Researchers Test Zero-click Worms that Exploit Generative AI Apps

By Waqas Researchers have created computer worms with self-propagation capabilities that target GenAI applications. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Researchers Test Zero-click Worms that Exploit Generative AI Apps...

Nepali Hacker Tops Hall of Fame by Exposing Facebook’s Zero-Click Flaw

By Deeba Ahmed It is unclear how much the hacker received as part of the Facebook bug bounty program. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Nepali Hacker Tops Hall of Fame by Exposing Facebooks Zero-Click Flaw...

Over 100 Malicious AI/ML Models Found on Hugging Face Platform

As many as 100 malicious artificial intelligence AI/machine learning ML models have been discovered in the Hugging Face platform. These include instances where loading a pickle file leads to code execution, software supply chain security firm JFrog said. "The model's payload grants the attacker a...

Pegasus Spyware Targeted iPhones of Journalists and Activists in Jordan

The iPhones belonging to nearly three dozen journalists, activists, human rights lawyers, and civil society members in Jordan have been targeted with NSO Group's Pegasus spyware, according to joint findings from Access Now and the Citizen Lab. Nine of the 35 individuals have been publicly confirm...

Exploit for Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password in Gitlab

CVE-2023-7028 ⚠️ This exploit is for defensive purposes and s...

GitLab warns zero-click vulnerability could lead to account takeovers

GitLab has issued a warning about a critical vulnerability in GitLab Community Edition CE and Enterprise Edition EE. GitLab is an online DevOps platform that allows developers to collaborate on creating software. Organizations have a choice to install GitLab on their own servers or under GitLab’s...

Zero-Click Outlook RCE Exploitation Chain in Windows

Summary: Two vulnerabilities CVE-2023-35384 and CVE-2023-36710 in Microsoft Windows can be chained to achieve remote code execution RCE on vulnerable Outlook clients. Attackers can exploit these flaws by sending a crafted email with a custom notification sound file to trigger the download of a...

A week in security (December 18 – December 24)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Comcast’s Xfinity breached by Citrix Bleed; 36 million customer’s data accessed How does ThreatDown Vulnerability Assessment and Patch Management work? How Outlook notification sounds can lead to zero-click exploits Update Chrome now! Emergency update patches...

How Outlook notification sounds can lead to zero-click exploits

An Akamai researcher has found two vulnerabilities in Windows that can be combined to achieve a full, zero-click remote code execution RCE in Outlook. Both vulnerabilities were responsibly disclosed to Microsoft and addressed in the August 2023 and October 2023 patch Tuesdays, so the researcher...

Beware: Experts Reveal New Details on Zero-Click Outlook RCE Exploits

Technical details have emerged about two now-patched security flaws in Microsoft Windows that could be chained by threat actors to achieve remote code execution on the Outlook email service sans any user interaction. "An attacker on the internet can chain the vulnerabilities together to create a...

WhatsApp Introduces New Privacy Feature to Protect IP Address in Calls

Meta-owned WhatsApp is officially rolling out a new privacy feature in its messaging service called "Protect IP Address in Calls" that masks users' IP addresses to other parties by relaying the calls through its servers. "Calls are end-to-end encrypted, so even if a call is relayed through WhatsA...

iOS Zero-Day Attacks: Experts Uncover Deeper Insights into Operation Triangulation

The TriangleDB implant used to target Apple iOS devices packs in at least four different modules to record microphone, extract iCloud Keychain, steal data from SQLite databases used by various apps, and estimate the victim's location. The new findings come from Kaspersky, which detailed the great...

The outstanding stealth of Operation Triangulation

Introduction In our previous blogpost on Triangulation, we discussed the details of TriangleDB, the main implant used in this campaign, its C2 protocol and the commands it can receive. We mentioned, among other things, that it is able to execute additional modules. We also mentioned that this...

Critical libwebp Vulnerability Under Active Exploitation - Gets Maximum CVSS Score

Google has assigned a new CVE identifier for a critical security flaw in the libwebp image library for rendering images in the WebP format that has come under active exploitation in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2023-5129, the issue has been given the maximum severity score of 10.0 on the CVSS rating...

Russian Journalist's iPhone Compromised by NSO Group's Zero-Click Spyware

The iPhone belonging to Galina Timchenko, a prominent Russian journalist and critic of the government, was compromised with NSO Group's Pegasus spyware, a new collaborative investigation from Access Now and the Citizen Lab has revealed. The infiltration is said to have happened on or around...

Zero-Click Exploit in iPhones

Make sure you update your iPhones: Citizen Lab says two zero-days fixed by Apple today in emergency security updates were actively abused as part of a zero-click exploit chain dubbed BLASTPASS to deploy NSO Groups Pegasus commercial spyware onto fully patched iPhones. The two bugs, tracked as...

Adobe, Apple, Google & Microsoft Patch 0-Day Bugs

Microsoft today issued software updates to fix at least five dozen security holes in Windows and supported software, including patches for two zero-day vulnerabilities that are already being exploited. Also, Adobe, Google Chrome and Apple iOS users may have their own zero-day patching to do. On...

Apple Rushes to Patch Zero-Day Flaws Exploited for Pegasus Spyware on iPhones

Apple on Thursday released emergency security updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS to address two zero-day flaws that have been exploited in the wild to deliver NSO Group's Pegasus mercenary spyware. The issues are described as below - CVE-2023-41061 - A validation issue in Wallet that...

Exploit for Incorrect Calculation in Google Android

CVE-2020-0022 Many thanks to Insinuator for their amazing blo...

PT-2023-4994

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Apple iOS, iPadOS, and macOS versions prior to 16.6.1 Apple macOS Monterey versions prior to 12.6.9 Apple macOS Ventura versions prior to 13.5.2 Apple iOS versions prior to 15.7.9 Apple iPadOS versions prior to 15.7.9 Apple macOS Big Sur...