July is another bumper month for Microsoft as they ship fixes for 117 security vulnerabilities, 13 of them rated as critical and at least 4 are currently under active attack by cyber criminals. The actively exploited vulnerabilities patched this month are: CVE-2021-34527 – Windows Print Spooler RCE Vulnerability – aka PrintNightmare It’s third time lucky […]
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Microsoft has released an emergency patch that addresses the remote code execution vulnerability in the Windows Print Spooler, known as the PrintNightmare. According to Microsoft in their security advisory: A remote code execution vulnerability exists when the Windows Print Spooler service improperly performs privileged file operations. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run
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A new report from Microsoft’s security research team details how the Netgear DGN-2200 broadband router can be compromised remotely, allowing attackers access to the internal network. Microsoft’s 365 Defender Research Team has published a detailed report that explains the flaws they discovered in the firmware of the Netgear DGN-2200v1 ADSL router, that enables a remote
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Code demonstrating how to exploit an 0day vulnerability in the Windows Print Spooler was accidentally published on GitHub this week. This remote code execution vulnerability can be exploited to take control of a fully patched Windows Domain Controller. In the June 2021 Patch bundle, Microsoft delivered a fix for CVE-2021-1675, an elevation of privilege and
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iPhone users should beware after a bug is disclosed that can disable the WiFi system simply by connecting to a hotspot with a specially crafted name. The bug in iOS results from a poorly sanitised input string (Improper Input Validation) and in this case it was a failure to remove escape sequences from the input.
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Google is rolling out a new version of their Chrome web browser that fixes a remote code execution vulnerability that is under attack in the wild – the seventh zero day in Chrome so far this year. The new version of Chrome (91.0.4472.114) on Linux, Windows, and Mac resolves four high severity vulnerabilities including CVE-2021-30554
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Microsoft has warned that Kubernetes clusters are being targeted in a cryptomining attack while Palo Alto Networks has identified the first malware that targets Windows Containers – in order to compromise the Kubernetes clusters that host them. Cryptomining on Kubernetes Kubeflow is a popular framework for deploying Machine Learning workloads in a Kubernetes environment. Microsoft
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The June security updates include 7 zero-day exploits fixed in Microsoft code, 5 high-severity bugs in Intel BIOS firmware and Security Library, and 21 critical vulnerabilities fixed in Adobe products. Microsoft Updates The June 2021 security updates from Microsoft resolves 7 zero-day vulnerabilities- six of them known to be exploited in the wild – and
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise has released a patch to fix a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the Windows version of their System Insight Manager. The bug in the Federated Search and CMS Configuration (CVE-2020-7200) feature of version 7.6.x of HPE SIM, has a critical CVSS score of 9.8. According to the security advisory from HPE,
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New research into the market for exploits on the Dark Web reveals that 61% of exploits sold target Microsoft products including Windows OS, Office, RDP and Internet Explorer. The research presented by Trend Micro at the RSA 2021 Conference this week is the result of a year-long study of 600 dark web forums and markets
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