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Software patches from Microsoft this week closed two vulnerabilities exploited by spyware said to have been sold to governments by Israeli developer Candiru. On Thursday, Citizen Lab released a report fingering Candiru as the maker of the espionage toolkit, an outfit Microsoft code-named Sourgum.
Microsoft is sharing mitigation guidance on a new Windows Print Spooler vulnerability tracked as CVE-2021-34481 that was disclosed tonight. Microsoft released an advisory Thursday night for a new CVE-2021-34481 elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Windows Print Spooler that Dragos security researcher Jacob Baines discovered.
71 is now live in the Dev Channel of the Windows Insider program and it comes with visual improvements for the context menu and various right-click menus. As part of the latest update, Microsoft is refreshing the right-click menu within File Explorer and other apps with Fluent Design acrylic effect.
Microsoft's print nightmare continues with another example of how a threat actor can achieve SYSTEM privileges by abusing malicious printer drivers. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2021-34527 and is a missing permission check in the Windows Print Spooler that allows for installing malicious print drivers to achieve remote code execution or local privilege escalation on vulnerable systems.
Microsoft and Citizen Lab have linked Israeli spyware company Candiru to new Windows spyware dubbed DevilsTongue deployed using now patched Windows zero-day vulnerabilities. The investigation into Candiru's attacks started after Citizen Labs shared malware samples found on a victim's systems and led to the discovery of CVE-2021-31979 and CVE-2021-33771, two zero-day vulnerabilities fixed by Microsoft during this month's Patch Tuesday.
Microsoft has reminded Windows Server 2012 and SQL Server 2012 users that the products will reach their extended support end dates during the next two years, urging them to update to avoid security and compliance gaps. Even though Windows Server 2012 has reached its mainstream support end date in September 2018, the end date for extended support was pushed back five years for this exact reason: to allow organizations to migrate to newer, under-support Windows Server versions.
Microsoft has unveiled their greatly anticipated cloud-based Windows 365 service - a virtualized desktop service allowing businesses to deploy and stream Cloud PCs from Azure. Earlier this year, information was leaked about a new service developed by Microsoft called Cloud PC was that allows businesses to deploy and run Windows 10 directly from the cloud.
Microsoft said on Tuesday that a recently patched SolarWinds Serv-U zero-day vulnerability has been exploited by a Chinese threat group. IT management solutions provider SolarWinds over the weekend informed customers that its Serv-U Managed File Transfer and Serv-U Secure FTP products are affected by a remote code execution vulnerability that has been exploited in targeted attacks.
Microsoft released an XL-sized bundle of security fixes for its products for this month's Patch Tuesday, and other vendors are close behind in issuing updates. The Windows goliath's batch for July has 117 patches, 13 for what's said to be critical bugs, 103 important, and one moderate.
Microsoft has attributed a new attack on SolarWinds to a group operating in China. The software giant on Tuesday posted details of the attack, which SolarWinds on Monday patched and revealed as a Return Oriented Programming attack that targets its Serv-U managed file transfer product and allows an attacker to run arbitrary code with privileges, install programs and alter data on cracked targets.