Windows Server Update Gets Serious: You Have The Weekend To Comply, Homeland Security Says

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A critical Windows Server, perfect 10, exploit is now classed as an emergency by the DHS cybersecurity agency. Here's what you need to know.

... [+]Windows security updates should always be taken seriously, of that there is no doubt. But when the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency for a perfect 10, critical, Windows Server vulnerability, the urgency meter goes off the scale.

CVE-2020-1472 is about as serious as it gets, hence the maximum 10 Common Vulnerability Scoring System rating and the critical severity that Microsoft has attached to it. The vulnerability itself opens the doors for an attacker already inside the network to access the Windows Server Active Directory domain controller.to fix the vulnerability itself in August.

This post-compromise exploit has been named Zerologon because it requires messages including strategically-placed strings of zeros to be sent using the Netlogon protocol. As long as the attacker can establish a connection with the domain controller on an unpatched system, no authentication is required to elevate privileges to the max and become an 'instant admin.

"CVE-2020-1472 is probably going to get weaponized pretty quickly," Ian Thornton-Trump, CISO at threat intelligence specialists Cyjax, says."If history is any judge, my money is on APT Fox Kitten, also known as Parasite, who since the summer of 2019 have managed within a window of a few weeks to start campaigns using targeted exploits," he warns.

 

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No one is complying to the track and trace apps. Good for us, baalgates is desperate to know where everyone is at and it’s not working, why does homeland security care and why it their business, oh you know what it’s not their business, do your job, you know the government is...

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