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Critical Atlassian Confluence Vulnerability Exploited

Atlassian are warning customers of a critical remote code execution vulnerability in their Confluence collaboration server which affects on-premises installations of Confluence Server and Data Center editions. Tracked as CVE-2022-26134, the flaw was identified by Volexity at the start of this month and it impacts Confluence Server 7.18.0 and Confluence Server and Data Center 7.4.0. […]

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New Shellcode Malware SVCReady in Microsoft Office

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New malware known as SVCReady uses shellcode in the properties of Microsoft Office documents to infect its target. This is yet another new form of attack that affects Microsoft Office, disguising malicious code in a seemingly safe Office document format. The SVCReady family of malware has been reported by the HP threat research blog as

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Android Patches 5 Critical Vulnerabilities

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An update for devices running Android versions 10, 11 and 12 has been released as two security patch levels: 2022-06-01 and 2022-06-05. Across these updates over 40 vulnerabilities have been identified and patched, 5 of which have been given a severity rating of ‘Critical’ by the Android security team. This separation into two security patch

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Microsoft Office Zero-Day attack identified

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A new vulnerability has been discovered that can allow a malicious document to run arbitrary code on a Windows computer. Although the obvious attack vector is MS Office documents, Microsoft is describing this as a Windows Operating System vulnerability according to CVE-2022-30190. A Word Document was found to be able to abuse the Microsoft Windows

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Microsoft warns of Kerberos Relay attacks

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Microsoft has issued several updates to help Systems Admins protect their networks against Kerberos Relay attacks. Microsoft have said no security patch will be provided to mitigate this attack vector, so config changes must be made to default Windows Domain Controller on premise installations. Microsoft explains the vulnerability in a recent blog post: Detecting and

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Google Chrome security update

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Google has issued a new version of the Chrome browser to resolve a number of serious security issues. Several vulnerabilities have been discovered and fixed in the latest release of Google Chrome, including one rated as Critical which could allow arbitrary code execution on the victim’s system. CVE-2022-1853 is a use after free vulnerability in

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Apple patches zero-day vulnerability

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Apple have released eight security updates this week for a range of devices. Four of these updates include fixes for a zero-day vulnerability in AppleAVD. This vulnerability is said to have been actively exploited before this update was released, and affected Apple Watch, Apple TV, Macs, iPhones and iPads. Identified as CVE-2022-22675 by an anonymous

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HTML Phishing on the rise

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The popularity of phishing emails using HTML attachments started spiking in 2019, but have continued to be a significant issue in 2022. In just the first 4 months of this year, cybersecurity provider Kaspersky detected almost 2 million malicious emails using HTML attachments, making it one of the most popular forms of attachment used in

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Microsoft patches critical zero-day

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Critical remote code execution and elevation of privilege vulnerabilities were among the 75 total vulnerabilities that have been fixed in Microsoft’s May Patch Tuesday this week. These essential patches include fixes for currently exploited zero-day vulnerabilities, one of which is a novel NTLM relay attack, identified as CVE-2022-26925, which affects all versions of Windows. This

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NCSC offers free email security tool

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The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has launched a new email security checker to help organisations protect their email privacy and prevent spoofing. This comes after the publishing of the top 15 most exploited vulnerabilities of 2021, in which 8 of the top 15 involved Microsoft Exchange servers. Figures from the NCSC show that some

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Critical Atlassian Confluence Vulnerability Exploited

New Shellcode Malware SVCReady in Microsoft Office

Android Patches 5 Critical Vulnerabilities

Microsoft Office Zero-Day attack identified

Microsoft warns of Kerberos Relay attacks

Google Chrome security update

Apple patches zero-day vulnerability

HTML Phishing on the rise

Microsoft patches critical zero-day

NCSC offers free email security tool

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