Plus: Three-year-old ProxyLogon flaw added to CISA's exploited bugs list
Microsoft says it's investigating issues with a patch intended to plug a two-year-old flaw in the GRUB open source boot loader that is crashing some dual-boot computers running both Windows and Linux. In that crash users are aptly told:"Something went seriously wrong.", a bootloader used by a lot of Linux distributions as well as a number of Windows machines.
Today when I started the laptop I see the below message for a few seconds and then the laptop shuts down…Something has gone seriously wrong: SBAT self-check failed: Security Policy Violation'"This update is not applied when a Linux boot option is detected," a Microsoft spokesperson said."We are aware that some secondary boot scenarios are causing issues for some customers, including when using outdated Linux loaders with vulnerable code.
In September 2022, CISA, the National Security Agency, and FBI along with international law enforcement warned that the Iranian Government's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was actively scanning for this and other CVEs they could use to steal sensitive data and deploy ransomware.asked both CISA and Microsoft for additional details about who is currently exploiting the Exchange Server flaw, and for what purposes, and will update this if and when we receive a response.
"Microsoft must do better in its outreach to Exchange server administrators," Childs said."Patching your front-line e-mail server shouldn't be such a challenge. Servers should not be vulnerable to three-year-old vulnerabilities. Unless Microsoft and other vendors make it easier to patch, this sort of attack will continue.
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