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An Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability has been discovered used in recent North Korean attacks against security and vulnerability researchers. Last month, Google disclosed that the North Korean state-sponsored hacking group known as Lazarus was conducting social engineering attacks against security Read More …
Google has released today version 88.0.4324.150 of the Chrome browser for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Today’s release contains only one bugfix for a zero-day vulnerability that was exploited in the wild. The zero-day, which was assigned the identifier of CVE-2021-21148, Read More …
Google has released a security update today for its Chrome web browser that patches ten security bugs, including one zero-day vulnerability that is currently actively exploited in the wild. Identified as CVE-2020-16009, the zero-day was discovered by Google’s Threat Analysis Read More …
Google released an update to its Chrome browser that patches a zero-day vulnerability in the software’s FreeType font rendering library that was actively being exploited in the wild. Security researcher Sergei Glazunov of Google Project Zero discovered the bug which Read More …
Trend Micro have already published findings on the SLUB malware’s past campaigns. In our latest research paper, we uncovered a recent watering hole campaign that involves a new variant of the malware. The threat, which we dubbed as such due Read More …
A vulnerability in Google’s Chromium-based browsers would allow attackers to bypass the Content Security Policy (CSP) on websites, in order to steal data and execute rogue code. The bug (CVE-2020-6519) is found in Chrome, Opera and Edge, on Windows, Mac Read More …
Browser security takes a hit as Google and Mozilla discontinue a large number of browser extensions and add-ons due to malicious activity. The Google security team has temporarily disallowed the publishing or updating of paid extensions that use the Chrome Web Store Read More …
FTCODE, a PowerShell-based ransomware that targets Italian-language users, has added new capabilities, including the ability to swipe saved web browser and email client credentials from victims. Samples of the ransomware, which has been around since 2013, were recently observed in September 2019. After further Read More …
Google Chrome is the latest browser to drop AVG and Avast extensions after reports of excessive data snooping. Back in October, a blog post from Wladimir Palant, founder and CTO at AdBlock Plus, highlighted that browser extensions created by the two security Read More …
Kaspersky Exploit Prevention is a component part of Kaspersky products that has successfully detected a number of zero-day attacks in the past. Recently, it caught a new unknown exploit for Google’s Chrome browser. We promptly reported this to the Google Read More …
