Politics and Policy Keynotes: Nord Stream 1 & 2 Pipeline Destruction Overshadows Moscow Granting Citizenship to Former NSA Contractor Edward SnowdenIn late September, Danish armed forces discovered leaks from undersea pipes in the Baltic Sea. (3) These leaks were caused by the suspected sabotage of the Russian (Gazprom) owned Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines. Malware: New Microsoft Exchange Server Zero-Day VulnerabilitiesVietnam-based security researchers at cybersecurity firm GTSC discovered two zero-day vulnerabilities which targeted Microsoft Exchange servers and can be tracked as CVE-2022-41040 (server-side request forgery (SSRF)) and CVE-2022-41082 (remote code execution if the attacker has access to PowerShell). The high severity of these vulnerabilities is caused by the possibility of remote code execution (RCE) on the compromised system(s). (15, 16)Also confirmed by Microsoft, GTSC has provided successful temporary mitigations to block these attacks until Microsoft releases a security update addressing these two zero-day vulnerabilities.

Source: Forbes October 13, 2022 18:49 UTC