While none of the vulnerabilities were listed as under active attack at the time of August Patch Tuesday release, a few of the bugs addressed this month fall under the “wormable” category, namely remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in the Remote Desktop Services. This month’s Patch Tuesday also disables the scripting language VBScript by default on Internet Explorer on Windows 7, 8, and 8.1.
Read More Critical patches covered in the release include fixes for Windows DHCP Server, Azure DevOps Server and Team Foundation Server, and .NET Framework, namely assigned as CVE-2019-0785, CVE-2019-1072, and CVE-2019-1113. Elevation of privilege vulnerabilities in Microsoft splwow64 (CVE-2019-0880) and Win32k (CVE-2019-1132), which were reported as being exploited, have also been patched.
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We found a Golang-based spreader being used in a campaign that drops a cryptocurrency miner payload. Trend Micro has been detecting the use of the spreader since May and saw it again in a campaign this month.
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After almost two years of sporadic restricted activity, the ShadowGate campaign has started delivering cryptocurrency miners with a newly upgraded version of the Greenflash Sundown exploit kit. The campaign has been spotted targeting global victims, after operating mainly in Asia. Background of the Greenflash Sundown exploit kit The ShadowGate (also called WordsJS) campaign was identified…
Read More Microsoft’s June Patch Tuesday announced the release of 88 vulnerability patches in this month’s security bulletin, as well as four advisories and one servicing stack update. Four of the critical patches included in the release are fixes for the zero-days SandboxEscaper previously disclosed.
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