How a Windows zero-day was exploited in the wild for months (CVE-2024-43451)
CVE-2024-43451, a Windows zero-day vulnerability for which Microsoft released a fix on November 2024 Patch Tuesday, has been exploited since at least April 2024, ClearSky researchers have revealed. About the vulnerability CVE-2024-43451 affects all supported Windows versions and, when triggered, discloses a user’s NTLMv2 hash to the attacker, who can then use it to either mount pass the hash attacks or extract the user’s password from the hash. The result is in both cases the … More →
