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Vulnerability and Threat Advisories

“Security rules and techniques that helping you stay ahead of cyber threats”

Trojans through Microsoft Teams
23/02/2022

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 …

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PROVINTELL ESET Antivirus bug for window system privileges
10/02/2022

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 …

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PROVINTELL Cyber Security Polkit's Pkexec CVE-2021-4034
04/02/2022

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+ …

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Safari Brower Bugs allows cross site user tracking
21/01/2022

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 …

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WordPress 5.8.3 Release for Vulnerabilities
13/01/2022

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 …

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