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E.U. Officials Reportedly Targeted with Israeli Pegasus Spyware
Senior officials in the European Union were allegedly targeted with NSO Group's infamous Pegasus surveillance tool, according to a new report from Reuters. At least five individuals, including European Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders, are said to have been singled out in total, the news agen...
Apple Rushes Out Patches for 0-Days in MacOS, iOS
Apple rushed out patches for two zero-days affecting macOS and iOS Thursday, both of which are likely under active exploitation and could allow a threat actor to disrupt or access kernel activity. Apple released separate security updates for the bugs – a vulnerability affecting both macOS and iOS...
FORCEDENTRY: Sandbox Escape
Posted by Ian Beer & Samuel Groß of Google Project Zero We want to thank Citizen Lab for sharing a sample of the FORCEDENTRY exploit with us, and Apple’s Security Engineering and Architecture SEAR group for collaborating with us on the technical analysis. Any editorial opinions reflected below ar...
Exploit for Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in Filebrowser
CVE-2021-46398 Chamilo-LMS 1.11.14 RCE Chamilo LMS v1.11.14 wa...
CVE-2021-38745
Chamilo LMS v1.11.14 was discovered to contain a zero click code injection vulnerability which allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted plugin. This vulnerability is triggered through user interaction with the attacker's profile page...
CVE-2021-38745
Chamilo LMS v1.11.14 was discovered to contain a zero click code injection vulnerability which allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted plugin. This vulnerability is triggered through user interaction with the attacker's profile page...
Code injection
Chamilo LMS v1.11.14 was discovered to contain a zero click code injection vulnerability which allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted plugin. This vulnerability is triggered through user interaction with the attacker's profile page...
CVE-2021-38745
CVE-2021-38745 affects Chamilo LMS v1.11.14, describing a zero‑click code injection vulnerability that allows arbitrary code execution via a crafted plugin. The issue is triggered when a user interacts with the attacker’s profile page. The provided documents confirm the vulnerability exists but d...
Another Israeli Firm, QuaDream, Caught Weaponizing iPhone Bug for Spyware
A now-patched security vulnerability in Apple iOS that was previously found to be exploited by Israeli company NSO Group was also separately weaponized by a different surveillance vendor named QuaDream to hack into the company's devices. The development was reported by Reuters, citing unnamed...
Zerodium Spikes Payout for Outlook Zero-Days
Zerodium has jacked up its offering price for Microsoft Outlook zero-day exploits. Act fast if you have the goods and the moral equanimity, to make up to $400,000 for a zero-click, remote code-execution RCE exploit. “Zero-click” means that targets neither have to read a malicious email message no...
Zooming in on Zero-click Exploits
Posted by Natalie Silvanovich, Project Zero Zoom is a video conferencing platform that has gained popularity throughout the pandemic. Unlike other video conferencing systems that I have investigated, where one user initiates a call that other users must immediately accept or reject, Zoom calls ar...
Exploit for Out-of-bounds Write in Google Android
Skeleton but pronounced like Peloton A Zero-Click RCE explo...
More on NSO Group and Cytrox: Two Cyberweapons Arms Manufacturers
Citizen Lab published another report on the spyware used against two Egyptian nationals. One was hacked by NSO Groups Pegasus spyware. The other was hacked both by Pegasus and by the spyware from another cyberweapons arms manufacturer: Cytrox. We havent heard a lot about Cytrox and its Predator...
A deep dive into an NSO zero-click iMessage exploit: Remote Code Execution
Posted by Ian Beer & Samuel Groß of Google Project Zero We want to thank Citizen Lab for sharing a sample of the FORCEDENTRY exploit with us, and Apple’s Security Engineering and Architecture SEAR group for collaborating with us on the technical analysis. The editorial opinions reflected below ar...
Pegasus Spyware Reportedly Hacked iPhones of U.S. State Department and Diplomats
Apple reportedly notified several U.S. Embassy and State Department employees that their iPhones may have been targeted by an unknown assailant using state-sponsored spyware created by the controversial Israeli company NSO Group, according to multiple reports from Reuters and The Washington Post...
Apple Lawsuit Amps Up Pressure on Pegasus Spyware-Maker
In the wake of a zero-click zero-day exploit that was deployed against iPhone users, Apple has filed a lawsuit against NSO Group. The complaint alleges that the maker of the infamous Pegasus mobile spyware is responsible for the illegal surveillance of Apple users. The computing giant is looking...
NYT Journalist Repeatedly Hacked with Pegasus after Reporting on Saudi Arabia
The iPhone of New York Times journalist Ben Hubbard was repeatedly hacked with NSO Group's Pegasus spyware tool over a three-year period stretching between June 2018 to June 2021, resulting in infections twice in July 2020 and June 2021. The University of Toronto's Citizen Lab, which publicized t...
A week in security (Sept 13 – Sept 19)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs Why backups aren’t a “silver bullet” against ransomware, with Matt Crape: Lock and Code S02E17 The many tentacles of Magecart Group 8 Apple releases emergency update: Patch, but don’t panic Update now! Google Chrome fixes two in-the-wild zero-days Parts of the Dark...
Zero-Click iMessage Exploit
Citizen Lab released a report on a zero-click iMessage exploit that is used in NSO Groups Pegasus spyware. Apple patched the vulnerability; everyone needs to update their OS immediately. News articles on the exploit...
