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Over 15 Million Systems Exposed to Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

eSecurity Planet

Researchers at cybersecurity firm Rezilion found more than 15 million instances in which systems are vulnerable to the 896 flaws listed in the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog.

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Patch Tuesday, July 2018 Edition

Krebs on Security

Microsoft and Adobe each issued security updates for their products today. Microsoft’s July patch batch includes 14 updates to fix more than 50 security flaws in Windows and associated software. Microsoft doesn’t make it easy for Windows 10 users to change this setting, but it is possible.

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, February 2023 Edition

Krebs on Security

Microsoft is sending the world a whole bunch of love today, in the form of patches to plug dozens of security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software. Microsoft’s security advisories are somewhat sparse with details about the zero-day bugs. Either way, make sure you test and roll these fixes quickly.”

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CISA adds 8 new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

Security Affairs

The US CISA added eight more flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog that are known to be used in attacks in the wild. The US Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added eight more flaws to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. ” reads the announcement published by CISA.

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North Korea-linked Dark Hotel APT leverages CVE-2018-8373 exploit

Security Affairs

The North Korea-linked Dark Hotel APT group is leveraging the recently patched CVE-2018-8373 vulnerability in the VBScript engine in attacks in the wild. The vulnerability affects Internet Explorer 9, 10 and 11, it was first disclosed last month by Trend Micro and affected all supported versions of Windows.

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12 Types of Vulnerability Scans & When to Run Each

eSecurity Planet

Vulnerability scanning is critically important for identifying security flaws in hardware and software, but vulnerability scanning types are as varied as the IT environments they’re designed to protect. These scanners frequently probe software to map its structure and discover potential attack vectors.

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Buckeye APT group used Equation Group tools prior to ShadowBrokers leak

Security Affairs

In 2010, security vendor FireEye identified the Pirpi Remote Access Trojan (RAT) which exploited a then 0-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer versions 6, 7 and 8. FireEye named the threat group APT3 and described them as “one of the most sophisticated threat groups” being tracked at the time.

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