2023 Cybersecurity Industry Predictions

With 2022 rapidly coming to a close, this is the time of year where it makes sense to take a step back and look at the year in cybersecurity, and make a few critical predictions for what the industry could face in the year ahead. In order to give the security community some insight into where we’...

Google Warns of Internet Explorer Zero-Day Vulnerability Exploited by ScarCruft Hackers

An Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability was actively exploited by a North Korean threat actor to target South Korean users by capitalizing on the recent Itaewon Halloween crowd crush to trick users into downloading malware. The discovery, reported by Google Threat Analysis Group researchers...

Update now! Emergency fix for Google Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine zero-day flaw released

On Friday, December 2, Google rolled out an out-of-band patch for an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability in its V8 JavaScript engine. The flaw could allow attackers to cause a system crash or execute potentially malicious code. That means you'll want to update Chrome to patch against this...

Security advisories are falling short. Here's why, with Dustin Childs: Lock and Code S03E25

Decades ago, patching was, to lean into a corny joke, a bit patchy. In the late 90s, the Microsoft operating system OS Windows 98 had a supportive piece of software that would find security patches for the OS so that users could then download those patches and deploy them to their computers. That...

The 9th Google Chrome Zero-Day Threat this Year – Again Just Before the Weekend

Google has released yet another security update for the Chrome desktop web browser to address a high-severity vulnerability that is being exploited in the wild. This is the ninth Chrome zero-day fixed this year by Google. This security bug CVE-2022-4262; QID 377804 is a Type Confusion vulnerabili...

Google Rolls Out New Chrome Browser Update to Patch Yet Another Zero-Day Vulnerability

Search giant Google on Friday released an out-of-band security update to fix a new actively exploited zero-day flaw in its Chrome web browser. The high-severity flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-4262, concerns a type confusion bug in the V8 JavaScript engine. Clement Lecigne of Google's Threat Analysis...

New Opera 93 Stable update includes fix for latest Chromium zero-day

Security New Opera 93 Stable update includes fix for latest Chromium zero-day Share December 2nd, 2022 Hi everyone! Opera for Windows and Mac have received Stable updates 93.0.4585.37 and 93.0.4585.39 respectively. Among other things, these updates include Chromium update 107.0.5304.122, which...

Don’t Spend Your Holiday Season Patching Chrome

As we come back from our Thanksgiving holidays, Google has released yet another security update for the Chrome desktop web browser to address a high-severity vulnerability that exists in the wild. This is the eighth Chrome zero-day fixed this year by Google. This security bug CVE-2022-4135; QID...

Actively Exploited Zero-Day Bug in Chrome

Threat Level Vulnerability Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary CVE-2022-4135 is a high-severity heap buffer overflow issue that affects the GPU component. The fault is caused by a boundary error in the GPU while processing untrusted HTML input. An attacker wh...

GE CIMPLICITY

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.8 ATTENTION: Low attack complexity Vendor: GE Equipment: CIMPLICITY Vulnerabilities: Access of Uninitialized Pointer, Heap-based Buffer Overflow, Untrusted Pointer Dereference, Out-of-bounds Write 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities...

Exploit for CVE-2022-30190

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Hive Ransomware is on the rise. How should you deal with it?

Why Now? Hive is not a new problem. It first surfaced in 2021 but it’s becoming a much bigger issue now. This is due to a growing number of affiliates and therefore attacks. 2022 has seen more widespread country and industry target interest too. Ransomware growth in general is becoming a massive...

GHSA-93VW-8FM5-P2JF Parse Server is vulnerable to Prototype Pollution via Cloud Code Webhooks

Impact A compromised Parse Server Cloud Code Webhook target endpoint allows an attacker to use prototype pollution to bypass the Parse Server requestKeywordDenylist option. Patches Improved keyword detection. Workarounds None. Collaborators Mikhail Shcherbakov, Cristian-Alexandru Staicu and Musar...

Microsoft addressed ProxyNotShell with November Patch Tuesday

Threat Level Vulnerability Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Microsoft addressed six zero-day vulnerabilities in this patch Tuesday, along with other significant vulnerabilities that could lead to Remote Code Execution, Information Disclosure, and Denial of...

Parse Server vulnerable to Prototype Pollution via Cloud Code Webhooks or Cloud Code Triggers

Impact Keywords that are specified in the Parse Server option requestKeywordDenylist can be injected via Cloud Code Webhooks or Triggers. This will result in the keyword being saved to the database, bypassing the requestKeywordDenylist option. Patches Improved keyword detection. Workarounds...

GHSA-XPRV-WVH7-QQQX Parse Server vulnerable to Prototype Pollution via Cloud Code Webhooks or Cloud Code Triggers

Impact Keywords that are specified in the Parse Server option requestKeywordDenylist can be injected via Cloud Code Webhooks or Triggers. This will result in the keyword being saved to the database, bypassing the requestKeywordDenylist option. Patches Improved keyword detection. Workarounds...

Patch Tuesday, November 2022 Election Edition

Lets face it: Having “2022 election” in the headline above is probably the only reason anyone might read this story today. Still, while most of us here in the United States are anxiously awaiting the results of how well weve patched our Democracy, it seems fitting that Microsoft Corp. today...

November 2022 Patch Tuesday | Microsoft Releases 65 New Vulnerabilities with 10 Critical; Adobe Releases Zero Advisories (for the first time in six years).

Microsoft Patch Tuesday Summary Microsoft has fixed 65 new vulnerabilities aka flaws in the November 2022 update, including ten 10 vulnerabilities classified as Critical as they allow Denial of Service DoS, Elevation of Privilege EoP, and Remote Code Execution RCE. This months Patch Tuesday...

GHSA-PRM5-8G2M-24GG Remote code execution via MongoDB BSON parser through prototype pollution

Impact An attacker can use this prototype pollution sink to trigger a remote code execution through the MongoDB BSON parser. Patches Prevent prototype pollution in MongoDB database adapter. Workarounds Disable remote code execution through the MongoDB BSON parser. Collaborators Mikhail Shcherbako...

PT-2022-5513

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Microsoft Exchange Server affected versions not specified Description The issue is related to insufficient access controls in Microsoft Exchange Server, allowing a remote attacker to elevate their privileges. This vulnerability has been...