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September episode of “In The Trend of VM”: 7 CVEs, fake reCAPTCHA, lebanese pagers, VM and IT annual bonuses

September episode of “In The Trend of VM”: 7 CVEs, fake reCAPTCHA, lebanese pagers, VM and IT annual bonuses. Starting this month, we decided to slightly expand the topics of the videos and increase their duration. I cover not only the trending vulnerabilities of September, but also social engineering cases, real-world vulnerability exploitation, and practices of vulnerability management process. At the end we announce a contest of questions about Vulnerability Management with gifts. 🎁

📹 Video “In The Trend of VM” on YouTube
🗞 A post on Habr (rus) a slightly expanded script of the video
🗒 A compact digest on the official PT website

Content:

🔻 00:51 Elevation of Privilege – Windows Installer (CVE-2024-38014) and details about this vulnerability
🔻 02:42 Security Feature Bypass – Windows Mark of the Web “LNK Stomping” (CVE-2024-38217)
🔻 03:50 Spoofing – Windows MSHTML Platform (CVE-2024-43461)
🔻 05:07 Remote Code Execution – VMware vCenter (CVE-2024-38812)
🔻 06:20 Remote Code Execution – Veeam Backup & Replication (CVE-2024-40711), while the video was being edited, data about exploitation in the wild appeared
🔻 08:33 Cross Site Scripting – Roundcube Webmail (CVE-2024-37383)
🔻 09:31 SQL Injection – The Events Calendar plugin for WordPress (CVE-2024-8275)
🔻 10:30 Human vulnerabilities: fake reCAPTCHA
🔻 11:45 Real world vulnerabilities: еxplosions of pagers and other electronic devices in Lebanon and the consequences for the whole world
🔻 14:42 Vulnerability management process practices: tie annual bonuses of IT specialists to meeting SLAs for eliminating vulnerabilities
🔻 16:03 Final and announcement of the contest
🔻 16:24 Backstage

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Somebody is watching you: IP camera, TV and Emma Watson’s smartphone

Somebody is watching you: IP camera, TV and Emma Watson’s smartphone. Today I want to talk today about privacy in a most natural sense. You probably have an internet-connected device with camera an microphone: smartphone, tablet, smart TV, ip camera, baby monitor, etc.

– Can it be used to record video/audio and spy on you?
– Of course, yes!
– Only government and device vendor has resources to do it?
– Not really

Somebody is watching you

The sad truth is: most of internet-connected devices have security problems, and, unlike traditional desktops and servers, it’s much harder to patch them. Even if the vendor fixed the issue. The customers, average people, just don’t bother themselves to do it. Each week it’s become easier to access user data and even get full control over device. Hackers and pranksters may do it just for lulz, because they can.

Let’s see it on concrete examples.

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