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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We found a new wormable malware we’ve named BlackSquid targeting web servers, network and removable drives using evasion, anti-virtualization, anti-debugging, and anti-sandboxing techniques to drop a Monero miner.
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Following Apple’s March release of patches, Trend Micro reported two of the discovered vulnerabilities. Left unpatched, these macOS flaws can be used by attackers in escalating admin privileges to access restricted information or open systems to attacks.
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We analyzed another Mirai variant called “Miori,” which is being spread through a Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in the PHP framework, ThinkPHP. Aside from Miori, several known Mirai variants like IZ1H9 and APEP were also spotted using the same RCE exploit for their arrival method. The aforementioned variants all use factory default credentials via Telnet to brute force their way in and spread to other devices.
Read More This month’s round of updates, which fixes 63 bugs, includes a patch for a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2018-8589) that is already being used in malicious attacks.
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