Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Microsoft on Thursday released out-of-band security updates to patch a critical-severity Windows Server Update Service (WSUS) vulnerability with a proof-of-concept (Poc) exploit publicly available and has come under active exploitation in the wild

None under active exploit…yet Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday flaw-fixing festival addresses 111 problems in its products, a dozen of which are deemed critical, and one moderate-severity flaw that is listed as being publicly known.…

Some 17 of the bugs are at high risk for exploits, including multiple remote code execution bugs in Office and SharePoint.

The bug is one of 66 disclosed and patched today by Microsoft as part of its June 2025 Patch Tuesday set of security vulnerability fixes.

Proof-of-Concept Exploit 'LDAP Nightmare' Crashes 'Any Unpatched Windows Server'Security experts are urging all organizations that use Microsoft Windows to ensure they install patches, released last month, to fix Lightweight Directory Access Protocol denial-of-service and remote code execution flaws. Researchers have released a proof-of-concept exploit for the latter flaw.

The November 2024 Patch Tuesday update contains a substantially high percentage of remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities (including a critical issue in Windows Kerberos), and two other zero-day bugs that have been previously disclosed and could soon come under attack.

Plus, a POC to make it extra easy for attackers A Microsoft SharePoint bug that can allow an attacker to remotely inject code into vulnerable versions is under active exploitation, according to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).…

The North Korean threat actor known as ScarCruft has been linked to the zero-day exploitation of a now-patched security flaw in Windows to infect devices with malware known as RokRAT

Unknown attackers have deployed a newly discovered backdoor dubbed Msupedge on a university's Windows systems in Taiwan, likely by exploiting a recently patched PHP remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2024-4577). [...]

Remote Code Execution Exploit Found; Patch Now AvailableA critical remote code execution vulnerability in PHP for Windows, affecting all releases since version 5.x, requires immediate action from server administrators. The flaw enables attackers to execute arbitrary code on remote PHP servers through an argument injection attack.

Details have been made public about a now-patched high-severity flaw in Kubernetes that could allow a malicious attacker to achieve remote code execution with elevated privileges under specific circumstances

A second, easy-to-exploit critical security vulnerability in Microsoft's first 2024 Patch Tuesday allows RCE within Hyper-Virtualization.

Technical details have emerged about two now-patched security flaws in Microsoft Windows that could be chained by threat actors to achieve remote code execution on the Outlook email service sans any user interaction

It's the second Tuesday of the month, and Microsoft has released another set of security updates to fix a total of 97 flaws impacting its software, one of which has been actively exploited in ransomware attacks in the wild

Plus Intel, Adobe, SAP and Android bugs Patch Tuesday Microsoft fixed 98 security flaws in its first Patch Tuesday of 2023 including one that's already been exploited and another listed as publicly known. Of the new January vulnerabilities, 11 are rated critical because they lead to remote code execution.…

More than 60,000 Microsoft Exchange servers exposed online are yet to be patched against the CVE-2022-41082 remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, one of the two security flaws targeted by ProxyNotShell exploits. [...]

Oh, and that critical VMware auth bypass vuln? Miscreants found it, too August Patch Tuesday clicks off the week of hacker summer camp in Las Vegas this year, so it's basically a code cracker's holiday too. …