Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Microsoft released major security updates for a total of 75 Windows vulnerabilities, nine of which are rated “Critical,” 66 are rated “Important,” and three zero-days that have been exploited in the wild. The full list can be found in the latest Microsoft Security Update Guide. Here’s what you need to know.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 6, 2022

Delays to patches going live can cause all manner of headaches. Billed as a managed service available to (some) users of Microsoft products, the software giant had this to say about it: The development of Autopatch is a response to the evolving nature of technology. What are the licensing requirements for Windows Autopatch?

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 12, 2023

Multiple big-name technology vendors, including Microsoft, Fortinet and HashiCorp, have announced patches to address a variety of vulnerabilities. Here’s what you need to know. What is the situation? Microsoft Microsoft has released its April 2023 Patch Tuesday security updates, addressing a total of 97 vulnerabilities.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Microsoft fixed 84 vulnerabilities in its October 2022 Patch Tuesday updates. What was fixed. Another publicly disclosed vulnerability that gets a fix is CVE-2022-41043 , a Microsoft Office Information Disclosure vulnerability. What wasn’t fixed. Google patched several vulnerabilities for Android.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 13, 2023

Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday for June 2023 addresses 78 vulnerabilities, a significant increase from last month’s total of 37. While six of the flaws are critical, Microsoft says none are currently being exploited in the wild. “Let’s hope these bugs get fixed before any active exploitation starts.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2022

Microsoft announced a feature called Autopatch that will allow organizations to keep their systems up-to-date starting with Windows Enterprise E3 (July 2022). Microsoft recently announced the implementation of a new feature called Autopatch starting with Windows Enterprise E3 in July 2022 that aims at keeping their systems up-to-date.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 13, 2021

Microsoft prepares for a news conference t in Los Angeles, California. Researchers on Tuesday reported that an unknown attacker hacked one Microsoft Exchange server as a means to install a malicious Monero cryptominer onto other Exchange servers to gain access. Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images).

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 16, 2023

Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday for March 2023 includes patches for more than 70 vulnerabilities, including zero-day flaws in Outlook and in Windows SmartScreen. “Microsoft’s public bulletin doesn’t say exactly what type of file (images? . is being actively exploited.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Pseudonymous authors published more than 150 copycat packages just three days after Sonatype published research around a software supply chain flaw, attempting to exploit the vulnerabilities in the brief window before a patch. Ethical hacker and security researcher Alex Birsan posted a blog on Feb.

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Duo's Security Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2023

But what about devices? What if someone came to your front door and said, “Hi, I’m sick. New OS version and patch releases typically have security fixes to address identified flaws in the software that could lead to threats such as malware, phishing and denial-of-service attacks. Why isn’t verifying user identity alone enough?

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 3, 2023

The vulnerability was reported to the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) with responsible disclosure and was included by Microsoft in their March 2023 Patch Tuesday round. For a full analysis, feel free to ready the blog by the researchers which goes into more detail. A cluster can have thousands of nodes.

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BH Consulting

AUGUST 9, 2022

Researchers from Microsoft identified a phishing campaign that bypasses MFA. Microsoft’s extensive blog has more details. Dark Reading’s report noted the mitigation steps that Microsoft suggests for reinforcing MFA, such as conditional access. Microsoft enables security by default in popular products.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2023

Please vote for Security Affairs ( [link] ) as the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS Vote for me in the sections where is reported Securityaffairs or my name Pierluigi Paganini Please nominate Security Affairs as your favorite blog.

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NopSec

MAY 31, 2023

ManagedEngine ADManager was found vulnerable to yet another command injection vulnerability and Barracuda released a patch to address a remote command execution vulnerability achieved via *.tar Finally, it wouldn’t be a worthy blog post if we didn’t include a nugget from patch Tuesday. tar file manipulation.

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 6, 2023

STRATEGY # 1 – ASSET DISCOVERY & VULNERABILITY IDENTIFICATION You need to know what you are protecting. Cybercrime is on the rise at a startling rate. Vulnerability management is a critical element of information security. Managing vulnerabilities is a cyclical process- you are never done. Extensive lists can be found online.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

on Tuesday, Feb. The company declined to specify how much was paid or what strain of ransomware was responsible for the attack. 2, 2019, this blog reported that the company — which had chosen not to pay the ransom and instead restore everything from backups — was still struggling to bring its systems back online. .”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

In May, Microsoft warned users to update their systems to address the remote code execution vulnerability dubbed BlueKeep , A few days later, the National Security Agency (NSA) also urged Windows users and administrators to install security updates to address BlueKeep flaw (aka CVE-2019-0708). ” reads a blog post published by Hutchins.

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Kali Linux

DECEMBER 5, 2022

New Tools - As always, various new packages added Microsoft Azure Its been a long time coming, but we are very happy to announce that Kali has been added to Microsoft Azure (again - and this time to stay)! Instead, we automatically post blog posts thus these accounts are mostly unmonitored! In Kali 2022.3,

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SecureList

AUGUST 15, 2022

The first wave of attacks, against a limited number of servers in Taiwan and Vietnam, targeted Microsoft Exchange servers, which the threat actor compromised with Samurai, a sophisticated passive backdoor that typically works via ports 80 and 443. The attackers were using this to hide a last-stage Trojan in the file system.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 9, 2019

Microsoft today released software updates to plug almost 80 security holes in its Windows operating systems and related software. Microsoft said an unauthenticated attacker could use the DHCP flaw to seize total, remote control over vulnerable systems simply by sending a specially crafted data packet to a Windows computer.

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McAfee

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Regardless of the origins, you’ve arrived at Advanced Threat Research team’s monthly bug digest – an overview of what we believe to be the most noteworthy vulnerabilities over the last month. What is it? What can I do? I know, use Microsoft IIS! as it does not patch both vulnerabilities. What is it?

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

For this annual review, we have tried to focus on what we consider to be the most interesting trends and developments of the last 12 months. According to Volexity’s telemetry, some of the exploits in use are shared across several actors, besides the one Microsoft designates as HAFNIUM. Exploiting vulnerabilities.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 21, 2019

In a blog post today, Avast said it detected and addressed a breach lasting between May and October 2019 that appeared to target users of its CCleaner application, a popular Microsoft Windows cleanup and repair utility. For a breakdown on what you should keep in mind when considering a VPN service, see this post.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 22, 2023

Adam Shostack has a new book, Threats: What Every Engineer Should Learn From Star Wars. Which is exactly what my guest has done in his new book. And Adam’s back with a new book called Threats: What Every Engineer Should Learn From Star Wars. I made you know, it was blogging in 2005. STRIDE provides an easy mnemonic.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 26, 2021

At Black Hat USA 2021, researchers presented how they used their own fuzzer designed for hypervisors to find a critical vulnerability in Microsoft Azure. Robert: When we hear that something is processed or stored in the cloud, we often think we understand what that means. So what's a hypervisor, or virtual machine.

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NopSec

APRIL 26, 2017

This widespread exploitation prompted me to release this blog post that I have been mulling for a while. According to the The Register’s article , last week we started assisting to the widespread exploitation of The Shadow Brokers ’ leaked Windows exploits, compromising thousands of vulnerable hosts over the Internet. Sendmail 8.11.x

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SecureList

JULY 29, 2021

The summaries are based on our threat intelligence research and provide a representative snapshot of what we have published and discussed in greater detail in our private APT reports. These attacks were attributed to Nobelium and APT29 by Microsoft and Volexity respectively. The most remarkable findings.

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