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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 […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 19, 2019
Mozilla fixed a Firefox Zero-Day flaw exploited in targeted attacks

Mozilla released security updates for Firefox that addressed a critical zero-day vulnerability exploited in targeted attacks in the wild. Mozilla released security updates for its Firefox web browser that address a critical vulnerability that has been actively exploited in the wild. The zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-11707, is a type confusion flaw in Array.pop. Mozilla has addressed […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 06, 2019
0patch experts released unofficial Patch Available for Recent Windows 10 Task Scheduler Zero-Day

Experts at 0patch released an unofficial patch to address a recently disclosed zero-day vulnerability in Windows 10 Task Scheduler.  Security experts at 0patch released an unofficial patch to address a recently disclosed zero-day vulnerability in Windows 10 Task Scheduler.  A couple of weeks ago, researcher SandboxEscaper released a working exploit for the vulnerability, Like the […]