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Microsoft Zerologon Flaw Under Attack By Iranian Nation-State Actors

Microsoft warns that the MERCURY APT has been actively exploiting CVE-2020-1472 in campaigns for the past two weeks. Exploiting the bug allows an unauthenticated attacker, with network access to a domain controller, to completely compromise Active Directory identity services. Microsoft released a patch for the Zerologon vulnerability as part of its August 11, 2020 Patch Tuesday security updates. The bug is located in a core authentication component of Active Directory within the Windows Server OS and the Microsoft Windows Netlogon Remote Protocol (MS-NRPC)

Source: https://threatpost.com/microsoft-zerologon-attack-iranian-actors/159874/

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