Krebs on Security

JUNE 8, 2021

Microsoft today released another round of security updates for Windows operating systems and supported software, including fixes for six zero-day bugs that malicious hackers already are exploiting in active attacks. – CVE-2021-33739 , an elevation of privilege flaw in the Microsoft Desktop Window Manager.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Microsoft released December 2022 Patch Tuesday security updates that fix 52 vulnerabilities across its products. Microsoft December 2022 Patch Tuesday security updates fixed two zero-day vulnerabilities; one of the new issues addressed this month is listed as publicly known at the time of release, and one is actively exploited. .

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 8, 2023

8, 2023 – DigiCert today announced the expansion of its certificate management platform, DigiCert Trust Lifecycle Manager, to provide full lifecycle support for multiple CAs including Microsoft CA and AWS Private CA, as well as integration with ServiceNow to support existing IT service workflows. Lehi, Utah, Aug.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Iran Crisis Russia-Aligned TAG-70 Targets European Government and Military Mail Servers in New Espionage Campaign U.S. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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AIIM

JULY 1, 2021

The focus needs to be on properly tagging and classifying content as it comes into the organization, not after the fact, which has long been the case in records and content management. The ever increasing petabytes of data required to do business in the modern world of work require utilizing metadata to tag content. Why Metadata?

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2022

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) uncovered a new initial access broker, named Exotic Lily, that is closely affiliated with the Conti ransomware gang. Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) researchers linked a new initial access broker, named Exotic Lily, to the Conti ransomware operation.

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AIIM

AUGUST 10, 2021

For millions of Microsoft 365 users, a substantial portion of the organizational knowledge is created, shared, and stored in SharePoint, Exchange email, or OneDrive. Every aspect of content flow and collaboration – including Microsoft Teams and its information—must be integral to the organization’s approach to information governance.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 11, 2023

US CISA added Microsoft Exchange elevation of privileges bug CVE-2022-41080 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. The first issue, tracked as CVE-2022-41080 , is a Microsoft Exchange server privilege escalation vulnerability. The new exploit chain bypasses Microsoft’s mitigations for ProxyNotShell vulnerabilities.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Adobe and Microsoft each released updates today to tackle critical security weaknesses in their software. Microsoft’s December patch batch is relatively light, addressing more than three dozen vulnerabilities in Windows and related applications.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2023

Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for March 2023 addressed 74 vulnerabilities, including a Windows zero-day exploited in ransomware attacks. The CVE-2023-23397 flaw is a Microsoft Outlook spoofing vulnerability that can lead to an authentication bypass. ” reads the advisory published by Microsoft. ” states Microsoft.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 16, 2023

Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday for March 2023 includes patches for more than 70 vulnerabilities, including zero-day flaws in Outlook and in Windows SmartScreen. “Microsoft’s public bulletin doesn’t say exactly what type of file (images? . Office documents? all of them?)

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 1, 2023

To avoid issues, we need to understand the DMARC record tags in detail. DMARC Record Tags in Detail To understand the DMARC record, we start with an example record and then explore the detailed options for each tag. Tags are separated by semicolons ( ; ) with no extra spaces.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2021

Microsoft, like Google TAG, observed a cyber espionage campaign aimed at vulnerability researchers that attributed to North Korea-linked Zinc APT group. Researchers from Microsoft monitored a cyber espionage campaign aimed at vulnerability researchers and attributed the attacks to North Korea-linked Zinc APT group.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Microsoft’s December 2022 Patch Tuesday includes fixes for over four dozen vulnerabilities, six of them critical – including a zero-day flaw in the SmartScreen security tool, CVE-2022-44698 , that’s being actively exploited. Other Key Updates.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

An unofficial patch for an actively exploited flaw in Microsoft Windows that allows to bypass Mark-of-the-Web (MotW) protections. In order to prevent unauthorized actions, files downloaded from the internet in Windows are tagged with a MotW flag.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Symantec discovered eight potentially unwanted applications (PUAs) into the Microsoft Store that were dropping cryptojacking Coinhive miners. Security experts at Symantec have discovered eight potentially unwanted applications (PUAs) into the Microsoft Store that were dropping cryptojacking Coinhive miners. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2023

Google TAG shared indicators of compromise (IoCs) for both campaigns. The experts pointed out that both campaigns were limited and highly targeted. The threat actors behind the attacks used both zero-day and n-day exploits in their exploits. The exploits were used to install commercial spyware and malicious apps on targets’ devices.

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AIIM

MAY 8, 2023

How ChatGPT Will Reshape Knowledge Management Transform Content into Actionable Information with AI The Next Generation of Information Management Professionals How the World's Largest Companies Deploy Microsoft Purview Records Management + Microsoft Syntex Mission Impossible?

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Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2023

“Once the Microsoft Word file is downloaded and executed/opened by the user, an OLE object is loaded from the RTF, which connects to the IP address 104.234.239[.]26, “This file’s goal is to load the OLE streams into Microsoft Word, to render an iframe tag responsible for the execution of the next stage of malware.”

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Microsoft’s November 2022 Patch Tuesday includes fixes for more than 60 vulnerabilities affecting almost 40 different products, features and roles – including patches for CVE-2022-41040 and CVE-2022-41082 , the ProxyNotShell flaws disclosed last month. Installing it promptly is highly advisable.”

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2024

Admin of the BreachForums hacking forum sentenced to 20 years supervised release Russia-linked Midnight Blizzard APT hacked Microsoft corporate emails VF Corp December data breach impacts 35 million customers China-linked APT UNC3886 exploits VMware zero-day since 2021 Ransomware attacks break records in 2023: the number of victims rose by 128% U.S.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2021

Researchers from Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) reported that North Korea-linked hackers are targeting security researchers via social media. ” reads the post published by Google TAG. The cyberspies used fake Twitter and LinkedIn social media accounts to get in contact with the victims.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2022

SEKOIA researchers started their investigation after the publication of Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG)’s report “ Update on cyber activity in Eastern Europe ” which detailed the activity of nation-state actors against Eastern Europe. org jadlactnato.webredirect[.]org.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 13, 2022

While the price tag of these violations was shocking, the compliance failure was not. According to a SEC release , hefty fines brought against JPMorgan, and its subsidiaries were based on “widespread and longstanding failures by the firm and its employees to maintain and preserve written communications”.

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2022

Microsoft security researchers recently observed web skimming campaigns that used multiple obfuscation techniques to avoid detection. ” reads the analysis published by Microsoft. ” Microsoft also observed attackers masquerading as Google Analytics and Meta Pixel (formerly Facebook Pixel) scripts to avoid raising suspicion.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 9, 2020

Multiple state-sponsored hacking groups are attempting to exploit a vulnerability recently addressed in Microsoft Exchange email servers. Cybersecurity firm Volexity is warning that nation-state actors are attempting to exploit a vulnerability recently addressed in Microsoft Exchange email servers tracked as CVE-2020-0688.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Microsoft released an out-of-band patch to address a Zero-day memory corruption vulnerability in Internet Explorer that has been exploited in attacks in the wild. Microsoft has released an out-of-band patch for an Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability that was exploited in attacks in the wild. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2022

Microsoft March 2022 Patch Tuesday security updates address 89 vulnerabilities in multiple products, including 3 zero-days. The update includes fixes for 7 flaws in MS Exchange and 21 Microsoft Edge vulnerabilities. 14 vulnerabilities have been rated as Critical and 75 are listed as Important in severity.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

North Korea-linked APT group posed as Samsung recruiters is a spear-phishing campaign that targeted South Korean security companies that sell anti-malware solutions, Google TAG researchers reported. Google TAG researchers reported that the same group, tracked as Zinc ,” also targeted security researchers in past campaigns.

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DXC Technology

APRIL 25, 2019

Tagging is a convenient way to organize resources and manage workloads in Microsoft Azure. While it can be a helpful tool, tagging has its limits and special quirks that must be addressed. What is Azure tagging?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Microsoft February 2022 Patch Tuesday security updates addressed 51 flaws in multiple products, including a zero-day bug. It is interesting to note that this month, Microsoft did not address critical vulnerabilities. It is interesting to note that this month, Microsoft did not address critical vulnerabilities.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2023

The CVE-2023-26083 flaw in the Arm Mali GPU driver is chained with other issues to install commercial spyware, as reported by Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) in a recent report. Mandiant researchers first observed this affiliate targeting Veritas issues in the wild on October 22, 2022.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 9, 2023

A surge of critical vulnerabilities and zero-day exploits has made for a very busy week in IT security, affecting a range of tech giants like Atlassian, Cisco, Apple, Arm, Qualcomm and Microsoft. Microsoft released urgent patches for Edge, Teams, and Skype.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2023

Russia-linked APT Gamaredon starts stealing data from victims between 30 and 50 minutes after the initial compromise The source code of the BlackLotus UEFI Bootkit was leaked on GitHub US CISA warns of Rockwell Automation ControlLogix flaws Indexing Over 15 Million WordPress Websites with PWNPress New AVrecon botnet remained under the radar for two (..)

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Troy Hunt

AUGUST 5, 2023

Case in point: read my pain from last night about converting thousands of words of lawyer speak T&Cs from Microsoft Word to HTML. I settled for dumping stuff in a <pre> tag for now and will invest the time in doing it right later on.)

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Microsoft February 2021 Patch Tuesday addresses 56 vulnerabilities, including a flaw that is known to be actively exploited in the wild. Microsoft revealed that one of these flaws is known to be actively exploited in attacks in the wild, while six issues are listed as being publicly known at the time of release.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2022

The security firm is tracking this cluster of malicious activities under the moniker Threat Activity Group 38 aka TAG-38. Most of the compromised devices acted as ShadowPad C2 servers, most of them shared a unique SSL certificate spoofing Microsoft on port 443. ” reads the advisory published by Recorded Future.

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