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CISA has re-added a security bug affecting Windows devices to its list of bugs exploited in the wild after removing it in May due to Active Directory certificate authentication issues caused by Microsoft's May 2022 updates. The flaw is an actively exploited Windows LSA spoofing vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-26925 and confirmed to be a new PetitPotam Windows NTLM Relay attack vector.
The latest version of the OpenSSL library has been discovered as susceptible to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability on select systems. OpenSSL 1.1.1 as well as OpenSSL forks BoringSSL and LibreSSL are not affected.
WordPress websites using a widely used plugin named Ninja Forms have been updated automatically to remediate a critical security vulnerability that's suspected of having been actively exploited in the wild. Ninja Forms is a customizable contact form builder that has over 1 million installations.
WordPress sites using Ninja Forms, a forms builder plugin with more than 1 million installations, have been force-updated en masse this week to a new build that addresses a critical security vulnerability likely exploited in the wild. If the plugin hasn't yet been updated automatically to the patched version, you can also manually apply the security update from the dashboard.
Microsoft officially released fixes to address an actively exploited Windows zero-day vulnerability known as Follina as part of its Patch Tuesday updates. Tracked as CVE-2022-30190, the zero-day bug relates to a remote code execution vulnerability affecting the Windows Support Diagnostic Tool when it's invoked using the "Ms-msdt:" URI protocol scheme from an application such as Word.
A few hours ago, we recorded this week's Naked Security podcast, right on Patch Tuesday itself. We said as much in the podcast, and inferred, that Follina either wasn't really considered a bug, and therefore didn't get fixed, or was still in the process of getting some sort of fix that wasn't ready in time.
Today is Microsoft's June 2022 Patch Tuesday, and with it comes fixes for 55 vulnerabilities, including fixes for the Windows MSDT 'Follina' zero-day vulnerability and new Intel MMIO flaws. Microsoft has fixed the widely-exploited Windows Follina MSDT zero-day vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-30190 in the June 2022 Updates.
Summer holiday season fuels upswing of travel-themed spamPhishers, scammers and malware peddlers are ready to take advantage of the summer holiday season: According to Bitdefender security analysts, the deluge of travel-themed spam has started in March and is expected to reach its peak in June. Attackers aren't slowing down, here's what researchers are seeingIn this Help Net Security interview, John Shier, Senior Security Advisor at Sophos, talks about the main findings of two Sophos reports: the 2022 Active Adversary Report and the State of Ransomware Report, which provide an exceptional overview of the modern threat landscape.
May 2022 Patch Tuesday provided the final releases for several Windows 10 operating systems and this month we'll see the final update for Internet Explorer 11. June 2022 Patch Tuesday forecast We hope to see a fix for CVE-2022-30190 in this month's operating systems updates.
Proof-of-concept exploits for the actively exploited critical CVE-2022-26134 vulnerability impacting Atlassian Confluence and Data Center servers have been widely released this weekend. The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-26134 is a critical unauthenticated, remote code execution vulnerability exploited through OGNL injection and impacts all Atlassian Confluence and Data Center 2016 servers after version 1.3.0.