Internet Explorer

Pierluigi Paganini October 19, 2024
North Korea-linked APT37 exploited IE zero-day in a recent attack

North Korea-linked group APT37 exploited an Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability in a supply chain attack. A North Korea-linked threat actor, tracked as APT37 (also known as RedEyes, TA-RedAnt, Reaper, ScarCruft, Group123), exploited a recent Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-38178 (CVSS score 7.5), in a supply chain attack. Threat intelligence firm AhnLab and South […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 08, 2022
APT37 used Internet Explorer Zero-Day in a recent campaign

Google warns that the North Korea-linked APT37 group is exploiting Internet Explorer zero-day flaw to spread malware. North Korea-linked APT37 group (aka ScarCruft, Reaper, and Group123) actively exploited an Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-41128, in attacks aimed at South Korean users. Google Threat Analysis Group researchers discovered the zero-day vulnerability in late October 2022, it […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 08, 2021
Microsoft warns of a zero-day in Internet Explorer that is actively exploited

Microsoft warns of a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer that is actively exploited by threat actors using weaponized Office docs. Microsoft warns of a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2021-40444) in Internet Explorer that is actively exploited by threat actors to hijack vulnerable Windows systems. Microsoft did not share info about the attacks either the nature of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 13, 2019
Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for February 2019 fixes IE Zero-Day

Microsoft released Patch Tuesday updates for February 2019 that address 77 flaws, including an Internet Explorer issue that has been exploited in attacks. Microsoft released Patch Tuesday updates for February 2019 that address 77 flaws, 20 critical vulnerabilities, 54 important and 3 moderate in severity. One of the issue fixed by the tech giant is […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 15, 2015
Microsoft fixes critical vulnerabilities affecting Windows and Office

Microsoft has released the month’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday that has fixed 33 vulnerabilities, most of them critical and affecting Internet Explorer. Here we are to discuss the last month’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday that this month fixed for 33 vulnerabilities, most of them affecting Internet Explorer. The experts warned that that many of the vulnerabilities are critical and […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 24, 2015
ZDI disclosed 4 zero-day vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer

The HP Zero Day Initiative has disclosed four new zero-day vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer that can be exploited by attackers to remotely execute code. The HP’s Zero Day Initiative has disclosed four new zero-day vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer that can be exploited by attackers to remotely execute code. The four zero-day flaws affect different components of the browser […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 21, 2015
Major Browsers hacked at Pwn2Own hacking competition

At the  Pwn2Own hacking competition two researchers hacked the four major browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Safari. Two researchers on Thursday successfully hacked the four major browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Apple Safari, at the Pwn2Own, the annual hacking contest in Vancouver. In particular the Korean researcher […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 28, 2014
Secunia analyzed vulnerabilities in the Top 50 portfolio products

Secunia’s Vulnerability Review 2014 provides an interesting analysis of the number of vulnerabilities in the Top 50 portfolio products. The Secunia Vulnerability Review provides a vision on global vulnerability trends, evaluating carefully the 50 most popular programs on private PCs. These programs are practically everywhere, in many cases, they are key application for ordinary IT […]