PHDays 10: U.S. Sanctions, My Talk on Vulristics, Other Great Talks Related to VM

Today I will talk about the Positive Hack Days conference, which took place on May 20 and May 21 in Moscow. I can say that this was and remains the main event for Information Security Practitioners in Russia. First of all, I have to say a few words about the sanctions. The organizer of the event,...

Про уязвимость Spoofing - Microsoft SharePoint Server (CVE-2026-32201)

About Spoofing - Microsoft SharePoint Server CVE-2026-32201 vulnerability. A vulnerability from the April Microsoft Patch Tuesday. The description provided by Microsoft experts is extremely vague: "Improper input validation in Microsoft Office SharePoint allows an unauthorized attacker to perform...

VirtualBox GuestAdditions for Linux Guest OS

I often work with VirtualBox virtual machines and need to install GuestAdditions to use GUI applications comfortably. So, I decided to collect here some configuration scripts. CentOS 7 In the configuration a new VirtualBox machine I add 2 network adapters: Host Only Network NAT Installing clean...

WannaCry about Vulnerability Management

Nearly all mainstream media wrote today about massive ransomware attacks around the world: 16 medical institutions in UK, strong rumours that huge companies in Russia, and even Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs suffered a damage. At this moment Kaspersky recorded more than 45,000 attacks in 74...

May Microsoft Patch Tuesday

May Microsoft Patch Tuesday. A total of 93 vulnerabilities - about 1.5 times fewer than in April. Of these, 22 were added between the April and May MSPT. There are 5 vulnerabilities show signs of in-the-wild exploitation: EoP - Microsoft DWM Core Library CVE-2025-30400 EoP - Windows CLFS Driver...

About Elevation of Privilege – needrestart (CVE-2024-48990) vulnerability

About Elevation of Privilege - needrestart CVE-2024-48990 vulnerability. On November 19, Qualys released a security bulletin about five privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the needrestart utility CVE-2024-48990, CVE-2024-48991, CVE-2024-48992, CVE-2024-10224, and CVE-2024-11003 used in Ubuntu...

Detectify Asset Inventory and Monitoring

Continuing the topic about perimeter services. As I mentioned earlier, I don't think that the external perimeter services should be considered as a fully functional replacement for custom Vulnerability Management processes. I would rather see their results as an additional feed showing the proble...

Vulnerability Management vendors and Vulnerability Remediation problems

It's not a secret, that Vulnerability Management vendors don't pay much attention to the actual process of fixing vulnerabilities, that they detect in the infrastructure Vulnerability Remediation. Although it seems to be the main goal of VM products: to make vulnerabilities fixed and whole IT...

My projects that are not related to Information Security: Yennysay TTS and PyTouchOk companion app

Thanks to the long New Year holidays in Russia, I had time to work on my own projects that are not related to information security. I released them on github and recorded short demos by the way, Zoom is quite convenient for this! ?. Yennysay is a GUI text-to-speach tool that uses a free offline T...

CISO Forum 2017

Last week I have attended CISO Forum 2017 in Moscow. I was talking there about "Vulnerability Quadrants: automated hot topic detection in public vulnerability CVE flow". Today I want to share my impressions about the forum itself. To be short, I liked it very much. Both exhibition and...

About Elevation of Privilege – Windows Update Service (CVE-2025-48799) vulnerability

About Elevation of Privilege - Windows Update Service CVE-2025-48799 vulnerability. This vulnerability is from the July Microsoft Patch Tuesday. Improper link resolution before file access 'link following' in the Windows Update Service allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges to "NT...

Code IB 2019: Vulnerability Management Masterclass

On March 29, I held one hour master class "HOW to avoid excessive formalism in Vulnerability Management process" at Code IB Profi 2019. Everything went quite well and I've got 88% positive ratings. Not bad result ^^. The main feature of the conference was a very special audience. The only way to...

January Linux Patch Wednesday

JanuaryLinux Patch Wednesday. In January, Linux vendors started fixing 918 vulnerabilities, one and a half times more than in December. Of these, 616 are in the Linux Kernel. Three show signs of exploitation in the wild: 🔻 AuthBypass - GNU Inetutils telnetd CVE-2026-24061 🔻 RCE - Safari...

New episode “In The Trend of VM” (#10): 8 trending vulnerabilities of November, zero budget VM and who should look for patches

New episode "In The Trend of VM" 10: 8 trending vulnerabilities of November, zero budget VM and who should look for patches. The competition for the best question on the topic of VM continues. Video on YouTube, LinkedIn Post on Habr rus Digest on the PT website Content: 00:29 Spoofing - Windows...

AM Live Vulnerability Management Conference 2022: my impressions and position

Hello everyone! This episode will be about the AM Live Vulnerability Management online conference. I participated in it on May 17th. Alternative video link for Russia: The event lasted 2 hours. Repeating everything that has been said is difficult and makes little sense. Those who want can watch t...

Study Vulnerability Assessment in Tenable University for free

Not so long ago, Tenable presented renewed online training platform - Tenable University. It is publicly available even for non-customers, for example, for Nessus Home users. However, not all courses are available in this case. I decided to check it out, registering as non-customer. Logged in...

Programmers are also people who also make mistakes

It's the first part of our talk with Daniil Svetlov at his radio show "Safe Environment" or "Safe Wednesday" - kind of wordplay in Russian recorded 29.03.2017. We were discussing why Software Vulnerabilities are everyone's problem. Full video in Russian without subtitles is available here. I adde...

March Microsoft Patch Tuesday

March Microsoft Patch Tuesday. 77 CVEs, 20 of which were added during the month. 7 vulnerabilities with signs of exploitation in the wild: RCE - Windows Fast FAT File System Driver CVE-2025-24985 RCE - Windows NTFS CVE-2025-24993 SFB - Microsoft Management Console CVE-2025-26633 EoP - Windows Win...

September episode of “In The Trend of VM”: 7 CVEs, fake reCAPTCHA, lebanese pagers, VM and IT annual bonuses

September episode of "In The Trend of VM": 7 CVEs, fake reCAPTCHA, lebanese pagers, VM and IT annual bonuses. Starting this month, we decided to slightly expand the topics of the videos and increase their duration. I cover not only the trending vulnerabilities of September, but also social...

Add new features to Notepad++ using Python scripts: keyboard shortcut to insert current time

I have to say, I spend a lot of time daily in Notepad++ text editor for Windows. I keep my “logbook” there. I record what I am doing now and what needs to be done. This allows me not to keep everything in my head and switch the context more efficiently. I can recommend this to everyone. And it is...

About Remote Code Execution – Windows Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) (CVE-2024-49112)

About Remote Code Execution - Windows Lightweight Directory Access Protocol LDAP CVE-2024-49112. The vulnerability is from the December Microsoft Patch Tuesday. Three weeks later, on January 1, researchers from SafeBreach released a write-up on this vulnerability, labeled as LDAPNightmare , and a...

About Authentication Bypass – PAN-OS (CVE-2024-0012) vulnerability

About Authentication Bypass - PAN-OS CVE-2024-0012 vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker with network access to the Palo Alto device web management interface could gain PAN-OS administrator privileges to perform administrative actions, tamper with the configuration, or exploit other...

About Cross Site Scripting – Roundcube Webmail (CVE-2024-37383) vulnerability

About Cross Site Scripting - Roundcube Webmail CVE-2024-37383 vulnerability. Roundcube is a web-based email client with functionality comparable to desktop email clients such as Outlook Express or Mozilla Thunderbird. The vulnerability is caused by an error in the processing of SVG elements in th...

Vulnerability Management vendors and massive Malware attacks (following the Bad Rabbit)

After the latest Bad Rabbit ransomware attack all Top VM vendors Qualys, Tenable, Rapid7 wrote blog posts on this topic on the same day. Two days later Tripwire also published own review. Why do they care? They do not make antiviruses, endpoint protection or firewalls - the common tools against...

About Remote Code Execution & Arbitrary File Reading – Apache HTTP Server (CVE-2024-38475) vulnerability

About Remote Code Execution & Arbitrary File Reading - Apache HTTP Server CVE-2024-38475 vulnerability. Improper escaping of output in modrewrite module leads to remote code execution or arbitrary file reading. Successful exploitation does not require authentication. Apache HTTP Server 2.4.60,...

About Remote Code Execution – Kubernetes (CVE-2025-1974) vulnerability

About Remote Code Execution - Kubernetes CVE-2025-1974 vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker with access to the pod network can achieve arbitrary code execution in the context of the ingress-nginx controller. This can lead to disclosure of Secrets accessible to the controller. In the default...

The severity of the Elevation of Privilege – Microsoft Streaming Service (CVE-2024-30090) vulnerability has increased

The severity of the Elevation of Privilege - Microsoft Streaming Service CVE-2024-30090 vulnerability has increased. The vulnerability was fixed as part of the June Microsoft Patch Tuesday. At that time, no one highlighted this vulnerability. The vulnerability was discovered by a researcher with...

April Microsoft Patch Tuesday

April Microsoft Patch Tuesday. A total of 167 vulnerabilities, about twice as many as in March. There is one vulnerability already being exploited in the wild: 🔻 Spoofing - Microsoft SharePoint Server CVE-2026-32201. ZDI experts say "Spoofing bugs in SharePoint often manifest as cross-site...

About Remote Code Execution – 7-Zip (BDU:2025-01793) vulnerability

About Remote Code Execution - 7-Zip BDU:2025-01793 vulnerability. It's about the fact that files unpacked using 7-Zip don't get the Mark-of-the-Web. As a result, Windows security mechanisms don't block the execution of the unpacked malware. If you remember, there was a similar vulnerability in...

About Elevation of Privilege – Windows Kernel Streaming WOW Thunk Service Driver (CVE-2024-38144) vulnerability

About Elevation of Privilege - Windows Kernel Streaming WOW Thunk Service Driver CVE-2024-38144 vulnerability. The vulnerability is from the August Microsoft Patch Tuesday. It wasn't highlighted in reviews; all we knew was that a local attacker could gain SYSTEM privileges. Three and a half month...

IT Security in The New Pope

Lol, IT Security is everywhere. Even in the first episode of "The New Pope" TV series the sequel of "The Young Pope", 2016 some monks change credentials in the Vatican's IT systems under cover of night. This happened after, well, some unexpected changes in the corporate culture and organizational...

Vulnerability Management for Network Perimeter

Network Perimeter is like a door to your organization. It is accessible to everyone and vulnerability exploitation does not require any human interactions, unlike, for example, phishing attacks. Potential attacker can automate most of his actions searching for an easy target. It's important not t...

About Elevation of Privilege - Desktop Window Manager (CVE-2026-21519) vulnerability

About Elevation of Privilege - Desktop Window Manager CVE-2026-21519 vulnerability. The vulnerability is from the February Microsoft Patch Tuesday. Desktop Window Manager is a compositing window manager included in Windows starting with Windows Vista. A Type Confusion error CWE-843 in Desktop...

About Elevation of Privilege – Windows Hyper-V NT Kernel Integration VSP (CVE-2025-21333, CVE-2025-21334, CVE-2025-21335) vulnerability

About Elevation of Privilege - Windows Hyper-V NT Kernel Integration VSP CVE-2025-21333, CVE-2025-21334, CVE-2025-21335 vulnerability. These three vulnerabilities were disclosed as part of Microsoft's January Patch Tuesday and share the same description. They were found in a component used for...

CISO Forum 2022: the first major Russian security conference in the New Reality

Hello everyone! After a two-year break, I took part in Moscow CISO Forum 2022 with a small talk "Malicious open source: the cost of using someone elses code". Alternative video link for Russia: CISO Forum is the first major Russian conference since the beginning of The New Reality of Information...

Asset Inventory for Network Perimeter: from Declarations to Active Scanning

In the previous post, I shared some of my thoughts about the good Asset Inventory system. Of course, for me as a Security Specialist, it would be great if IT will provide such magical system. But such an ideal situation is rarely possible. So now let's see how to build an Asset Inventory system...

June Linux Patch Wednesday

JuneLinux Patch Wednesday. This time, there are 598 vulnerabilities, almost half as many as in May. Of these, 355 are in the Linux Kernel. There are signs of exploitation in the wild for 3 vulnerabilities CISA KEV. SFB - Chromium CVE-2025-2783 MemCor - Chromium CVE-2025-5419 CodeInj - Hibernate...

About Remote Code Execution – Microsoft Configuration Manager (CVE-2024-43468) vulnerability

About Remote Code Execution - Microsoft Configuration Manager CVE-2024-43468 vulnerability. This vulnerability is from the October 2024 MSPT. Microsoft Configuration Manager ConfigMgr is used to manage large groups of computers, providing remote control, patch management, software distribution,...

January Linux Patch Wednesday

JanuaryLinux Patch Wednesday. Out of 424 total vulnerabilities, 271 are in the Linux Kernel. None show signs of exploitation in the wild, but 9 have public exploits. RCE - Apache Tomcat CVE-2024-56337. Based on the description, the vulnerability affects "case-insensitive file systems" like Window...

About Spoofing – Windows NTLM (CVE-2025-24054) vulnerability

About Spoofing - Windows NTLM CVE-2025-24054 vulnerability. It was patched in the March Microsoft Patch Tuesday. VM vendors didn't mention this vulnerability in their reviews; it was only known to be exploited via user interaction with a malicious file. A month later, on April 16, Check Point...

New episode “In The Trend of VM” (#9): 4 trending vulnerabilities of October, scandal at The Linux Foundation, social “attack on the complainer”, “Ford’s method” for motivating IT specialists to fix vulnerabilities

New episode "In The Trend of VM" 9: 4 trending vulnerabilities of October, scandal at The Linux Foundation, social "attack on the complainer", "Ford's method" for motivating IT specialists to fix vulnerabilities. The competition for the best question on the topic of VM continues. Video on YouTube...

About Remote Code Execution – WinRAR (CVE-2025-6218, CVE-2025-8088) vulnerabilities

About Remote Code Execution - WinRAR CVE-2025-6218, CVE-2025-8088 vulnerabilities. A crafted file path inside an archive may cause the extraction process to move into unintended directories including the Startup directories , which can result in archive extraction leading to the execution of...

About Spoofing – Windows File Explorer (CVE-2025-24071) vulnerability

About Spoofing - Windows File Explorer CVE-2025-24071 vulnerability. The vulnerability is from the March Microsoft Patch Tuesday. The VM vendors didn't highlight it in their reviews. A week later, on March 18, researcher 0x6rss published a write-up and a PoC exploit. According to him, the...

February Linux Patch Wednesday

FebruaryLinux Patch Wednesday. There are 561 vulnerabilities in total. 338 in Linux Kernel. Formally, there is one vulnerability with a sign of exploitation in the wild: RCE - 7-Zip CVE-2025-0411. But it is about Windows MoTW and, naturally, is not exploitable on Linux. There are public exploits...

About Authentication Bypass – Hunk Companion WordPress plugin (CVE-2024-11972) vulnerability

About Authentication Bypass - Hunk Companion WordPress plugin CVE-2024-11972 vulnerability. ThemeHunk company develops commercial themes for WordPress CMS. And the Hunk Companion plugin is designed to complement and enhance the functionality of these themes. The plugin has over 10,000...

Veeam B&R RCE vulnerability CVE-2024-40711 is exploited in attacks

Veeam B &R RCE vulnerability CVE-2024-40711is exploited in attacks. On September 24, there were no signs of this vulnerability being exploited in the wild. And on October 10, Sophos X-Ops reported that they had observed a series of attacks exploiting this vulnerability over the course of a month...

June "In the Trend of VM" (#28): Linux kernel, Microsoft Defender, and Palo Alto Networks device vulnerabilities

June "In the Trend of VM" 28: Linux kernel, Microsoft Defender, and Palo Alto Networks device vulnerabilities. Presenting the traditional monthly roundup of trending vulnerabilities according to Positive Technologies. In the previous May edition, we covered four vulnerabilities. This time, there...

About Remote Code Execution – Microsoft SharePoint “ToolShell” (CVE-2025-49704) vulnerability

About Remote Code Execution - Microsoft SharePoint "ToolShell" CVE-2025-49704 vulnerability. This vulnerability is from the Microsoft's July Patch Tuesday. SharePoint is a web application developed by Microsoft for corporate intranet portals, document management, and collaborative work...

About Remote Code Execution – SAP NetWeaver (CVE-2025-31324, CVE-2025-42999) vulnerability

About Remote Code Execution - SAP NetWeaver CVE-2025-31324, CVE-2025-42999 vulnerability. SAP NetWeaver is the core SAP platform for running applications and integrating systems. Vulnerabilities were found in its Visual Composer component - a web tool for business app modeling. A lack of...

The first Zbrunk dashboard and other news

The long New Year holiday season in Russia was not in vain. I had time to work on Zbrunk. As you can see, I made my first dashboard and added other features. No more timestamps in code I added functions to get Unix timestamps from lines in human-readable time format, e.g. "2019.12.10 13:00:00"...