A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft SharePoint when the software fails to check the source markup of an application package, aka 'Microsoft SharePoint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2019-0594.
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A phishing campaign, discovered by researchers at Cofense, is draping itself in a Microsoft Office SharePoint theme and successfully bypassing security email gateways (SEGs). In a post on Tuesday, the firm said that this is an example of why it’s not always prudent to share documents via Microsoft’s hugely popular, widely used SharePoint collaboration platform.
The phish is targeting Office 365 users with a legitimate-looking SharePoint document that claims to urgently need an email ...
This month the vendor has patched 74 vulnerabilities, 20 of which are rated Critical.
Posted: 13 Feb, 201922 Min ReadThreat Intelligence SubscribeFollowtwitterfacebooklinkedinMicrosoft Patch Tuesday – February 2019This month the vendor has patched 74 vulnerabilities, 20 of which are rated Critical.As always, customers are advised to follow these security best practices:
Install vendor patches as soon as they are available.
Run all software with the least privileges required while still maintaini...
The U.K. National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) today issued an alert highlighting the risks behind the recently addressed CVE2020-16952 remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint Server.
NCSC, the cybersecurity arm of the UK's GCHQ intelligence service, urges organizations to make sure that all Microsoft SharePoint products in their environments are patched against CVE-2020-16952 to block takeover attempts.
"The NCSC strongly advises that organisations refer ...
Microsoft is warning that an Iranian nation-state actor is now actively exploiting the Zerologon vulnerability (CVE-2020-1472), adding fuel to the fire as the severe flaw continues to plague businesses.
The advanced persistent threat (APT) actor, which Microsoft calls MERCURY (also known as MuddyWater, Static Kitten and Seedworm) has historically targeted government victims in the Middle East to exfiltrate data. Exploiting the bug allows an unauthenticated attacker, with network access ...
Microsoft has released patches for 129 security bugs in its September Patch Tuesday update. These include 23 critical flaws, 105 that are important in severity and one moderate bug. Fortunately, none are publicly known or under active exploitation, Microsoft said.
The most severe issue in the bunch is CVE-2020-16875, according to researchers. This is a memory-corruption problem in Microsoft Exchange that allows remote code-execution (RCE) just by sending an email to a target. Running arbit...
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned of a potential Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that targeted a state-level voter registration and information site in a Private Industry Notification (PIN) released today.
"The FBI received reporting indicating a state-level voter registration and voter information website received anomalous Domain Name System (DNS) server requests consistent with a Pseudo Random Subdomain (PRSD) attack," according to the FBI PIN seen by B...
Hackers breached the United Nations network in July by exploiting a Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability, according to reports. The breach, which appears to be an espionage operation, reportedly gave the hackers access to an estimated 400 GB of sensitive data.
The breach was swept under the rug by the U.N. until this week, when an internal document outlining the hack was leaked by The New Humanitarian, a global news agency focusing on human rights stories. According to the confidential docum...
For an organization accused of being 'all talk, no action', there's not even enough talking – to its own employees
The United Nations’ European headquarters in Geneva and Vienna were hacked last summer, putting thousands of staff records at miscreants' fingertips. Incredibly, the organization decided to cover it up without informing those affected nor the public.
That is the extraordinary claim of The New Humanitarian, which until a few years ago was an official UN publication covering humanitarian crises. Today, it said the UN has confirmed both the hack and the decision not to divulge any details.<...
The FBI Cyber Division issued a flash security alert earlier this month with additional indicators of compromise from recent defacement attacks operated by Iranian threat actors and info on attackers' TTPs to help administrators and users to protect their websites.
The Cybersecurity and Information Security Agency (CISA) also
on the same day to provide cybersecurity best practices on safeguarding websites from cyberattacks that could lead to defacement or data breaches.
FBI's...
For two years, the Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) at Kaspersky has been publishing quarterly summaries of advanced persistent threat (APT) activity. The summaries are based on our threat intelligence research and provide a representative snapshot of what we have published and discussed in greater detail in our private APT reports. They aim to highlight the significant events and findings that we feel people should be aware of.
This is our latest installment, focusing on activiti...
A recently patched, high-severity vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint (CVE-2019-0604) that allows remote code-execution is being increasingly exploited in the wild, according to researchers – possibly by the FIN7 group, among others.
According to the Microsoft’s advisory, the vulnerability (which carries a 7.8 CVSS v.3.0 score) exists because the software fails to check the source markup of an application package – Microsoft issued a patch in March.
The Canadian Cyber Securit...
Hefty load from Microsoft, Adobe, with special guest star Cisco
Patch Tuesday Microsoft and Adobe have teamed up to give users and sysadmins plenty of work to do this week.
The February edition of Patch Tuesday includes more than 70 CVE-listed vulnerabilities from each vendor – yes, each – as well as a critical security fix from Cisco. You should patch them as soon as it is possible.
For Redmond, the February dump covers 77 CVE-listed bugs across Windows, Office, and Edge/IE.
Among the most potentially serious was CVE-2019-0626, a remot...
Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Office, and Windows Server, for which patches have been available for years, continue to be the favorite target for hackers looking to spread malware.
A list posted by US-CERT this week rattles off the 10 most oft-targeted security vulnerabilities during the past three years, and finds that, shock horror, for the most part, keeping up with patching will keep you safe.
Microsoft ranks highly in the list because its software is widely used, and pro...
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