Overview On April 14, 2020, local time, Microsoft released its April patches that fix 113 security issues, including three 0-day vulnerabilities that have been exploited in the wild. The three vulnerabilities exist in Windows Adobe Type Manager Library and the Windows kernel.
Overview Recently, a new strain of ransomware WannaRen came to the surface and began to spread between PCs. This ransomware encrypts almost all files in the Windows system and uses .WannaRen as the extension of encrypted files. The attacker leaves a Bitcoin wallet address and demands 0.05 Bitcoin as ransom.
Overview On March 31, 2020, local time, Google published an advisory, announcing that the newest version of Chrome 80.0.3987.162 to be rolled out in the coming days would address eight security vulnerabilities. Now this version has been released. The most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code in the context of […]
Overview On April 6, Sangfor released an advisory, announcing that an overseas APT organization illegally took control of some of their SSL VPN devices and sent malicious files to clients by exploiting a client upgrade vulnerability. NSFOCUS has kept a close eye on this issue and conducted overall analysis. We advise related users to take […]
Overview IBM released security advisories to announce the fix of two remote code execution vulnerabilities (CVE-2020-4276 and CVE-2020-4362) in WebSphere Application Server. The two vulnerabilities exist when WebSphere uses token-based authentication in an admin request over the SOAP connector. By sending a maliciously crafted request to WebSphere SOAP Connector, an attacker could execute arbitrary code […]
Overview On April 1, the Guardicore Labs team uncovered a long-running attack campaign which aims to infect Windows machines running MS-SQL servers. At least since May 2018, the campaign uses password brute force to breach victim machines, deploys multiple backdoors, and executes numerous malicious modules, such as remote access tools (RATs). We dubbed the campaign […]
Vulnerability Description On March 31, the Linux kernel privilege escalation vulnerability demonstrated by the competitor Manfred Paul on the Pwn2Own contest was included in the CVE database and identified as CVE-2020-8835. This vulnerability exists because the bpf verifier in the Linux kernel does not properly calculate register bounds for certain operations. A local attacker could […]
Overview On March 23, local time, Microsoft released an out-of-band security advisory ADV200006 to address two critical 0-day vulnerabilities in Adobe Type Manager Library. A vulnerability exists in Microsoft Windows when the Windows Adobe Type Manager Library improperly handles a crafted multi-master font, namely, the Adobe Type 1 PostScript format. An attacker could exploit the […]
Vulnerability Description Security researchers from NSFOCUS found a directory traversal vulnerability (CVE-2020-5405) in the Spring Cloud Config component. On February 26, Spring released a security bulletin to announce this vulnerability and also expressed appreciation to NSFOCUS.
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 attacker could exploit this vulnerability […]
