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On June 2, 2022, CVE-2022-26134 “Confluence,” a zero-day remote code execution vulnerability, was discovered in all versions of the Confluence Server and Data Center. The attack was detected to be of high severity (CVSS:9.0/10.0) according to a security advisory...
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On May 30, 2022, CVE-2022-30190 “FOLLINA,” a zero-day remote code execution vulnerability discovered in Microsoft Windows Support Diagnostic Tool (MSDT) with high severity (CVSS:9.3). This MSDT tool diagnoses issues with applications such as Microsoft Office documents. Initial attack vector...
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A Zero-day Remote Code Execution Vulnerability with high severity has been identified as CVE-2022-30190 “FOLLINA” in Microsoft Windows Support Diagnostic Tool (MSDT). MSDT is a tool present on Windows version 7 and above and is used for the diagnosis...
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A Zero-day Remote Code Execution Vulnerability with critical severity has been identified as CVE-2022-22965 aka Spring4Shell or SpringShell in Spring Framework versions 5.3.0 to 5.3.17, 5.2.0 to 5.2.19 & older. The Spring Framework is an open-source, popular, feature-rich application...
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A critical zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) was recently discovered in Apache Log4J, the popular Java open source logging library used in countless worldwide applications. The maximum severity vulnerability has been identified as ‘Log4Shell’, which, if exploited, could permit a remote...
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For several months, Quick Heal Security Labs has been observing an increase in ransomware, we have found one more interesting ransomware which encrypts files and adds extension “.katyusha” and demands for an amount of 0.5 btc within three days and threatens to...
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Cyber-attacks through phishing emails are increasing and generally, attackers use DOC embedded macros to infiltrate victim’s machine. Recently Quick Heal Security Labs came across a Phishing e-mail sample which uses Microsoft’s equation editor exploit to spread Hawkeye keylogger. Cybercriminals...
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The recent zero-day vulnerability in Windows VBScript Engine (CVE-2018-8174), enables attackers to perform a remote code execution on targeted machines. Microsoft has released a security advisory CVE-2018-8174 on May 8, 2018, to address this issue. According to Microsoft, it impacts most of the Windows...
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No wonder malspam campaigns are a major medium to spread malware. Previously, we have written about such campaigns making use of MS Office malware such as malicious macro, CVE-2017-0199, CVE-2017-8759 and DDE-based attack. Recently, we have started observing various malspam campaigns...