The platform is used for automated remediation, security response, troubleshooting and program deployment, etc. An injection vulnerability exists in StackStorm, which stems from the failure of a network system or product to properly filter specia...

CISA and FBI Release Alert on Active Exploitation of CVE-2021-44077 in Zoho ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus

CISA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI have released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory identifying active exploitation of a vulnerability—CVE-2021-44077—in Zoho ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus. CVE-2021-44077 is an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability that affects all...

Compilers permit Unicode control and homoglyph characters

Overview Attacks that allow for unintended control of Unicode and homoglyphic characters, described by the researchers in this report leverage text encoding that may cause source code to be interpreted differently by a compiler than it appears visually to a human reviewer. Source code compilers,...

Microsoft Security Update Validation Report October 2021

Microsoft’s October 2021 security updates have passed Citrix testing the updates are listed below. The testing is not all-inclusive; all tests are executed against English only environments and issues may still be found upon implementation. Follow best practices for testing and installing softwar...

Office 365 User Enumeration

Enumerate valid usernames email addresses from Office 365 using ActiveSync. Differences in the HTTP Response code and HTTP Headers can be used to differentiate between: - Valid Username Response code 401 - Valid Username and Password without 2FA Response Code 200 - Valid Username and Password wit...