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Google researchers have detailed a major hacking campaign that was detected in early 2020, which mounted a series of sophisticated attacks, some using zero-day flaws, against Windows and Android platforms. Working together, researchers from Google Project Zero and the Google Read More …
Microsoft addressed 10 critical bugs, one under active exploit and another publicly known, in its January Patch Tuesday roundup of fixes. In total it patched 83 vulnerabilities. The most serious bug is a flaw in Microsoft’s Defender anti-malware software that Read More …
For more than five years, macOS users have been the targets of a sneaky malware operation that used a clever trick to avoid detection and hijacked the hardware resources of infected users to mine cryptocurrency behind their backs. Named OSAMiner, Read More …
The United States Judiciary has announced an audit into its systems, following concerns its case file system has been compromised. In making the announcement, the Judiciary said the Administrative Office of the US Courts was working with the Department of Read More …
Nvidia has released a round of security fixes tackling high-severity issues in the Nvidia GPU display driver and vGPU software. Released on Thursday, the technology giant said the patches deal with issues that “may lead to denial of service, escalation Read More …
A free micropatch fixing a local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in Microsoft’s Windows PsExec management tool is now available through the 0patch platform. PsExec is a fully interactive telnet-replacement that allows system admins to execute programs on remote systems. PsExec Read More …
A feature that allows Telegram users to see who’s nearby can be misused to pinpoint your exact distance to other users – by spoofing one’s latitude and longitude. According to bug-hunter Ahmed Hassan, the “People Nearby” feature could allow an Read More …
More than 100,000 Zyxel firewalls, VPN gateways, and access point controllers contain a hardcoded admin-level backdoor account that can grant attackers root access to devices via either the SSH interface or the web administration panel. The backdoor account, discovered by Read More …
Flash Player will reach its end of life (EOL) on January 1, 2021, after always being a security risk to those who have used it over the years. Over the years, multiple zero-day and critical vulnerabilities [1, 2, 3, 4] Read More …
The Digital Footprint Intelligence Service announces the results of research on the digital footprints of governmental, financial and industrial organizations for countries in the Middle East region: Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Read More …