Patching problems: The “return” of a Windows Themes spoofing vulnerability
Despite two patching attempts, a security issue that may allow attackers to compromise Windows user’s NTLM (authentication) credentials via a malicious Windows themes …
Micropatches: What they are and how they work
In this Help Net Security video, Mitja Kolsek, CEO at Acros Security, discusses micropatches, a solution to a huge security problem. With micropatches, there are no reboots or …
Attackers are leveraging Follina. What can you do?
As the world is waiting for Microsoft to push out a patch for CVE-2022-30190, aka “Follina”, attackers around the world are exploiting the vulnerability in a …
What are the benefits of automated, cloud-native patch management?
Could organizations recoup their share of more than $1 billion per quarter by moving away from legacy solutions to cloud-native patch management and endpoint hardening? A new …
Zoom zero-day flaw allows code execution on victim’s Windows machine
A zero-day vulnerability in Zoom for Windows may be exploited by an attacker to execute arbitrary code on a victim’s computer. The attack doesn’t trigger a …
Micropatches block exploitation of Windows zero-days under attack
While we wait for Microsoft to provide fixes for the two new Windows RCE zero-days that are being exploited in “limited targeted Windows 7 based attacks,” ACROS …
Micropatch simulates workaround for recent zero-day IE flaw, removes negative side effects
ACROS Security has released a micropatch that implements the workaround for a recently revealed actively exploited zero-day RCE flaw affecting Internet Explorer …
BlueKeep RDP flaw: Nearly a million Internet-facing systems are vulnerable
Two weeks have passed since Microsoft released security fixes and mitigation advice to defang exploits taking advantage of CVE-2019-0708 (aka BlueKeep), a wormable …
New infosec products of the week: April 5, 2019
Free cybersecurity threat assessment for midsize and large organizations Cynet unveiled the Cynet Threat Assessment program. The free offering for organizations with 500 or …
0patch releases micropatch for Windows Task Scheduler zero-day
Earlier this week a security researcher that goes by “SandboxEscaper” published details and a PoC exploit for a zero-day local privilege escalation vulnerability …
Abandoned by Microsoft, Equation Editor gets “security-adopted” by micropatch pros
Last week, Microsoft did away with Equation Editor, a tool that has been part of Microsoft Office for over 17 years. The reason behind the move? A remote code execution …
Microsoft offers mitigation advice for DDE attacks scenarios
Microsoft has published a security advisorty containing DDE attack mitigation instructions for both users and admins. What’s a DDE attack? For a while now, attackers …