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SilkParasite Espionage Campaign Targeting Central Asian Governments

The SilkParasite threat actor is targeting Central Asian government entities with a modular suite of seven remote access tools delivered via spear-phishing and DLL sideloading.

Office SilkParasite
1r 3t
high advisory

Multiple Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Products

Microsoft Office products contain multiple vulnerabilities that allow a remote attacker to achieve arbitrary code execution, privilege escalation, information disclosure, file manipulation, and perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

Office vulnerability
1t
critical threat

August 2026 Microsoft Security Update Analysis

Microsoft's August 2026 security release addresses 415 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day (CVE-2026-68820) exploited in the wild that enables local privilege escalation in the Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock.

exploited Windows +7 vulnerability-management patch-tuesday privilege-escalation
1t 5c updated
critical threat

Microsoft Addresses Two Actively Exploited Zero-Day Vulnerabilities in July 2026 Patch Tuesday

Microsoft's July 2026 Patch Tuesday addressed 622 vulnerabilities, including two actively exploited zero-day elevation of privilege flaws, CVE-2026-56155 in Active Directory Federation Services and CVE-2026-56164 in SharePoint, allowing local and remote attackers to gain administrative control.

exploited PoC Active Directory Federation Services +23 patch-tuesday zero-day vulnerability microsoft windows sharepoint active-directory-federation-services bitlocker +2
8t 4c 8i updated
medium advisory

CVE-2026-42832 - Microsoft Office Improper Access Control Vulnerability Leading to Spoofing

CVE-2026-42832 is an improper access control vulnerability in Microsoft Office that allows an unauthorized attacker to perform local spoofing.

Office cve-2026-42832 spoofing microsoft-office access-control
2r 2t 1c
high advisory

CVE-2026-42831 Heap-based Buffer Overflow in Microsoft Office

CVE-2026-42831 is a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in Microsoft Office, allowing a local attacker to execute arbitrary code with a CVSS score of 7.8.

Office cve heap overflow microsoft office code execution
1r 1t 1c
high threat

CVE-2026-40419: Microsoft Office Use-After-Free Vulnerability for Local Privilege Escalation

CVE-2026-40419 is a use-after-free vulnerability in Microsoft Office that allows an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges.

Office use-after-free privilege-escalation microsoft-office
2r 1t 1c
high threat

CVE-2026-40363: Microsoft Office Heap-based Buffer Overflow

A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in Microsoft Office allows an unauthenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary code.

Office heap-based buffer overflow code execution microsoft office cve-2026-40363
2r 1t 1c
high advisory

CVE-2026-40358 Use-After-Free Vulnerability in Microsoft Office

CVE-2026-40358 describes a use-after-free vulnerability in Microsoft Office that could allow an unauthorized local attacker to execute code with elevated privileges.

Office cve use-after-free microsoft office code execution
2r 2t 1c
medium advisory

Suspicious Process Creation Followed by Memory Access from Unknown Region

The rule identifies suspicious process creation where a process is created and immediately accessed from an unknown memory code region by the same parent process, indicating a potential code injection attempt, specifically process hollowing, commonly targeting processes spawned by Microsoft Office applications, scripting engines, and command-line tools for defense evasion.

Office +2 defense-evasion process-injection windows
2r 1t
low advisory

Windows Scheduled Task Creation for Persistence

Adversaries may create scheduled tasks on Windows systems to establish persistence, move laterally, or escalate privileges, and this detection identifies such activity by monitoring Windows event logs for scheduled task creation events, excluding known benign tasks and those created by system accounts.

OneDrive +5 persistence scheduled-task windows
3r 1t