• MS-DEFCON 4: Protect yourself with patches

    Posted on April 26, 2022 at 02:45 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

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    ISSUE 19.17.1 • 2022-04-26

    MS-DEFCON 4

    By Susan Bradley

    I’ve been holding my breath.

    For the past few weeks, I’ve been watching for attacks that researchers indicated would be coming due to a vulnerability in all versions of Windows. All I’m seeing so far are theoretical attacks, not actual attacks.

    CVE-2022-26809, the headline vulnerability of the April updates that impacts Windows 7 through Windows 10 — as well as Windows Server versions — sounded like it had the potential of being a worm inside a network. Microsoft complicated the matter when it first indicated that this vulnerability was triggered by SMB file sharing. Then it clarified that the original researcher had provided a proof of concept that used SMB file sharing, but that additional methodologies could be used in attacks.

    Anyone can read the full MS-DEFCON Alert (19.17.1, 2022-04-26).

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