Spring4Shell: Zero-Day Vulnerability in Spring Framework (CVE-2022-22965)

Rapid7 has completed remediating the instances of Spring4Shell CVE-2022-22965 and Spring Cloud CVE-2022-22963 vulnerabilities that we found on our internet-facing services and systems. For further information and updates about our internal response to Spring4Shell, please see our post here. If yo...

Google Chrome Bug Actively Exploited as Zero-Day

Google has updated its Stable channel for the desktop version of Chrome, to address a zero-day security vulnerability that’s being actively exploited in the wild. The bug, tracked as CVE-2022-1096, is a type-confusion issue in the V8 JavaScript engine, which is an open-source engine used by Chrom...

Update now! Google releases emergency patch for Chrome zero-day used in the wild

Google has urged its 3 billion+ users to update to Chrome version 99.0.4844.84 for Mac, Windows, and Linux to mitigate a zero-day that is currently being exploited in the wild. This is in response to a bug reported by an anonymous security researcher last week. The flaw, which is tracked as...

Analyzing the Attack Landscape: Rapid7’s 2021 Vulnerability Intelligence Report

Every year, our research team at Rapid7 analyzes thousands of vulnerabilities to understand root causes, dispel misconceptions, and explain why some flaws are more likely to be exploited than others. By continuously reviewing the vulnerability landscape and sharing our research team’s insights, w...

Google Issues Urgent Chrome Update to Patch Actively Exploited Zero-Day Vulnerability

Google on Friday shipped an out-of-band security update to address a high severity vulnerability in its Chrome browser that it said is being actively exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2022-1096, the zero-day flaw relates to a type confusion vulnerability in the V8 JavaScript engine. An...

North Korean state-sponsored threat actor Lazarus Group exploiting Chrome Zero-day vulnerability

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here For more than a month before a fix was available, North Korean state hackers known as Lazarus group exploited a zero-day, remote code execution vulnerability CVE-2022-0609 in Google Chromes web browser. The attack mainly targe...

Google Chrome Zero-Day Bugs Exploited Weeks Ahead of Patch

North Korean threat actors exploited a remote code execution RCE zero-day vulnerability in Google’s Chrome web browser weeks before the bug was discovered and patched, according to researchers. Google Threat Analysis Group TAG discovered the flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-0609, on Feb. 10, reporting a...

North Korean Hackers Exploited Chrome Zero-Day to Target Fintech, IT, and Media Firms

Google's Threat Analysis Group TAG on Thursday disclosed that it acted to mitigate threats from two distinct government-backed attacker groups based in North Korea that exploited a recently-uncovered remote code execution flaw in the Chrome web browser. The campaigns, once again "reflective of th...

APT41 Spies Broke Into 6 US State Networks via a Livestock App

USAHerds – an app used PDF by farmers to speed their response to diseases and other threats to their livestock – has itself become an infection vector, used to pry open at least six U.S. state networks by one of China’s most prolific state-sponsored espionage groups. In a report published by...

Update now! Microsoft patches three zero-day vulnerabilities on Patch Tuesday

The updates for Microsofts March 2022 Patch Tuesday should fix 92 vulnerabilities, including three zero-day vulnerabilities. Of the 92 vulnerabilities, 21 are for Microsoft Edge and originate from the Chromium Project. Of the 71 others, three are classified as Critical because they allow remote...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, March 2022 Edition

Microsoft on Tuesday released software updates to plug at least 70 security holes in its Windows operating systems and related software. For the second month running, there are no scary zero-day threats looming for Windows users, and relatively few "critical" fixes. And yet we know from experienc...

Chinese state-sponsored threat group APT41 targets U.S. critical organizations using two Zero-Days

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here A China state-sponsored threat group known as APT41 is observed compromising at least six U.S. state governments networks in a threat campaign beginning from May 2021. APT41 is a well-known Chinese state-sponsored espionage...

Microsoft addressed three zero-day vulnerabilities March 2022 Patch Tuesday Update

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Microsoft addressed 71 the following vulnerabilities in their March 2022 Patch Tuesday Update. This advisory briefs about six vulnerabilities out of which three of them have been rated critical in severity and three of them ar...

Weekly Threat Digest: 28 February – 6 March 2022

For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Published Vulnerabilities Interesting Vulnerabilities Targeted Countries Targeted Industries ATT&CK TTPs 381 19 3 5 22 The first week of March 2022 witnessed the discovery of 381 vulnerabilities out of which 19 garnered the attention of...

Critical Security Patches Issued by Microsoft, Adobe and Other Major Software Firms

Microsoft's Patch Tuesday update for the month of March has been made officially available with 71 fixes spanning across its software products such as Windows, Office, Exchange, and Defender, among others. Of the total 71 patches, three are rated Critical and 68 are rated Important in severity...

March 2022 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Releases 92 Vulnerabilities with 3 Critical; Adobe Releases 3 Advisories, 6 Vulnerabilities with 5 Critical.

Microsoft Patch Tuesday Summary Microsoft has fixed 92 vulnerabilities, including 21 Microsoft Edge vulnerabilities, in the March 2022 update, with three 3 classified as Critical as they allow Remote Code Execution RCE. This months Patch Tuesday release includes fixes for three 3 publicly disclos...

Microsoft Addresses 3 Zero-Days & 3 Critical Bugs for March Patch Tuesday

Microsoft has addressed 71 security vulnerabilities in its scheduled March Patch Tuesday update – only three of which are rated critical in severity. The other 68 are all rated “important.” Three of the bugs are listed as publicly known zero-days, but none of them are listed as having been...

Two actively exploited Zero-Day vulnerabilities discovered in Mozilla Firefox

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Two critical zero-day vulnerabilities have been identified in Mozilla Firefox that are being exploited in-the-wild and tracked as CVE-2022-26485 and CVE-2022-26485. Both are use-after-free bugs that exist in XSLT parameter...

The struggle to reduce bug-fixing time is real

There are many reasons why we want a bug fixed as soon as we can, but there are also plenty of reasons why doing it “right now” is not an option. This phenomenon starts at the side of the developers. The average time to fix a bug seems to vary depending on the platform the bug was found in. What ...

Critical Firefox Zero-Day Bugs Allow RCE, Sandbox Escape

Mozilla has released an emergency update for its Firefox browser that addresses two critical security vulnerabilities that cybercriminals have actively exploited in the wild as zero days. Both are use-after-free bugs, which are memory-corruption issues that occur when an application continues to...