Vulnerabilities & Threats that Matter 08 – 14th Aug

Published Vulnerabilities Interesting Vulnerabilities Active Threat Groups Targeted Countries Targeted Industries ATT&CK TTPs 563 14 3 69 08 71 For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary The second week of August 2022 witnessed the discovery of 563 vulnerabilities out of whi...

Sloppy Software Patches Are a ‘Disturbing Trend’

The Zero Day Initiative has found a concerning uptick in security updates that fail to fix vulnerabilities...

[updated] Thousands of Zimbra mail servers backdoored in large scale attack

Researchers at Volexity have discovered that a known vulnerability has been used in a large scale attack against Zimbra Collaboration Suite ZCS email servers. But the vulnerability was supposed to be hard to exploit since it required authentication. So they decided to dig deeper. An incomplete fi...

Zero-day vulnerability leveraged to deploy Cuba Ransomware

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Summary The threat actors behind the Cuba ransomware have stepped up their game by using a new Remote Access Trojan called ROMCOM and weaponizing a local privilege escalation vulnerabilityCVE-2022-24521. A wide range o...

Microsoft tackles DogWalk zero-day vulnerability and multiple privilege escalation vulnerabilities

Threat Level Vulnerability Report For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Microsoft Patch Tuesday addresses CVE-2022-34713, also known as DogWalk, as well as numerous issues affecting Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Windows Support Diagnostic Tool MSDT, Windows Print...

Microsoft Patches ‘Dogwalk’ Zero-Day and 17 Critical Flaws

Microsoft is urging users to patch a zero-day vulnerability dubbed Dogwalk that is actively being exploited in the wild. The bug CVE-2022-34713 is tied to a Microsoft Windows Support Diagnostic Tool and allows a remote attacker to execute code on a vulnerable system. “The volume of fixes released...

Microsoft Issues Patches for 121 Flaws, Including Zero-Day Under Active Attack

As many as 121 new security flaws were patched by Microsoft as part of its Patch Tuesday updates for the month of August, which also includes a fix for a Support Diagnostic Tool vulnerability that the company said is being actively exploited in the wild. Of the 121 bugs, 17 are rated Critical, 10...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, August 2022 Edition

Microsoft today released updates to fix a record 141 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and related software. Once again, Microsoft is patching a zero-day vulnerability in the Microsoft Support Diagnostics Tool MSDT, a service built into Windows. Redmond also addressed...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday for August 2022 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities

By Jon Munshaw and Vanja Svajcer. Microsoft released its monthly security update Tuesday, disclosing more than 120 vulnerabilities across its line of products and software, the most in a single Patch Tuesday in four months. This batch of updates also includes a fix for a new vulnerability in the...

August 2022 Patch Tuesday | Microsoft Releases 121 Vulnerabilities with 17 Critical, plus 20 Microsoft Edge (Chromium-Based); Adobe Releases 5 Advisories, 25 Vulnerabilities with 15 Critical.

Microsoft Patch Tuesday Summary Microsoft has fixed 121 vulnerabilities aka flaws in the August 2022 update, including 17 vulnerabilities classified as Critical as they allow Elevation of Privilege EoP and Remote Code Execution RCE. This months Patch Tuesday fixes two 2 zero-day vulnerabilities,...

Vulnerabilities & Threats that Matter 01 – 07th Aug

Published Vulnerabilities Interesting Vulnerabilities Active Threat Groups Targeted Countries Targeted Industries ATT&CK TTPs 461 12 1 60 30 26 For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary The first week of August 2022 witnessed the discovery of 461 vulnerabilities out of whic...

Hackers Exploit Twitter Vulnerability to Exposes 5.4 Million Accounts

Twitter on Friday revealed that a now-patched zero-day bug was used to link phone numbers and emails to user accounts on the social media platform. "As a result of the vulnerability, if someone submitted an email address or phone number to Twitter's systems, Twitter's systems would tell the perso...

Vulnerabilities & Threats that Matter 25 – 31st July

Published Vulnerabilities Interesting Vulnerabilities Active Threat Groups Targeted Countries Targeted Industries ATT&CK TTPs 462 7 4 52 22 64 For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary The Last week of July 2022 witnessed the discovery of 462 vulnerabilities out of which 7...

Microsoft Zero-Days Sold and then Used

Yet another article about cyber-weapons arms manufacturers and their particular supply chain. This one is about Windows and Adobe Reader zero-day exploits sold by an Austrian company named DSIRF. Theres an entire industry devoted to undermining all of our security. It needs to be stopped...

Malicious Npm Packages Tapped Again to Target Discord Users

Threat actors once again are using the node package manager npm repository to hide malware that can steal Discord tokens to monitor user sessions and steal data on the popular chat and collaboration platform, researchers have found. A campaign discovered this week by Kaspersky researchers is hidi...

Microsoft Uncovers Austrian Company Exploiting Windows and Adobe Zero-Day Exploits

A cyber mercenary that "ostensibly sells general security and information analysis services to commercial customers" used several Windows and Adobe zero-day exploits in limited and highly-targeted attacks against European and Central American entities. The company, which Microsoft describes as a...

Spyware Group Candiru exploits Chrome Zero-Day to Target Middle East

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Summary CandiruSaito Tech spyware used the recently fixed CVE-2022-2294 Chrome zero-day in assaults on journalists, with a substantial portion of the attacks taking place in Lebanon. This recently patched vulnerability...

Server memory information leak via SMB1.

Description Please note that only versions of Samba prior to 4.11.0 are vulnerable to this bug by default. Samba versions 4.11.0 and above disable SMB1 by default, and will only be vulnerable if the administrator has deliberately enabled SMB1 in the smb.conf file. All versions of Samba with SMB1...

Hackers Exploit PrestaShop Zero-Day to Steal Payment Data from Online Stores

Malicious actors are exploiting a previously unknown security flaw in the open source PrestaShop e-commerce platform to inject malicious skimmer code designed to swipe sensitive information. "Attackers have found a way to use a security vulnerability to carry out arbitrary code execution in serve...

Israeli Spyware Vendor Uses Chrome 0day to Target Journalists

By Deeba Ahmed The spyware vendor Candiru used the Chrome zero-day in March 2022 to target journalists and other unsuspected victims… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Israeli Spyware Vendor Uses Chrome 0day to Target Journalists...