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Microsoft search protocol enables clients to initiate connections against an enterprise search service such as SharePoint or WebDav. During these search connections the protocol server… Continue reading → Initial Access – search-ms URI Handler

Microsoft search protocol enables clients to initiate connections against an enterprise search service such as SharePoint or WebDav. During these search connections the protocol server… Continue reading → Initial Access – search-ms URI Handler

Security researchers have detailed a new variant of a dynamic link library (DLL) search order hijacking technique that could be used by threat actors to bypass security mechanisms and achieve execution of malicious code on systems running Microsoft Windows 10 and Windows 11. The approach "leverages executables commonly found in the trusted WinSxS folder and exploits them via the classic DLL

Plus: Apple shuts down a Flipper Zero Attack, Microsoft patches more than 30 vulnerabilities, and more critical updates for the last month of 2023.

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has warned of a new phishing campaign orchestrated by the Russia-linked APT28 group to deploy previously undocumented malware such as OCEANMAP, MASEPIE, and STEELHOOK to harvest sensitive information. The activity, which was detected by the agency between December 15 and 25, 2023, targets government entities

Nation-state actors affiliated to North Korea have been observed using spear-phishing attacks to deliver an assortment of backdoors and tools such as AppleSeed, Meterpreter, and TinyNuke to seize control of compromised machines. South Korea-based cybersecurity company AhnLab attributed the activity to an advanced persistent threat group known as Kimsuky. “A notable point about attacks that

Microsoft on Thursday said it’s once again disabling the ms-appinstaller protocol handler by default following its abuse by multiple threat actors to distribute malware. “The observed threat actor activity abuses the current implementation of the ms-appinstaller protocol handler as an access vector for malware that may lead to ransomware distribution,” the Microsoft Threat Intelligence

Prior work from this researcher disclosed how PowerShell executes unintended files or BASE64 code when processing specially crafted filenames. This research builds on their PSTrojanFile work, adding a PS command line single quote bypass and PS event logging failure. On Windows CL tab, completing a filename uses double quotes that can be leveraged to trigger arbitrary code execution. However, if the filename got wrapped in single quotes it failed, that is until now.

Lot Reservation Management System version 1.0 suffers from a remote shell upload vulnerability.

Lot Reservation Management System version 1.0 suffers from a file disclosure vulnerability.