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Threat actors are exploiting a misconfiguration in Selenium Grid, a popular web app testing framework, to deploy a modified XMRig tool for mining Monero cryptocurrency. Selenium Grid is open-source and enables developers to automate testing across multiple machines and browsers.
Microsoft has confirmed that July's security updates break remote desktop connections in organizations where Windows servers are configured to use the legacy RPC over HTTP protocol in the Remote Desktop Gateway. "Windows Servers might affect Remote Desktop Connectivity across an organization if legacy protocol is used in Remote Desktop Gateway. Resulting from this, remote desktop connections might be interrupted," Microsoft explained.
Progress Software's latest security advisory warns customers about the second critical vulnerability targeting its Telerik Report Server in as many months. Some of you may remember CVE-2019-18935, another deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability affecting Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX. It was used by multiple attackers including an unspecified Advanced Persistent Threat group to successfully target US federal agencies in 2023, despite being added to CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerability catalog in 2021.
Progress Software has fixed a critical vulnerability in its Telerik Report Server solution and is urging users to upgrade as soon as possible. Telerik Report Server is an enterprise solution for storing, creating, managing and viewing reports in web and desktop applications.
Progress Software is urging users to update their Telerik Report Server instances following the discovery of a critical security flaw that could result in remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-6327, impacts Report Server version 2024 Q2 and earlier.
Progress Software has warned customers to patch a critical remote code execution security flaw in the Telerik Report Server that can be used to compromise vulnerable devices. As a server-based reporting platform, Telerik Report Server provides centralized storage for reports and the tools needed to create, deploy, deliver, and manage them across an organization.
Microsoft has confirmed that Windows Server updates from last month's Patch Tuesday break some Microsoft 365 Defender features that use the network data reporting service. "Devices which have installed Windows Server updates released June 11, 2024 might experience problems with Microsoft 365 Defender," the company explained on the Windows Server health dashboard.
Censys warns that over 1.5 million Exim mail transfer agent instances are unpatched against a critical vulnerability that lets threat actors bypass security filters. Tracked as CVE-2024-39929 and patched by Exim developers on Wednesday, the security flaw impacts Exim releases up to and including version 4.97.1.
A critical security issue has been disclosed in the Exim mail transfer agent that could enable threat actors to deliver malicious attachments to target users' inboxes. "Exim through 4.97.1 misparses a multiline RFC 2231 header filename, and thus remote attackers can bypass a $mime filename extension-blocking protection mechanism, and potentially deliver executable attachments to the mailboxes of end users," according to a description shared on the U.S. National Vulnerability Database.
Hackers are targeting older versions of the HTTP File Server from Rejetto to drop malware and cryptocurrency mining software. The researchers say that during the attacks the hackers collect information about the system, install backdoors and various other types of malware.