Microsoft Patch Tuesday November 2023, (Tue, Nov 14th)

Today, Microsoft released patches for 64 different vulnerabilities in Microsoft products, 14 vulnerabilities in Chromium affecting Microsoft Edge, and five vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft&#;x26;#;39;s Linux distribution, Mariner. Three of these vulnerabilities are already being exploited, and three have been made public before the release of the patches.

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Noticing command and control channels by reviewing DNS protocols, (Mon, Nov 13th)

Malicious software pieces installed in computers call home. Some of them can be noticed because they perform DNS lookup and some of them initiates connection without DNS lookup. For this last option, this is abnormal and can be noticed by any Network Detection and Response (NDR) tool that reviews the network traffic by at least two weeks.

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Visual Examples of Code Injection, (Thu, Nov 9th)

Code injection techniques (T1055 from MITRE[1]) is a common technique these days. It’s a nice way for an attacker to hide malicious code into a legit process. A deviation of this technique is called “Process Hollowing”[2] where code of the legit suspended process is wiped and replaced by malicious code. Code injection is performed by calling Microsoft API calls like: VirtualAllocEx(), NtUnmapViewOfSecrio(), WriteProcessMemory(), … (they are many others available)

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Example of Phishing Campaign Project File, (Wed, Nov 8th)

We all have a love and hate relation with emails. When newcomers on the Internet starts to get emails, they are so happy but their feeling changes quickly. Then, they hope to reduce the flood of emails received daily… Good luck! Of course, tools have been developed to organize marketing campaigns. From marketing to spam or phishing, there is only one step. Bad guys started to use the same programs for malicious purpose.

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