Another day, another zero-day for Google Chrome

THREAT LEVEL: Amber. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here. Google has published an emergency fix 94.0.4606.71 to address the latest zero-day vulnerabilities CVE 2021 37975, CVE 2021 37976. These are the fourth and fifth zero days of the month. These flaws have been exploited in the...

Update Google Chrome ASAP to Patch 2 New Actively Exploited Zero-Day Flaws

Google on Thursday pushed urgent security fixes for its Chrome browser, including a pair of new security weaknesses that the company said are being exploited in the wild, making them the fourth and fifth actively zero-days plugged this month alone. The issues, designated as CVE-2021-37975 and...

Apple AirTag Zero-Day Weaponizes Trackers

An unpatched stored cross-site scripting XSS bug in Apple’s AirTag “Lost Mode” could open up users to a cornucopia of web-based attacks, including credential-harvesting, click-jacking, malware delivery, token theft and more. That’s according to Bobby Rauch, an independent security researcher who...

Webstor - A Script To Quickly Enumerate All Websites Across All Of Your Organization'S Networks, Store Their Responses, And Query For Known Web Technologies, Such As Those With Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

WebStor is a tool implemented in Python under the MIT license for quickly enumerating all websites across all of your organization's networks, storing their responses, and querying for known web technologies and versions, such as those with zero-day vulnerabilities. It is intended, in particular,...

Defend against zero-day exploits with Microsoft Defender Application Guard

Zero-day security vulnerabilities—known to hackers, but unknown to software creators, security researchers, and the public—are like gold to attackers. With zero-days, or even zero-hours, developers have no time to patch the code, giving hackers enough access and time to explore and map internal...

Defend against zero-day exploits with Microsoft Defender Application Guard

Zero-day security vulnerabilities—known to hackers, but unknown to software creators, security researchers, and the public—are like gold to attackers. With zero-days, or even zero-hours, developers have no time to patch the code, giving hackers enough access and time to explore and map internal...

NSO Pegasus iPhone Spyware Vulnerabilities Fixed by Apple – Detect & Prioritize Using VMDR for Mobile Devices

Apple recently released iOS and iPadOS 12.5.5, 15.0, which includes a security update that addresses almost 25 vulnerabilities, including several critical RCE and privilege escalation vulnerabilities. In 12.5.5, Apple fixed 3 critical zero-day vulnerabilities, which are used to deploy NSO Pegasus...

FormBook Adds Latest Office 365 0-Day Vulnerability (CVE-2021-40444) to Its Arsenal

Trend Micro detected a new campaign using a recent version of the known FormBook infostealer. Newer FormBook variants used the recent Office 365 zero-day vulnerability, CVE-2021-40444...

Urgent Chrome security update released to patch widely exploited 0-day

By Deeba Ahmed The vulnerability impacts 2 Billion Chrome users worldwide therefore Google is asking users to update their browsers right now. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Urgent Chrome security update released to patch widely exploited 0-day...

Urgent Chrome Update Released to Patch Actively Exploited Zero-Day Vulnerability

Google on Friday rolled out an emergency security patch to its Chrome web browser to address a security flaw that's known to have an exploit in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2021-37973, the vulnerability has been described as use after free in Portals API, a web page navigation system that enables a...

The Proliferation of Zero-days

The MIT Technology Review is reporting that 2021 is a blockbuster year for zero-day exploits: One contributing factor in the higher rate of reported zero-days is the rapid global proliferation of hacking tools. Powerful groups are all pouring heaps of cash into zero-days to use for themselves --...

Apple Patches 3 More Zero-Days Under Active Attack

Apple has patched three actively exploited zero-day security vulnerabilities in updates to iOS and macOS, one of which can allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges. Apple released two updates on Thursday: iOS 12.5.5, which patches three zero-days that affect older versio...

Urgent Apple iOS and macOS Updates Released to Fix Actively Exploited Zero-Days

Apple on Thursday released security updates to fix multiple security vulnerabilities in older versions of iOS and macOS that it says have been detected in exploits in the wild, in addition to expanding patches for a previously plugged security weakness abused by NSO Group's Pegasus surveillance...

100M IoT Devices Exposed By Zero-Day Bug

A flaw in a widely used internet-of-things IoT infrastructure code left more than 100 million devices across 10,000 enterprises vulnerable to attacks. Researchers at Guardara used their technology to find a zero-day vulnerability in NanoMQ, an open-source platform from EMQ that monitors IoT devic...

Unpatched Apple Zero-Day Allows Code Execution

A zero-day security vulnerability in Apple’s macOS Finder system could allow remote attackers to trick users into running arbitrary commands, according to researchers – and a silent patch hasn’t fixed it. For those not in the Apple camp, the macOS Finder is the default file manager and GUI...

Unpatched High-Severity Vulnerability Affects Apple macOS Computers

Cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday disclosed details of an unpatched zero-day vulnerability in macOS Finder that could be abused by remote adversaries to trick users into running arbitrary commands on the machines. "A vulnerability in macOS Finder allows files whose extension is inetloc to...

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...

CISA, FBI: State-Backed APTs Are Exploiting Critical Zoho Bug

The FBI, CISA and the U.S. Coast Guard Cyber Command CGCYBER warned today that state-backed advanced persistent threat APT actors are likely among those who’ve been actively exploiting a newly identified bug in a Zoho single sign-on and password management tool since early last month. At issue is...

Google patches chrome zero-day vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here. Google just released a major security update for Google Chrome that addresses eleven vulnerabilities, including two zero-day flaws that have been exploited in the wild. A remote attacker might take use of the flaws by trickin...

Apple fixes the zero-day vulnerabilities exploited by Pegasus spyware named “FORCEDENTRY”

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here. Two actively exploited vulnerabilities CVE-2021-30858 and CVE-2021-30860 have been fixed in Apples iOS 14.8, iPadOS 14.8, watchOS 7.6.2, macOS Big Sur 11.6, and Safari 14.1.2 releases. The NSO group carried out the attack by...