Chrome’s zero-day flaw allows arbitrary code execution

Threat Level Vulnerability Report For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Summary A vulnerabilityCVE-2022-2856 in Google Chrome, has been exploited in the wild. Additionally, Chrome has addressed several other use-after-free vulnerabilities in multiple components, including FedCM,...

Google Patches Chrome’s Fifth Zero-Day of the Year

Google has patched the fifth actively exploited zero-day vulnerability discovered in Chrome this year as one in a series of fixes included in a stable channel update released Wednesday. The bug, tracked as CVE-2022-2856 and rated as high on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS, is...

Urgent update for macOS and iOS! Two actively exploited zero-days fixed

Apple has released emergency security updates to fix two zero-day vulnerabilities previously exploited by attackers to hack iPhones, iPads, or Macs. Publicly disclosed computer security flaws are listed in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database. Its goal is to make it easier to sha...

Apple Releases Security Updates to Patch Two New Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

Apple on Wednesday released security updates for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS platforms to remediate two zero-day vulnerabilities previously exploited by threat actors to compromise its devices. The list of issues is below - CVE-2022-32893 - An out-of-bounds write issue in WebKit which could lead to th...

Zero-day vulnerabilities fixed in Apple macOS, iOS and iPadOS

Apple, in an interim update, has fixed two zero-day 0day vulnerabilities fixed in macOS, iOS and iPadOS. A malicious person can exploit the vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code. The most serious vulnerability, marked CVE-2022-32894, allows execution of code at the kernel level. Abuse of this...

New Google Chrome Zero-Day Vulnerability Being Exploited in the Wild

Google on Tuesday rolled out patches for Chrome browser for desktops to contain an actively exploited high-severity zero-day flaw in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2022-2856, the issue has been described as a case of insufficient validation of untrusted input in Intents. Security researchers Ashley She...

Vulnerabilities & Threats that Matter 08 – 14th Aug

Published Vulnerabilities Interesting Vulnerabilities Active Threat Groups Targeted Countries Targeted Industries ATT&CK TTPs 563 14 3 69 08 71 For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary The second week of August 2022 witnessed the discovery of 563 vulnerabilities out of whi...

Sloppy Software Patches Are a ‘Disturbing Trend’

The Zero Day Initiative has found a concerning uptick in security updates that fail to fix vulnerabilities...

[updated] Thousands of Zimbra mail servers backdoored in large scale attack

Researchers at Volexity have discovered that a known vulnerability has been used in a large scale attack against Zimbra Collaboration Suite ZCS email servers. But the vulnerability was supposed to be hard to exploit since it required authentication. So they decided to dig deeper. An incomplete fi...

Zero-day vulnerability leveraged to deploy Cuba Ransomware

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Summary The threat actors behind the Cuba ransomware have stepped up their game by using a new Remote Access Trojan called ROMCOM and weaponizing a local privilege escalation vulnerabilityCVE-2022-24521. A wide range o...

Microsoft tackles DogWalk zero-day vulnerability and multiple privilege escalation vulnerabilities

Threat Level Vulnerability Report For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Microsoft Patch Tuesday addresses CVE-2022-34713, also known as DogWalk, as well as numerous issues affecting Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Windows Support Diagnostic Tool MSDT, Windows Print...

Microsoft Patches ‘Dogwalk’ Zero-Day and 17 Critical Flaws

Microsoft is urging users to patch a zero-day vulnerability dubbed Dogwalk that is actively being exploited in the wild. The bug CVE-2022-34713 is tied to a Microsoft Windows Support Diagnostic Tool and allows a remote attacker to execute code on a vulnerable system. “The volume of fixes released...

Microsoft Issues Patches for 121 Flaws, Including Zero-Day Under Active Attack

As many as 121 new security flaws were patched by Microsoft as part of its Patch Tuesday updates for the month of August, which also includes a fix for a Support Diagnostic Tool vulnerability that the company said is being actively exploited in the wild. Of the 121 bugs, 17 are rated Critical, 10...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, August 2022 Edition

Microsoft today released updates to fix a record 141 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and related software. Once again, Microsoft is patching a zero-day vulnerability in the Microsoft Support Diagnostics Tool MSDT, a service built into Windows. Redmond also addressed...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday for August 2022 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities

By Jon Munshaw and Vanja Svajcer. Microsoft released its monthly security update Tuesday, disclosing more than 120 vulnerabilities across its line of products and software, the most in a single Patch Tuesday in four months. This batch of updates also includes a fix for a new vulnerability in the...

August 2022 Patch Tuesday | Microsoft Releases 121 Vulnerabilities with 17 Critical, plus 20 Microsoft Edge (Chromium-Based); Adobe Releases 5 Advisories, 25 Vulnerabilities with 15 Critical.

Microsoft Patch Tuesday Summary Microsoft has fixed 121 vulnerabilities aka flaws in the August 2022 update, including 17 vulnerabilities classified as Critical as they allow Elevation of Privilege EoP and Remote Code Execution RCE. This months Patch Tuesday fixes two 2 zero-day vulnerabilities,...

Vulnerabilities & Threats that Matter 01 – 07th Aug

Published Vulnerabilities Interesting Vulnerabilities Active Threat Groups Targeted Countries Targeted Industries ATT&CK TTPs 461 12 1 60 30 26 For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary The first week of August 2022 witnessed the discovery of 461 vulnerabilities out of whic...

Hackers Exploit Twitter Vulnerability to Exposes 5.4 Million Accounts

Twitter on Friday revealed that a now-patched zero-day bug was used to link phone numbers and emails to user accounts on the social media platform. "As a result of the vulnerability, if someone submitted an email address or phone number to Twitter's systems, Twitter's systems would tell the perso...

Vulnerabilities & Threats that Matter 25 – 31st July

Published Vulnerabilities Interesting Vulnerabilities Active Threat Groups Targeted Countries Targeted Industries ATT&CK TTPs 462 7 4 52 22 64 For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary The Last week of July 2022 witnessed the discovery of 462 vulnerabilities out of which 7...

Microsoft Zero-Days Sold and then Used

Yet another article about cyber-weapons arms manufacturers and their particular supply chain. This one is about Windows and Adobe Reader zero-day exploits sold by an Austrian company named DSIRF. Theres an entire industry devoted to undermining all of our security. It needs to be stopped...