Pierluigi Paganini
November 17, 2020
In May 2019, Microsoft disclosed the BlueKeep vulnerability, more than a year later over 245,000 Windows systems still remain unpatched. Over a year ago Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for May 2019 addressed nearly 80 vulnerabilities, including the BlueKeep flaw. The issue is a remote code execution flaw in Remote Desktop Services (RDS) that can be exploited by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 11, 2019
The Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) warns businesses and netizens of Emotet and BlueKeep attacks in the wild. The ACSC is warning organizations and people of a wave of cyberattacks exploiting the Windows BlueKeep vulnerability to deliver crypto-currency miners. “The Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), with its state and territory partners, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 08, 2019
Microsoft is warning once again of more BlueKeep attacks that could deliver disruptive payloads and urges organizations to patch their systems. Recently, researchers warned of the first mass-hacking campaign exploiting the BlueKeep exploit, the attack aimed at installing a cryptocurrency miner on the infected systems. The popular expert Kevin Beaumont observed some of its EternalPot RDP honeypots crashing after being […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 03, 2019
Experts have spotted the first mass-hacking campaign exploiting the BlueKeep exploit, crooks leverage the exploit to install a cryptocurrency miner. Security researchers have spotted the first mass-hacking campaign exploiting the BlueKeep exploit, the attack aims at installing a cryptocurrency miner on the infected systems. In May, Microsoft warned users to update their systems to address […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 07, 2019
Maintainers of the open-source Metasploit penetration testing framework have added a public exploit module for the BlueKeep Windows flaw. There is a surprise for Metasploit users, maintainers of the open-source penetration testing framework have added a public exploit module for the BlueKeep Windows flaw. The BlueKeep vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-0708, impacts the Windows Remote Desktop Services (RDS) and was addressed by Microsoft […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 18, 2019
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) of the U.S. DHS on Monday issued an alert for the BlueKeep Windows flaw (CVE-2019-0708). After Microsoft and the US NSA, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) of the U.S. DHS on Monday issued an alert for the BlueKeep Windows flaw (CVE-2019-0708). Experts at the CISA Agency successfully […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 05, 2019
The National Security Agency (NSA) is urging Windows users and administrators to install security updates to address BlueKeep flaw (aka CVE-2019-0708). Last week Microsoft issued a second security advisory to warn users of older Windows OS versions to update their systems in order to patch the remote code execution vulnerability dubbed BlueKeep. Now the National Security […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 05, 2019
A security expert has developed a Metasploit module to exploit the critical BlueKeep vulnerability and get remote code execution. The security researcher Zǝɹosum0x0 has developed a module for the popular Metasploit penetration testing framework to exploit the critical BlueKeep flaw. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-0708, impacts the Windows Remote Desktop Services (RDS) and was addressed by Microsoft with May […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 28, 2019
Roughly one million devices are vulnerable to attacks exploiting the BlueKeep Windows vulnerability and hackers are ready to hit them. Yesterday I reported the discovery made by experts at GreyNoise that detected scans for systems vulnerable to the BlueKeep (CVE-2019-0708) vulnerability. The scans were first detected on May 25, 2019, experts explained that a single […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 28, 2019
Several products made by Siemens Healthineers are affected by a recently patched Windows BlueKeep vulnerability (CVE-2019-0708). The BlueKeep issue is a remote code execution vulnerability in Remote Desktop Services (RDS) that it can be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker by connecting to the targeted system via the RDP and sending specially crafted requests. As explained by […]
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