Windows Server

Pierluigi Paganini November 15, 2021
Microsoft rolled out emergency updates to fix Windows Server auth failures

Microsoft has released out-of-band security updates to address authentication issues affecting Windows Server. Microsoft has released out-of-band updates to fix authentication failures related to Kerberos delegation scenarios impacting Domain Controllers (DC) running Windows Server. These issues impacts Windows Server 2019 and lower versions, including Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2008 […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 12, 2018
Cryptocurrency mining operations target Windows Server, Redis and Apache Solr servers online

Researchers from the ISC SANS group and the Anti-DDoS company Imperva discovered two distinct campaigns targeting Windows Server, Redis and Apache Solr servers online. Last week new mining campaigns targeted unpatched Windows Server, Apache Solr, and Redis servers, attackers attempted to install the cryptocurrency miner Coinminer. Two campaigns were spotted by researchers from the ISC SANS group and the […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 20, 2015
How to use a malicious JPEG to hack corporate networks

Security researcher Marcus Murray discovered a method to exploit a malicious JPEG to compromise modern Windows servers inside corporate networks. Security expert and penetration tester Marcus Murray discovered a way to use a malicious JPEG to compromise modern Windows servers and elevate privileges over targeted networks. The researcher has demonstrated the attack a few days […]