zero-Day

Pierluigi Paganini October 04, 2019
Project Zero researcher found unpatched Android zero-day likely exploited by NSO group

Google Project Zero researcher Maddie Stone discovered a critical unpatched zero-day vulnerability affecting the Android mobile operating system. Maddie Stone, a member of the Google elite team Project Zero, discovered a critical unpatched zero-day vulnerability affecting the Android mobile operating system. According to the expert, the bug, tracked as CVE-2019-2215, was allegedly being used or […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 24, 2019
Microsoft released an out-of-band patch to fix Zero-day flaw exploited in the wild

Microsoft released an out-of-band patch to address a Zero-day memory corruption vulnerability in Internet Explorer that has been exploited in attacks in the wild. Microsoft has released an out-of-band patch for an Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability that was exploited in attacks in the wild. The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2019-1367 is a memory corruption flaw that resides […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 11, 2019
Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for September 2019 fix 2 privilege escalation flaws exploited in attacks

Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for September 2019 address 80 flaws, including two privilege escalation issues exploited in attacks. Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for September 2019 address 80 vulnerabilities, including two privilege escalation flaws that have been exploited in attacks in the wild. The updates cover Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, ChakraCore, Office and Microsoft Office […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 05, 2019
Zero-day vulnerability in Android OS yet to be patched

Maintainers of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) failed to address a privilege escalation bug in the Android mobile OS that was reported six months ago. Experts disclosed details of a zero-day vulnerability that affects the Android mobile operating system. The high-severity zero-day issue resides in the driver for the Video For Linux 2 (V4L2) […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 04, 2019
Android Zero-Day exploits are the most expensive in the new Zerodium price list

Zero-day broker Zerodium has updated the price list for both Android and iOS exploits, with Android ones having surpassed the iOS ones for the first time. For the first time, the price for Android exploits is higher than the iOS ones, this is what has emerged from the updated price list published by the zero-day […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 30, 2019
Google revealed how watering hole attacks compromised iPhone devices earlier this year

Google researchers discovered that iPhone devices could be hacked by tricking owners into visiting specially crafted websites. Researchers at Google Project Zero discovered that it was possible to hack iPhone devices by visiting specially crafted websites. Earlier this year, Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) experts uncovered an iPhone hacking campaign, initially, they spotted a limited […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 22, 2019
A new Zero-Day in Steam client impacts over 96 million Windows users

A new zero-day vulnerability in the for Windows impacting over 96 million users was disclosed by researcher Vasily Kravets. A news zero-day flaw in the Steam client for Windows client impacts over 96 million users. The flaw is a privilege escalation vulnerability and it has been publicly disclosed by researcher Vasily Kravets. Kravets is one of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 09, 2019
A Zero-Day in Steam client for Windows affects over 100 Million users

Two researchers publicly disclosed a zero-day vulnerability that affects the popular Steam game client for Windows, 0ver 100 million users at risk. Two security experts disclosed a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Stream client for Windows that can be exploited by an attacker with limited permissions to run code administrative privileges. The issue could be exploited […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 06, 2019
Expert publicly disclosed a zero-day vulnerability in KDE

A security expert has published PoC code exploit for a vulnerability in the KDE software framework that is yet to be fixed. The security expert Dominik Penner, aka “@zer0pwn”, has disclosed an unpatched KDE vulnerability on Twitter. “KDE Frameworks is a collection of libraries and software frameworks by KDE readily available to any Qt-based software stacks or applications on multiple operating systems.” The KDE Frameworks is […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 12, 2019
CVE-2019-1132 Windows Zero-Day exploited by Buhtrap Group in government attack

The CVE-2019-1132 flaw addressed by Microsoft this month was exploited by Buhtrap threat actor to target a government organization in Eastern Europe. Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for July 2019 address a total of 77 vulnerabilities, including two privilege escalation flaws actively exploited in the wild. The first vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-1132, affects the Win32k component and could be […]