Overview On March 11, Beijing time, Microsoft released March 2020 updates to fix vulnerabilities among which is a remote code execution vulnerability in Microsoft Server Message Block 3.1.1 (SMBv3) indicated in a security bulletin released earlier. This vulnerability exists in the way the Microsoft SMBv3 protocol handles certain requests. An...
Year: 2020
Microsoft SMBv3 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2020-0796) Threat Alert
Overview On March 11, Beijing time, Microsoft released March 2020 updates to fix vulnerabilities among which is a remote code execution vulnerability in Microsoft Server Message Block 3.1.1 (SMBv3) indicated in a security bulletin released earlier. Instead of a security patch, Microsoft currently provides a workaround for users to mitigate...
Linux System PPPD Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2020-8597) Threat Alert
Vulnerability Description On March 6, the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) release a security bulletin to announce a 17-year-old remote code execution vulnerability in the PPP daemon (pppd). This vulnerability affects nearly all Linux-based operating systems and network device firmware. This vulnerability is a buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2020-8597),...
IP Reputation Report-03222020
Top 10 countries in attack counts: The above diagram shows the top 10 regions with the most malicious IP addresses from the NSFOCUS IP Reputation databases at March 22, 2020. (more…)
DDoS Attack Landscape 1
Executive Summary In 2019, the average peak size of DDoS attacks rose steadily from 2018 to 42.9 Gbps, indicating that techniques employed by large and medium scale attacks are advancing year by year. After a sharp rise in 2018, super-sized DDoS attacks (> 300 Gbps) were relatively stabilizing in 2019,...
V8 Type Confusion Vulnerability (CVE-2020-6418) Threat Alert
Vulnerability Description On February 25, security updates were released for Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge. The open-source JavaScript and WebAssembly engines in V8 in Google Chrome before 80.0.3987.122 and Microsoft Edge browser before 80.0.361.62 are prone to a type confusion vulnerability (CVE-2020-6418), which allows attackers to access data in an...
