Customers of Monzo and Revolut banks are being targeted in a phishing campaign which aims to steal their account credentials. The attack starts with a fake SMS that claims to be from the bank. At the start of 2022, 27% of UK adults had an account with one of the digital only challenger banks, and […]
Monzo and Revolut customers targeted in phishing campaign Read More »
Microsoft has announced several steps they are taking to improve the default security of Office document and Windows systems by protecting them against malicious macros and LOL-bins attacks. Microsoft Office to block macros for all Internet documents Microsoft is changing the default behaviour of Office applications that can contain VBA macros. Currently when a
Microsoft upgrades security of Office and Windows Read More »
Adobe has released a patch for a critical Remote Code Execution vulnerability that affects the Magento and Adobe Commerce eCommerce platforms. The CVSS 9.8 critical rated vulnerability (CVE-2022-24086) has, according to Adobe, been observed to be exploited in the wild and threat actors can use it to achieve arbitrary code execution on the target e-commerce
Critical Magento patch for Remote Code Exploit Read More »
It is rare to see vulnerabilities with the maximum CVSS score of 10 out of 10, but SAP’s February security patch bundle fixes four of them along with details of a serious vulnerability named ICMAD. Three of the critical vulnerabilities in SAPs February Security Advisory are fixing Log4j related issues. The fourth critical vulnerability (CVE-2022-22536)
SAP releases critical code patches Read More »
The second Tuesday of February brings the monthly security updates from Microsoft. Microsoft Security Updates – February 2022 February is a relatively modest month for Microsoft with just 51 security patches released. Even though none of this month’s vulnerabilities are rated as Critical, there is a trio of remote code execution vulnerabilities. Historically February is
February Security Updates Read More »
A new phishing campaign is using CSV files to deliver malware to unsuspecting users who mistakenly think that plain text CSV files are safe to open in Excel. Comma Separated Variable (CSV) files are produced by many applications as a kind of universally compatible report format as they consist of simple text files which contain
How malicious CSV files can deliver malware Read More »
A serious remote code execution vulnerability has been discovered in the Samba file sharing software. This bug allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code as root on an affected server. With a CVSS score of 9.9, this vulnerability affects Samba’s default configurations. Samba is a popular freeware utility that supports the SMB (Server Message
Samba RCE vulnerability Read More »
Apple has released iOS 15.3 and Monterey 12.2 which resolve a bundle of security vulnerabilities including a pair of Zero-day exploits iOS patches iOS 15.3 and iPadOS 15.3 (released on 26th January 2022) contain fixes for a total of 10 security vulnerabilities including CVE-2022-22587. Apple advises that they are ‘aware of a report that this issue
Apple patches Zero day iPhone and Mac exploits Read More »
A 12 year old bug has been discovered in the Linux pkexec utility which allows any unprivileged user to gain full root privileges on a vulnerable host. The new report from security researchers at Qualys explains how the vulnerability can be exploited. In summary the vulnerability, dubbed PwnKit, allows any unprivileged user to gain full
PwnKit Vulnerability affects every major Linux distro Read More »
Starting in March 2022, Google Chrome will start supporting the new Private Network Access standard which will help protect local network devices from malicious internet traffic. Private Network Access, or PNA, will prevent malicious websites from using the victim’s browser as a proxy to relay cross-site request forgery attempts to devices on the user’s local
Chrome leads the way with security changes Read More »
SecureTeam Ltd,
Kemp House, 152 City Road,
London,
EC1V 2NX
10257784
GB 249480968
SecureTeam Ltd, Kemp House, 152 City Road,
London, EC1V 2NX
Mon – Fri: 09:00 – 17:00
Company Number: 10257784
VAT Registration No: GB 249480968
© SecureTeam 2023. All rights reserved.