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Microsoft
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 …

Microsoft support
Zero-day bug exploited by attackers via macro-less Office documents (CVE-2022-30190)

A newly numbered Windows zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2022-30190) is being exploited in the wild via specially crafted Office documents (without macros), security researchers …

alert
Attackers are attempting to exploit critical F5 BIG-IP RCE

Researchers have developed PoC exploits for CVE-2022-1388, a critical remote code execution bug affecting F5 BIG-IP multi-purpose networking devices/modules. Simultaneously, …

VMware
Attackers are exploiting VMware RCE to deliver malware (CVE-2022-22954)

Cyber crooks have begun exploiting CVE-2022-22954, a RCE vulnerability in VMware Workspace ONE Access and Identity Manager, to deliver cryptominers onto vulnerable systems. …

Spring
CISA adds Spring4Shell to list of exploited vulnerabilities

It’s been almost a week since the Spring4Shell vulnerability (CVE-2022-22965) came to light and since the Spring development team fixed it in new versions of the Spring …

Log4j
Log4Shell exploitation: Which applications may be targeted next?

Spring4Shell (CVE-2022-22965) has dominated the information security news these last six days, but Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228) continues to demand attention and action from …

bomb
Vulnerabilities and cyberattacks that marked the year 2021

Rapid7 announced the release of a report examining the 50 most notable security vulnerabilities and high-impact cyberattacks in 2021. On any given day, security professionals …

Spring
Spring4Shell: New info and fixes (CVE-2022-22965)

In this video for Help Net Security, Ax Sharma, Senior Security Researcher at Sonatype, talks about the latest developments regarding Spring4Shell, the unauthenticated RCE …

Spring
Spring4Shell: No need to panic, but mitigations are advised

Security teams around the world got another shock on Thursday when news of disclosure of a PoC for an unauthenticated RCE zero-day vulnerability in Spring Core, a massively …

attacks
Attackers are exploiting recently patched RCE in Sophos Firewall (CVE-2022-1040)

A critical vulnerability (CVE-2022-1040) in Sophos Firewall is being exploited in the wild to target “a small set of specific organizations primarily in the South Asia …

malware
New cyberespionage campaign targeting ISPs, research entities

ESET Research discovered a still-ongoing cyberespionage campaign using a previously undocumented Korplug variant by the Mustang Panda APT group. The current campaign exploits …

zero
The not so scary truth about zero-day exploits

We don’t know what we don’t know; this is the quintessential problem plaguing security teams and the primary reason that zero-day exploits can cause such damage. …

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