zero-Day

Pierluigi Paganini September 07, 2023
Apple discloses 2 new actively exploited zero-day flaws in iPhones, Macs

Apple rolled out emergency security updates to address two new actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities impacting iPhones and Macs. The two Apple zero-day vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2023-41064 and CVE-2023-41061, reside in the Image I/O and Wallet frameworks. CVE-2023-41064 is a buffer overflow issue that was reported by researchers from researchers at Citizen Lab. The IT giant […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 06, 2023
Google addressed an actively exploited zero-day in Android

Google released September 2023 Android security updates to address multiple flaws, including an actively exploited zero-day. Google released September 2023 Android security updates that address tens of vulnerabilities, including a zero-day flaw tracked as CVE-2023-35674 that was actively exploited in the wild. This high-severity vulnerability CVE-2023-35674 resides in the Framework component, a threat actor could […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 29, 2023
UNC4841 threat actors hacked US government email servers exploiting Barracuda ESG flaw

China-linked threat actors breached government organizations worldwide with attacks exploiting Barracuda ESG zero-day. In June, Mandiant researchers linked the threat actor UNC4841 to the attacks that exploited the recently patched Barracuda ESG zero-day vulnerability to China. “Through the investigation, Mandiant identified a suspected China-nexus actor, currently tracked as UNC4841, targeting a subset of Barracuda ESG […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 30, 2023
In 2022, more than 40% of zero-day exploits used in the wild were variations of previous issues

Google’s Threat Analysis Group Google states that more than 40% of zero-day flaws discovered in 2022 were variants of previous issues. The popular Threat Analysis Group (TAG) Maddie Stone wrote Google’s fourth annual year-in-review of zero-day flaws exploited in-the-wild [2021, 2020, 2019], it is built off of the mid-year 2022 review. In 2022, the researchers […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 20, 2023
Adobe out-of-band update addresses an actively exploited ColdFusion zero-day

Adobe released an emergency update to address critical vulnerabilities in ColdFusion, including an actively exploited zero-day. Adobe released an out-of-band update to address critical and moderate vulnerabilities in ColdFusion, including a zero-day flaw that is actively exploited in attacks.  The vulnerabilities could lead to arbitrary code execution and security feature bypass. The impacted ColdFusion versions are 2023, 2021 […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 11, 2023
Apple issued Rapid Security Response updates to fix a zero-day but pulled them due to a Safari bug

Apple released Rapid Security Response updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and Safari web browser to address an actively exploited zero-day. Apple has released Rapid Security Response updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and Safari web browser to address a zero-day flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-37450, that has been actively exploited in the wild. Tricking the victim into processing specially crafted web content may lead to […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 22, 2023
Apple addressed actively exploited zero-day flaws in iOS, macOS, and Safari

Apple rolled out security updates to address actively exploited zero-day flaws in iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and Safari. Apple addressed a set of vulnerabilities in iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and the Safari browser that were actively exploited in the wild. The IT giant addressed the zero-day vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2023-32434 and CVE-2023-32435, exploited as part […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 14, 2023
China-linked APT UNC3886 used VMware ESXi Zero-Day

A China-linked APT group tracked as UNC3886 has been spotted exploiting a VMware ESXi zero-day vulnerability. Mandiant researchers observed a China-linked cyberespionage group, tracked as UNC3886, exploiting a VMware ESXi zero-day vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-20867. “VMware Tools contains an Authentication Bypass vulnerability in the vgauth module.” reads the advisory published by VMware. “A fully compromised […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 06, 2023
Google fixed the third Chrome zero-day of 2023

Google released security updates to address a high-severity zero-day flaw in the Chrome web browser that it actively exploited in the wild. Google released security updates to address a high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-3079, in its Chrome web browser. The vulnerability is a type confusion issue that resides in the V8 JavaScript engine. The IT […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 22, 2023
CISA adds iPhone bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

US CISA added three zero-day vulnerabilities affecting iPhones, Macs, and iPads to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added three zero-day vulnerabilities affecting iPhones, Macs, and iPads to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. The three issues reside in the WebKit browser engine and are tracked as CVE-2023-32409, CVE-2023-28204, and CVE-2023-32373. Below […]