CVE-2022-22047

On August 8, 2023, Microsoft finally released a kernel patch for a class of vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft Windows since 2015. The vulnerabilities lead to elevation of privilege (EoP), which allows an account with user rights to gain SYSTEM privileges on a vulnerable host. The root cause of this attack surface, according to a 2015 blog, is the ability of a normal user account to replace the original C:\ drive with a fake one by placing a symlink for the system drives in the device map ...

IT threat evolution in Q3 2022 IT threat evolution in Q3 2022. Non-mobile statistics IT threat evolution in Q3 2022. Mobile statistics These statistics are based on detection verdicts of Kaspersky products and services received from users who consented to providing statistical data. Quarterly figures According to Kaspersky Security Network, in Q3 2022: Kaspersky solutions blocked 956,074,958 attacks from online resources across the globe. Web Anti-Virus recognized 251,288,987...

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Microsoft has published an analysis of a Europe-based "private-sector offensive actor" with a view to helping its customers spot signs of attacks by money-hungry gangsters. Dubbed Knotweed by Microsoft's Threat Intelligence Center and Security Response Center, the private sector targeting crew has made use of multiple Windows and Adobe zero-day exploits in attacks against European and Central American customers. The group itself is, according to Microsoft, an Austria-based PSOA. While the outfit...

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Patch Tuesday Despite worries that Patch Tuesday may not be as exciting now that Microsoft's Windows Autopatch is live — with a slew of caveats — the second Tuesday of this month arrived with 84 security fixes, including 4 critical bugs and one that's under active exploit.  Let's start with the one that miscreants have already found and exploited. CVE-2022-22047 is an elevation of privilege vuln in Windows' Client Server Runtime Subsystem (CSRSS). Microsoft deemed it an "important" secu...