Microsoft's May Patch Tuesday Fixes 38 Flaws, Including 2 Exploited Zero-Day Bugs

Microsoft has rolled out Patch Tuesday updates for May 2023 to address 38 security flaws, including two zero-day bugs that it said are being actively exploited in the wild. Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative ZDI said the volume is the lowest since August 2021, although it pointed out that "this...

Apple Users Need to Update iOS Now to Patch Serious Flaws

Plus: Microsoft fixes several zero-day bugs, Google patches Chrome and Android, Mozilla rids Firefox of a full-screen vulnerability, and more...

Google Warns Spyware Being Deployed Against Android, iOS Users

Google is warning victims in Kazakhstan and Italy that they are being targeted by Hermit, a sophisticated and modular spyware from Italian vendor RCS Labs that not only can steal data but also record and make calls. Researchers from Google Threat Analysis Group TAG revealed details in a blog post...

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...

2 New Mozilla Firefox 0-Day Bugs Under Active Attack — Patch Your Browser ASAP!

Mozilla has pushed out-of-band software updates to its Firefox web browser to contain two high-impact security vulnerabilities, both of which it says are being actively exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2022-26485 and CVE-2022-26486, the zero-day flaws have been described as use-after-free...

Apple Fixes 2 Zero-Day Security Bugs, One Exploited in the Wild

Apple on Wednesday released 13 patches for serious security bugs in macOS and 10 for flaws in iOS/iPadOS. They include fixes for two zero-day bugs, one of which may have been exploited by attackers in the wild. The first zero-day CVE-2022-22587 is a memory-corruption issue that could be exploited...

Google Details Two Zero-Day Bugs Reported in Zoom Clients and MMR Servers

An exploration of zero-click attack surface for the popular video conferencing solution Zoom has yielded two previously undisclosed security vulnerabilities that could have been exploited to crash the service, execute malicious code, and even leak arbitrary areas of its memory. Natalie Silvanovic...

Azure Zero-Day Bugs Show Lurking Supply-Chain Risk

Four Microsoft zero-day vulnerabilities in the Azure cloud platform’s Open Management Infrastructure OMI — a software that many don’t know is embedded in a host of services — show that OMI represents a significant security blind spot, researchers said. Collectively dubbed “OMIGOD” because of the...

Chinese Hackers Implant PlugX Variant on Compromised MS Exchange Servers

A Chinese cyberespionage group known for targeting Southeast Asia leveraged flaws in the Microsoft Exchange Server that came to light earlier this March to deploy a previously undocumented variant of a remote access trojan RAT on compromised systems. Attributing the intrusions to a threat actor...

Update Your Windows Computers to Patch 6 New In-the-Wild Zero-Day Bugs

Microsoft on Tuesday released another round of security updates for Windows operating system and other supported software, squashing 50 vulnerabilities, including six zero-days that are said to be under active attack. The flaws were identified and resolved in Microsoft Windows, .NET Core and Visu...

Microsoft Patches Six Zero-Day Security Holes

Microsoft today released another round of security updates for Windows operating systems and supported software, including fixes for six zero-day bugs that malicious hackers already are exploiting in active attacks. Junes Patch Tuesday addresses just 49 security holes -- about half the normal...

This Week in Security News May 7, 2021

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Apple Releases Urgent Security Patches For Zero‑Day Bugs Under Active Attacks

Apple on Monday released security updates for iOS, macOS, and watchOS to address three zero-day flaws and expand patches for a fourth vulnerability that the company said might have been exploited in the wild. The weaknesses all concern WebKit, the browser engine which powers Safari and other...

Latest Apple Text-Bomb Crashes iPhones via Message Notifications

Apple devices are vulnerable to a “text bomb” attack where simply looking at messages or posts containing characters in the Sindhi language can crash devices. Sindhi is an official language used in Pakistan. The bug affects iPhone, iPad, Macs and Apple Watches, and arises from macOS and iOS faili...

Apple Pushes Back Against Zero-Day Exploit Claims

Apple has pushed back against claims that two zero-day bugs in its iPhone iOS have been exploited for years, saying it’s found no evidence to support such activity. Apple officials made the statement in response to a widely disseminated report published Wednesday by ZecOps, which claimed that two...

Nation-State Attackers Are Adobe's Biggest Worry

SAN FRANCISCO–It’s no secret that attackers have made Adobe’s products key targets for the last couple of years, routinely going after bugs in Reader, Flash and Acrobat in targeted attacks and widespread campaigns alike. But it’s not just the rank-and-file bad guys who are making Adobe a priority...