Pierluigi Paganini
August 10, 2021
Microsoft Azure Sentinel cloud-native SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) platform used the Fusion machine learning model to detect ransomware attack. Microsoft Azure Sentinel cloud-native SIEM is using the Fusion machine learning model to analyze data across enterprise environments and detect the activity associated with potential threats, including ransomware attacks. When a potential ransomware attack […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 29, 2021
Experts disclose details about a critical flaw in Microsoft Hyper-V, tracked as CVE-2021-28476, that can allow executing arbitrary code on it. Researchers Peleg Hadar of SafeBreach and Ophir Harpaz of Guardicore disclose details about a critical flaw in Microsoft Hyper-V, tracked as CVE-2021-28476, that can allow triggering a DoS condition ot executing arbitrary code on it. The flaw resides in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 19, 2021
Security researchers demonstrated how to bypass the Windows Hello facial recognition that is used in Windows 10 as a login mechanism. Security researchers at CyberArk Labs discovered a security bypass vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-34466, affecting the Windows Hello facial authentication process, An attacker could exploit the vulnerability to login systems running the Windows 10 OS. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 09, 2021
Microsoft confirmed that the emergency security updates (KB5005010) correctly address the PrintNightmare Print Spooler vulnerability (CVE-2021-34527). Microsoft says that the emergency security patches released early this week correctly address the PrintNightmare Print Spooler vulnerability (CVE-2021-34527) for all supported Windows versions. Immediately after the release of the updates (KB5004945) multiple researchers questioned its efficiency and explained […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 08, 2021
The emergency patch for the PrintNightmare vulnerability released by Microsoft is incomplete and still allows RCE. Yesterday, Microsoft has released an out-of-band KB5004945 security update to address the PrintNightmare vulnerability, unfortunately, the patch is incomplete and still allows remote code execution. Researchers have demonstrated that it is possible to bypass the emergency patch to achieve remote code execution […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 02, 2021
Microsoft is urging Azure users to update PowerShell to address a remote code execution vulnerability that was fixed earlier this year. Microsoft is recommending its Azure users to update PowerShell versions 7.0 and 7.1 to protect against a high severity remote code execution vulnerability tracked as CVE-2021-26701. The IT giant is inviting the PowerShell task […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 09, 2021
Microsoft’s June 2021 Patch Tuesday addressed 50 vulnerabilities, including six zero-day issues that are being actively exploited in the wild. Microsoft’s June 2021 Patch Tuesday addresses 50 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, .NET Core and Visual Studio, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based and EdgeHTML), SharePoint Server, Hyper-V, Visual Studio Code – Kubernetes Tools, Windows HTML Platform, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 24, 2021
Microsoft revealed that 92% of all on-premises Microsoft Exchange servers exposed online affected by the ProxyLogon vulnerabilities are now patched. On March 2nd, Microsoft released emergency out-of-band security updates that address four zero-day issues collectively tracked as ProxyLogon (CVE-2021-26855, CVE-2021-26857, CVE-2021-26858, and CVE-2021-27065) in all supported Microsoft Exchange versions that are actively exploited in the wild. At […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 03, 2021
A researcher received a $50,000 bug bounty by Microsoft for having reported a vulnerability that could’ve allowed to hijack any account. Microsoft has awarded the security researcher Laxman Muthiyah $50,000 for reporting a vulnerability that could have allowed anyone to hijack users’ accounts without consent. According to the expert, the vulnerability only impacts consumer accounts. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 26, 2021
Microsoft announced the release of open-source CodeQL queries that it experts used during its investigation into the SolarWinds supply-chain attack Microsoft has announced the availability of open-source CodeQL queries that the IT giant used during its investigation into the SolarWinds attack. In early 2021, the US agencies FBI, CISA, ODNI, and the NSA released a joint […]
