Security heads-up for cyber defenders! Microsoft has recently fixed a critical elevation of privilege vulnerability (CVE-2023-23397) affecting Microsoft Outlook for Windows that allows adversaries to dump hash passwords from targeted instances. Notably, the flaw has been exploited in the wild as a zero-day since April 2022, being utilized in cyber-attacks against the government, military, and […]
An increasing number of Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) security flaws uncovered in the last couple of years give the green light to offensive forces to exploit them. In 2022, the infamous in-the-wild MoonBounce malware caused a massive stir in the cyber threat arena distributed via the UEFI bootkit. Another malware of such kind, called […]
Threat actors are constantly enriching their offensive toolkits while experimenting with new sophisticated malware variants to expand the scope of attacks. Cyber defenders have observed a new Mirai botnet variant called V3G4 come into the spotlight in the cyber threat landscape. The novel malware variant has been leveraged in multiple adversary campaigns threatening targeted users […]
Stay alert! Threat actors once again set eyes on Microsoft Windows Exchange servers, attempting to compromise them by exploiting infamous ProxyShell vulnerabilities. Cybersecurity researchers have observed a new evasive malicious campaign dubbed “ProxyShellMiner” that exploits two Microsoft Exchange ProxyShell flaws tracked as CVE-2021-34473 and CVE-2021-34523 to deliver cryptocurrency miners. Detect ProxyShellMiner Attacks Exploiting Microsoft Exchange […]
Stay alert! Security researchers have discovered a notorious vulnerability posing a serious threat to users of a popular password manager KeePass. A security flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-24055, might affect KeePass version 2.5x, potentially allowing attackers to obtain stored passwords in cleartext. CVE-2023-24055 Detection With proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit available, and in view that KeePass is one […]
Another day, another critical RCE making rounds in the cyberthreat arena. This time security practitioners are urged to patch ASAP against a critical remote code execution bug (CVE-2022-47966) affecting multiple Zoho ManageEngine products. Since the proof of concept (PoC) exploit was publicly released last week, experts have observed a huge spike of in-the-wild attacks leveraging […]
Stay alert! Security researchers are warning the global cyber defender community of a zero-day vulnerability in FortiOS SSL-VPN, which was patched in December 2022. The security flaw tracked as CVE-2022-42475 and resulting in unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) has been exploited in targeted attacks against government agencies and large organizations across the globe. Detect CVE-2022-42475: […]
On December 20, 2022, cybersecurity researchers uncovered a novel exploit method dubbed OWASSRF that involves chaining CVE-2022-41080 and CVE-2022-41082 vulnerabilities to gain RCE through privilege escalation via Outlook Web Access (OWA). OWASSRF is capable of bypassing ProxyNotShell mitigations. Cyber defenders highlight that these ongoing attacks pose a threat to an increasing number of Microsoft Exchange […]
Security experts from Qualys’ Threat Research Unit warn of a novel vulnerability (CVE-2022-3328) in Snapd, a popular software management tool for Linux, that might be exploited for local privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution. The security issue in the spotlight can be chained with older vulnerabilities revealed in multipathd (CVE-2022-41973 & CVE-2022-41974) to escalate privileges […]
Due to a constantly evolving number of vulnerabilities affecting open-source software products, proactive detection of vulnerability exploitation remains one of the most common security use cases according to the latest SOC Prime’s Detection as Code Innovation report. At the turn of November 2022, a couple of new vulnerabilities in the OpenSSL software library identified as […]