Month: September 2023

Credit to Author: Microsoft Threat Intelligence| Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2023 16:30:00 +0000

Since February 2023, Microsoft has observed a high volume of password spray attacks attributed to Peach Sandstorm, an Iranian nation-state group. In a small number of cases, Peach Sandstorm successfully authenticated to an account and used a combination of publicly available and custom tools for persistence, lateral movement, and exfiltration.

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Credit to Author: Microsoft Threat Intelligence| Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2023 11:30:00 +0000

A set of memory corruption vulnerabilities in the ncurses library could have allowed attackers to chain the vulnerabilities to elevate privileges and run code in the targeted program’s context or perform other malicious actions.

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