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Update Your Chrome Browser to Patch 2 New In-the-Wild 0-Day Exploits
Google on Tuesday released a new version of Chrome web-browsing software for Windows, Mac, and Linux with patches for two newly discovered security vulnerabilities for both of which it says exploits exist in the wild, allowing attackers to engage in active exploitation. One of the two flaws...
NSA Discovers New Vulnerabilities Affecting Microsoft Exchange Servers
In its April slate of patches, Microsoft rolled out fixes for a total of 114 security flaws, including an actively exploited zero-day and four remote code execution bugs in Exchange Server. Of the 114 flaws, 19 are rated as Critical, 88 are rated Important, and one is rated Moderate in severity...
Threat Actors Targeting Cybersecurity Researchers
Google and Microsoft recently published reports on advanced persistent threat APT actors targeting cybersecurity researchers. The APT actors are using fake social media profiles and legitimate-looking websites to lure security researchers into visiting malicious websites to steal information,...
Could the Microsoft Exchange breach be stopped?
A look at the latest Microsoft zero-day exploits and how Trend Micro could help protect you...
Zero-day vulnerability in Desktop Window Manager (CVE-2021-28310) used in the wild
While analyzing the CVE-2021-1732 exploit originally discovered by the DBAPPSecurity Threat Intelligence Center and used by the BITTER APT group, we discovered another zero-day exploit we believe is linked to the same actor. We reported this new exploit to Microsoft in February and after...
Chrome Zero-Day Exploit Posted on Twitter
A researcher has dropped working exploit code for a zero-day remote code execution RCE vulnerability on Twitter, which he said affects the current versions of Google Chrome and potentially other browsers, like Microsoft Edge, that use the Chromium framework. Security researcher Rajvardhan Agarwal...
CVE-2021-28310
Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Recent assessments: ccondon-r7 at April 13, 2021 8:41pm UTC reported: Ah, another day, another Win32k privilege escalation used in the wild. Securelist has a good write-up on this bug, which they discovered because it was used in a BITTER APT zero-day...
Windows, Ubuntu, Zoom, Safari, MS Exchange Hacked at Pwn2Own 2021
The 2021 spring edition of Pwn2Own hacking contest concluded last week on April 8 with a three-way tie between Team Devcore, OV, and Computest researchers Daan Keuper and Thijs Alkemade. A total of $1.2 million was awarded for 16 high-profile exploits over the course of the three-day virtual even...
Google’s Project Zero Finds a Nation-State Zero-Day Operation
Googles Project Zero discovered, and caused to be patched, eleven zero-day exploits against Chrome, Safari, Microsoft Windows, and iOS. This seems to have been exploited by "Western government operatives actively conducting a counterterrorism operation": The exploits, which went back to early 202...
FATEK Automation WinProladder
1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.8 ATTENTION: Low attack complexity Vendor: FATEK Automation Equipment: WinProladder Vulnerability: Integer Underflow 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could cause execution of arbitrary code. 3. TECHNICAL DETAILS 3.1 AFFECTED PRODUCTS...
CVE-2021-1879
This issue was addressed by improved management of object lifetimes. This issue is fixed in iOS 12.5.2, iOS 14.4.2 and iPadOS 14.4.2, watchOS 7.3.3. Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to universal cross site scripting. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been...
Legacy QNAP NAS Devices Vulnerable to Zero-Day Attack
Two critical zero-day bugs affect legacy QNAP Systems storage hardware, and expose devices to remote unauthenticated attackers. The bugs, tracked as CVE-2020-2509 and CVE-2021-36195, impact QNAP’s model TS-231 network attached storage NAS hardware, allowing an attacker to manipulate stored data a...
Hackers Set Up a Fake Cybersecurity Firm to Target Security Experts
A North Korean government-backed campaign targeting cybersecurity researchers with malware has re-emerged with new tactics in their arsenal as part of a fresh social engineering attack. In an update shared on Wednesday, Google's Threat Analysis Group said the attackers behind the operation set up...
CVE-2021-27242
This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of Parallels Desktop 16.0.1-48919. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target guest system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within...
PHP's Git Server Hacked to Insert Secret Backdoor to Its Source code
In yet another instance of a software supply chain attack, unidentified actors hacked the official Git server of the PHP programming language and pushed unauthorized updates to insert a secret backdoor into its source code. The two malicious commits were pushed to the self-hosted "php-src"...
Apple Issues Urgent Patch Update for Another Zero‑Day Under Attack
Merely weeks after releasing out-of-band patches for iOS, iPadOS, macOS and watchOS, Apple has issued yet another security update for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch to fix a critical zero-day weakness that it says is being actively exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2021-1879 , the vulnerabilit...
Apple Issues Urgent Patch Update for Another Zero‑Day Under Attack
Merely weeks after releasing out-of-band patches for iOS, iPadOS, macOS and watchOS, Apple has issued yet another security update for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch to fix a critical zero-day weakness that it says is being actively exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2021-1879, the vulnerability...
Another Critical RCE Flaw Discovered in SolarWinds Orion Platform
IT infrastructure management provider SolarWinds on Thursday released a new update to its Orion networking monitoring tool with fixes for four security vulnerabilities, counting two weaknesses that could be exploited by an authenticated attacker to achieve remote code execution RCE. Chief among...
Attacks Spike Following The Disclosure Of CVE-2021-22986: F5 Networks BIG-IP iControl Remote Command Execution Vulnerability
On March 10th F5 published a security advisory containing twenty one CVEs, the most critical one CVE-2021-22986 can be exploited for unauthenticated remote code execution attacks. In the past week, several security researchers have reverse engineered the Java software patch published by BIG-IP an...
