Pierluigi Paganini
February 05, 2022
US CISA ordered federal agencies to patch their systems against actively exploited CVE-2022-21882Â Windows flaw. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has ordered federal agencies to address their systems against an actively exploited Windows vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-21882. “CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence that threat […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 02, 2022
Antivirus firm ESET addressed a local privilege escalation vulnerability, tracked CVE-2021-37852, impacting its Windows clients. Antivirus firm ESET released security patches to address a high severity local privilege escalation vulnerability, tracked CVE-2021-37852, impacting its Windows clients. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to misuse the AMSI scanning feature to elevate privileges in specific scenarios. “According […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 21, 2021
Microsoft warns of a couple of Active Directory flaws fixed with the November 2021 Patch Tuesday updates that could allow takeover of Windows domains. Microsoft released an alert on a couple of Active Directory vulnerabilities, that have been fixed with the November 2021 Patch Tuesday security updates, that could allow threat actors to takeover Windows domains. The flaws, tracked […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 23, 2021
Vxers are already attempting to use the proof-of-concept exploit code targeting a new Microsoft Windows Installer zero-day publicly disclosed on Sunday. Malware authors are already attempting to use the proof-of-concept exploit code targeting a new Microsoft Windows Installer zero-day publicly disclosed on Sunday. The security researcher Abdelhamid Naceri has publicly disclosed the exploit for a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 13, 2021
A Chinese-speaking hacking group exploited a Windows zero-day vulnerability in a wave of attacks on defense and IT businesses. A Chinese-speaking hacking group exploited a zero-day vulnerability in the Windows Win32k kernel driver to deploy a new remote access trojan (RAT), tracked as MysterySnail. The attacks were conducted between late August and early September 2021 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 16, 2021
Microsoft revealed that multiple threat actors are exploiting the recently patched Windows MSHTML remote code execution security flaw (CVE-2021-40444). Microsoft warns of multiple threat actors, including ransomware operators, that are exploiting the recently patched Windows MSHTML remote code execution security flaw (CVE-2021-40444) in attacks against organizations. The IT giant says that threat actors started targeting […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 08, 2021
Microsoft warns of a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer that is actively exploited by threat actors using weaponized Office docs. Microsoft warns of a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2021-40444) in Internet Explorer that is actively exploited by threat actors to hijack vulnerable Windows systems. Microsoft did not share info about the attacks either the nature of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 15, 2021
Experts said that Israeli surveillance firm Candiru, tracked as Sourgum, exploited zero-days to deliver a new Windows spyware. Microsoft and Citizen Lab believe that the secretive Israel-based Israeli surveillance firm Candiru, tracked as Sourgum, used Windows zero-day exploits to deliver a new Windows spyware dubbed DevilsTongue. According to the experts, at least 100 activists, journalists […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 25, 2021
Google Project Zero team disclosed the details of a recently patched remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2021-24093) in Windows Operating system. White hat hacker at Google Project Zero disclosed the details of a recently patched Windows vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-24093, that can be exploited for remote code execution in the context of the DirectWrite client. DirectWrite […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 18, 2021
PaloAlto Network warns of the WatchDog botnet that uses exploits to take over Windows and Linux servers and mine cryptocurrency. Security researchers at Palo Alto Networks uncovered a cryptojacking botnet, tracked as WatchDog, that is targeting Windows and Linux systems. WatchDog is one of the largest and longest-lasting Monero cryptojacking operations uncovered by security experts, […]
