Microsoft has confirmed that two reported zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, 2016, and 2019. The first one, identified as CVE-2022-41040, is a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability, and the second one, identified as CVE-2022-41082, allows Remote Code Execution (RCE) when PowerShell is accessible to the attacker. From the note Microsoft added, CVE-2022-41040 can enable an authenticated attacker to remotely trigger CVE-2022-41082. It should...
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Hackers backed by the North Korean government are weaponizing well-known pieces of open source software in an ongoing campaign that has already succeeded in compromising “numerous” organizations in the media, defense and aerospace, and IT services industries, Microsoft said on Thursday. ZINC—Microsoft’s name for a threat actor group also called Lazarus, which is best known for conducting the devastating 2014 compromise of Sony Pictures Entertainment—has been...
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Microsoft confirmed it is investigating two zero days affecting its Exchange Server software late Thursday following a report from Vietnamese cybersecurity firm GTSC that the vulnerabilities are being exploited in the wild. GTSC said it discovered the issues in August while doing security incident monitoring and response, then reported the issue to Microsoft’s Zero Day Initiative, which confirmed the bugs. The attacks GTSC reported chain together the two vulnerabilities. ...
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Sophos warned today that a critical code injection security vulnerability in the company’s Firewall product is being exploited in the wild. “Sophos has observed this vulnerability being used to target a small set of specific organizations, primarily in the South Asia region,” the security software and hardware vendor warned. “We have informed each of these organizations directly. Sophos will provide further details as we continue...
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Executive Summary SentinelLabs researchers uncovered a never-before-seen advanced threat actor we’ve dubbed ‘Metador’. Metador primarily targets telecommunications, internet service providers, and universities in several countries in the Middle East and Africa. The operators are highly aware of operations security, managing carefully segmented infrastructure per victim, and quickly deploying intricate countermeasures in the presence of security solutions. Metador’s attack chains are designed to bypass native security...
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