Security

Nacsa MDEC Provintell Cyber100 Cohort

Innovation & Cybersecurity Excellence: Our Journey from Start-up to Cybersecurity Unicorn – Join us at Cyber100 Open Day

Innovation & Cybersecurity Excellence: Our Journey from Start-up to Cybersecurity Unicorn – Join us at Cyber100 Open Day It was our first! After being more than 10 years in the industry, Cyber100 Open Day on 17 May was the first physical event we … Read More

PROVINTELL is Stellar Cyber’s Government MSSP Partner of the year 2022

PROVINTELL is Stellar Cyber’s Government MSSP Partner of 2022 Recognition builds trust. Trust fuels collaboration.We are humbly honoured to be awarded as the Government MSSP Partner of 2022! Thank you Stellar Cyber for the recognition.We implemented “Threat Intelligence as First Line of … Read More

Vulnerable Microsoft SQL Servers targeted through Cobalt strike

Hackers Target Microsoft SQL Database Servers Through Cobalt Strike

VTA-00407 – Hackers Target Microsoft SQL Database Servers Through Cobalt Strike ASEC analysis team has reported that vulnerable MS-SQL servers have been targeted by distribution of Cobalt Strike which includes attacks to an environment with unpatched vulnerability, brute forcing and … Read More

Trojans through Microsoft Teams

Hackers Spread Trojans Through Microsoft Teams

VTA-00406 – Hackers Spread Trojans Through Microsoft Teams Hackers are attaching .exe files to Teams chat to install a Trojan on the end-user computer. This trojan will bypass default protections in Teams and install malware, in which Teams has limited … Read More

PROVINTELL ESET Antivirus bug for window system privileges

ESET Antivirus Bug Allows Attackers Gain Windows SYSTEM Privileges

VTA-00405 – ESET Antivirus Bug Allows Attackers Gain Windows SYSTEM Privileges Recently, ESET has released security fixes to address a high severity local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting multiple products on systems running Windows 10 and later or Windows Server 2016 and … Read More

PROVINTELL Cyber Security Polkit's Pkexec CVE-2021-4034

Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Polkit’s Pkexec

VTA-00404 – Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Polkit’s Pkexec Recently, a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Polkit’s pkexec component is discovered in the default installations of Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and CentOS. This vulnerability has been hiding in plain sight for 12+ … Read More

Safari Brower Bugs allows cross site user tracking

Safari Browser Bug Allows Cross-Site User Tracking

VTA-00403 – Safari Browser Bug Allows Cross-Site User Tracking Recently, a software bug introduced in Apple Safari 15’s implementation of the IndexedDB API could be abused by a malicious website to track user’s online activity in the web browser and … Read More

WordPress 5.8.3 Release for Vulnerabilities

WordPress 5.8.3 To Address 4 Vulnerabilities

VTA-00402 – WordPress 5.8.3 To Address 4 Vulnerabilities  The Story: The WordPress development team released WordPress version 5.8.3 to address four vulnerabilities, two of which are rated as high severity. The set includes an SQL injection on WP_Query, a blind SQL injection … Read More