Vulnerabilities and exploits

At the end of May, researchers reported a new zero-day vulnerability in MSDT that can be exploited using Microsoft Office documents. The vulnerability, which dubbed Follina, later received the identifier CVE-2022-30190.

PC malware statistics for the Q1 2022 includes data on miners, ransomware, banking Trojans, and other threats to Windows, macOS and IoT devices.

The Verizon 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report is out, where Kaspersky collaborated as a contributor. The report provides interesting analysis of a full amount of global incident data.

Technical details and mitigations for CVE-2022-22965 vulnerability (Spring4Shell) that can help an attacker to execute arbitrary code on a remote web server.

Exploit for CVE-2022-0847 (Dirty Pipe) vulnerability in Linux kernel is available online. Kaspersky solutions detect and prevent exploitation attempts.

This report contains statistics and observations on vulnerabilities, phishing schemes and malware related to telehealth.

Check out the answers to some of users’ biggest security questions about the Log4Shell vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-44228, CVE-2021-45046, CVE-2021-45105).

How to trick the machine-learning model in Anti-Spam designed to detect and quarantine suspicious e-mails, and how to detect such attacks.

Key statistics for 2021: miners, ransomware, trojan bankers and other financial malware, zero-day vulnerabilities and exploits, web attacks, threats for macOS and IoT.

The summary of the critical vulnerability CVE-2021-44228 in the Apache Log4j library, technical details and mitigations.

PC threat statistics for Q3 2021 contain data on miners, encrypting ransomware, financial malware, and threats to Windows, macOS and IoT.

We detected attacks with the use of an elevation of privilege exploit on multiple Microsoft Windows servers. Variants of the malware payload used along with the zero-day exploit were detected in widespread espionage campaigns. We are calling this cluster of activity MysterySnail.

Last week, Microsoft reported the RCE vulnerability CVE-2021-40444 in the MSHTML browser engine. Kaspersky is aware of targeted attacks using this vulnerability, and our products protect against attacks leveraging it.

Ferocious Kitten, TunnelSnake, PuzzleMaker and other threat actors, zero-day vulnerabilities, ransomware and banking Trojans – check out our review of Q2 2021.

PC threat statistics for Q2 2021 contain data on miners, encrypting ransomware, financial malware and threats to Windows, macOS and IoT.