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I transformed my English-language site avleonov.com

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I transformed my English-language site avleonov.com

I transformed my English-language site avleonov.com. While my Russian-language site avleonov.ru was intended as a mirror of my Telegram channel @avleonovrus, I wasn’t sure how to move forward with the English-language site. 🤔

I’ve been running it since 2016. For a long time, it was my main VM blog. Since February 2020, I have been making posts there exclusively with videos. 🪧 I have released 94 videos. But over time, I grew tired of this format. 😮‍💨 It was easier and more engaging to create videos in Russian (starting with “Прожекторе по ИБ“, and later in “В тренде VM“) and translate them into English when needed.

Since March 2024, the English site had no updates. New posts appeared exclusively on the Telegram channel @avleonovcom. 🤷‍♂️ So, I decided to make the site a mirror of this channel. 🪞

✅ I updated the scripts and uploaded 117 Telegram posts (since March 2024) to the site, leaving the earlier content as is.

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

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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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Veeam B&R RCE vulnerability CVE-2024-40711 is exploited in attacks

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Veeam B&R RCE vulnerability CVE-2024-40711 is exploited in attacks

Veeam B&R RCE vulnerability CVE-2024-40711 is exploited in attacks. On September 24, there were no signs of this vulnerability being exploited in the wild. And on October 10, Sophos X-Ops reported that they had observed a series of attacks exploiting this vulnerability over the course of a month. The attackers’ goal was to install Akira and Fog ransomware. 🤷‍♂️

The thesis of my original post was correct. The absence of reports on the exploitation of vulnerabilities in real attacks is not a reason to ignore them.

“This does not mean that attackers do not exploit these vulnerabilities. It is possible that targeted attacks using these vulnerabilities have simply not yet been reliably confirmed.”

🟥 Positive Technologies classifies the vulnerability as trending since September 10th.

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August episode of “In The Trend of VM”: 5 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and one in WordPress

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August episode of “In The Trend of VM”: 5 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and one in WordPress. We have branched off from Seclab news videos and started releasing separate episodes. Hooray! 🥳😎 If we get enough views, we will continue to release them in the future. It’s up to you, please follow the link to the video platform and click “Like” button and/or leave a comment. 🥺

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

List of vulnerabilities:

🔻 00:48 Remote Code Execution – Windows Remote Desktop Licensing Service “MadLicense” (CVE-2024-38077)
🔻 02:22 Security Feature Bypass – Windows Mark of the Web “Copy2Pwn” (CVE-2024-38213)
🔻 03:23 Elevation of Privilege – Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock (CVE-2024-38193), Windows Kernel (CVE-2024-38106), Windows Power Dependency Coordinator (CVE-2024-38107)
🔻 04:50 Unauthenticated Elevation of Privilege – WordPress LiteSpeed Cache Plugin (CVE-2024-28000)

English voice over was generated by my open source utility subtivo (subtitles to voice over)

06:39 Check out the final jingle I generated using AI services 😉 (ToolBaz for lyrics and Suno for music)

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Trending vulnerabilities of July according to Positive Technologies

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Trending vulnerabilities of July according to Positive Technologies.

The SecLab film crew went on vacation. Therefore, there was a choice: to skip the episode of “In the trend of VM” about the July vulnerabilities, or to make a video myself. Which is what I tried to do. And from the next episode we will return to SecLab again.

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

List of vulnerabilities:

🔻 00:33 Spoofing – Windows MSHTML Platform (CVE-2024-38112)
🔻 02:23 RCE – Artifex Ghostscript (CVE-2024-29510)
🔻 03:55 RCE – Acronis Cyber Infrastructure (CVE-2023-45249)

English voice over was generated by my open source utility subtivo (subtitles to voice over)

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Trending vulnerabilities for June according to Positive Technologies

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Trending vulnerabilities for June according to Positive Technologies. Traditionally, in 3 formats (in Russian):

📹 The section “Trending VM” in the SecLab news video (starts at 15:03)
🗞 Post on the Habr website, in fact this is a slightly expanded scenario for the “Trending VM” section
🗒 Compact digest with technical details on the official PT website

List of vulnerabilities:

🔻 EoP in Microsoft Windows CSC (CVE-2024-26229)
🔻 EoP in Microsoft Windows Error Reporting (CVE-2024-26169)
🔻 EoP in Microsoft Windows Kernel (CVE-2024-30088)
🔻 RCE in PHP (CVE-2024-4577)
🔻 EoP in Linux Kernel (CVE-2024-1086)
🔻 InfDisclosure in Check Point Security Gateways (CVE-2024-24919)
🔻 RCE in VMware vCenter (CVE-2024-37079, CVE-2024-37080)
🔻 AuthBypass in Veeam Backup & Replication (CVE-2024-29849)

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The digest of March trending vulnerabilities was published on the Positive Technologies website (in Russian)

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The digest of March trending vulnerabilities was published on the Positive Technologies website (in Russian)The digest of March trending vulnerabilities was published on the Positive Technologies website (in Russian)The digest of March trending vulnerabilities was published on the Positive Technologies website (in Russian)The digest of March trending vulnerabilities was published on the Positive Technologies website (in Russian)The digest of March trending vulnerabilities was published on the Positive Technologies website (in Russian)

The digest of March trending vulnerabilities was published on the Positive Technologies website (in Russian). I also generated a Vulristics report for these vulnerabilities. There are 5 vulnerabilities in total.

🔻 For 3 vulnerabilities there are exploits and confirmed signs of exploitation in the wild: AuthBypass – TeamCity (CVE-2024-27198), RCE – FortiClientEMS (CVE-2023-48788), EoP – Windows Kernel (CVE-2024-21338).

🔻 For 2 more vulnerabilities there are no signs of exploitation in the wild yet, but there are exploits: EoP – Windows CLFS Driver (CVE-2023-36424), RCE – Microsoft Outlook (CVE-2024-21378).

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