Pulse Secure Critical Zero-Day Security Bug Under Active Exploit

A critical zero-day security vulnerability in Pulse Secure VPN devices has been exploited by nation-state actors to launch cyberattacks against U.S. defense, finance and government targets, as well as victims in Europe, researchers said. Download “The Evolution of Ransomware” to gain valuable...

3 Zero-Day Exploits Hit SonicWall Enterprise Email Security Appliances

SonicWall has addressed three critical security vulnerabilities in its hosted and on-premises email security ES product that are being actively exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2021-20021 and CVE-2021-20022, the flaws were discovered and reported to the company by FireEye's Mandiant subsidia...

Zero-Day Exploits in SonicWall Email Security Lead to Enterprise Compromise

In March 2021, Mandiant Managed Defense identified three zero-day vulnerabilities in SonicWall’s Email Security ES product that were being exploited in the wild. These vulnerabilities were executed in conjunction to obtain administrative access and code execution on a SonicWall ES device. The...

Delta Electronics CNCSoft ScreenEditor

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.8 ATTENTION: Low attack complexity Vendor: Delta Industrial Automation Equipment: CNCSoft ScreenEditor Vulnerability: Out-of-bounds Read 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow arbitrary code execution. 3. TECHNICAL DETAILS 3.1...

Google Project Zero Cuts Bug Disclosure Timeline to a 30-Day Grace Period

Google Project Zero will now give organizations a 30-day grace period to patch zero-day flaws it discovers in a new disclosure policy revealed this week aimed at speeding up the time it takes for patches to be adopted. Known for discovering a number of high-profile zero days—in Google’s own...

Could the Microsoft Exchange breach be stopped?

A look at the latest Microsoft zero-day exploits and how Trend Micro could help protect you...

Microsoft Has Busy April Patch Tuesday with Zero-Days, Exchange Fixes

Microsoft had its hands full Tuesday snuffing out five zero-day vulnerabilities, a flaw under active attack and applying more patches to its problem-plagued Microsoft Exchange Server software. In all, Microsoft released patches for 110 security holes, 19 classified critical in severity and 88...

Update Your Chrome Browser to Patch 2 New In-the-Wild 0-Day Exploits

Google on Tuesday released a new version of Chrome web-browsing software for Windows, Mac, and Linux with patches for two newly discovered security vulnerabilities for both of which it says exploits exist in the wild, allowing attackers to engage in active exploitation. One of the two flaws...

NSA Discovers New Vulnerabilities Affecting Microsoft Exchange Servers

In its April slate of patches, Microsoft rolled out fixes for a total of 114 security flaws, including an actively exploited zero-day and four remote code execution bugs in Exchange Server. Of the 114 flaws, 19 are rated as Critical, 88 are rated Important, and one is rated Moderate in severity...

Could the Microsoft Exchange breach be stopped?

A look at the latest Microsoft zero-day exploits and how Trend Micro could help protect you...

Threat Actors Targeting Cybersecurity Researchers

Google and Microsoft recently published reports on advanced persistent threat APT actors targeting cybersecurity researchers. The APT actors are using fake social media profiles and legitimate-looking websites to lure security researchers into visiting malicious websites to steal information,...

Zero-day vulnerability in Desktop Window Manager (CVE-2021-28310) used in the wild

While analyzing the CVE-2021-1732 exploit originally discovered by the DBAPPSecurity Threat Intelligence Center and used by the BITTER APT group, we discovered another zero-day exploit we believe is linked to the same actor. We reported this new exploit to Microsoft in February and after...

Chrome Zero-Day Exploit Posted on Twitter

A researcher has dropped working exploit code for a zero-day remote code execution RCE vulnerability on Twitter, which he said affects the current versions of Google Chrome and potentially other browsers, like Microsoft Edge, that use the Chromium framework. Security researcher Rajvardhan Agarwal...

CVE-2021-28310

Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Recent assessments: ccondon-r7 at April 13, 2021 8:41pm UTC reported: Ah, another day, another Win32k privilege escalation used in the wild. Securelist has a good write-up on this bug, which they discovered because it was used in a BITTER APT zero-day...

Windows, Ubuntu, Zoom, Safari, MS Exchange Hacked at Pwn2Own 2021

The 2021 spring edition of Pwn2Own hacking contest concluded last week on April 8 with a three-way tie between Team Devcore, OV, and Computest researchers Daan Keuper and Thijs Alkemade. A total of $1.2 million was awarded for 16 high-profile exploits over the course of the three-day virtual even...

Google’s Project Zero Finds a Nation-State Zero-Day Operation

Googles Project Zero discovered, and caused to be patched, eleven zero-day exploits against Chrome, Safari, Microsoft Windows, and iOS. This seems to have been exploited by "Western government operatives actively conducting a counterterrorism operation": The exploits, which went back to early 202...

FATEK Automation WinProladder

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.8 ATTENTION: Low attack complexity Vendor: FATEK Automation Equipment: WinProladder Vulnerability: Integer Underflow 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could cause execution of arbitrary code. 3. TECHNICAL DETAILS 3.1 AFFECTED PRODUCTS...

CVE-2021-1879

This issue was addressed by improved management of object lifetimes. This issue is fixed in iOS 12.5.2, iOS 14.4.2 and iPadOS 14.4.2, watchOS 7.3.3. Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to universal cross site scripting. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been...

Legacy QNAP NAS Devices Vulnerable to Zero-Day Attack

Two critical zero-day bugs affect legacy QNAP Systems storage hardware, and expose devices to remote unauthenticated attackers. The bugs, tracked as CVE-2020-2509 and CVE-2021-36195, impact QNAP’s model TS-231 network attached storage NAS hardware, allowing an attacker to manipulate stored data a...

Hackers Set Up a Fake Cybersecurity Firm to Target Security Experts

A North Korean government-backed campaign targeting cybersecurity researchers with malware has re-emerged with new tactics in their arsenal as part of a fresh social engineering attack. In an update shared on Wednesday, Google's Threat Analysis Group said the attackers behind the operation set up...