A week in security (January 17 – 23)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: CISA calls for urgent action against critical threats Red Cross begs attackers to “Do the right thing” after family reunion service compromised Update now! Chrome patches critical RCE vulnerability in Safe Browsing Combatting SMS and phone fraud: UK government issu...

A week in security (January 17 — 23)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: CISA calls for urgent action against critical threats Red Cross begs attackers to “Do the right thing” after family reunion service compromised Update now! Chrome patches critical RCE vulnerability in Safe Browsing Combatting SMS and phone fraud: UK government issu...

Kodi 'Open Subtitles' Addon Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Kodi formerly XBMC is a free and open source media player software application. A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Kodi. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on an affected system, and a failed attack would result in a denial of service...

Popcorn Time Subtitles Remote Code Execution

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Popcorn Time Subtitles mechanism. The vulnerability is due to the way PopcornTime appends subtitles to its Interface. A remote attacker can exploit this issue by uploading a malicious subtitles file to Open Subtitles. Successful exploitation could...