Zero-days for hacking WhatsApp are now worth millions of dollars

Thanks to improvements in security mechanisms and mitigations, hacking cell phones — both running iOS and Android — has become an expensive endeavor. That’s why hacking techniques for apps like WhatsApp are now worth millions of dollars, TechCrunch has learned. Read More …

Update on MOVEit Transfer SQL Injection Vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-34362, CVE-2023-35036 and CVE-2023-35708

Unit 42 researchers have added additional information on CVE-2023-34362, CVE-2023-35036 and CVE-2023-35708 vulnerabilities using data gathered from Advanced Threat Prevention. On May 31, Progress Software posted a notification alerting customers of a critical Structured Query Language injection (SQLi) vulnerability (CVE-2023-34362) Read More …

CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog

CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2023-5217 Google Chrome libvpx Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability These types of vulnerabilities are frequent attack vectors for malicious cyber actors and pose Read More …

CISA Releases Three Industrial Control Systems Advisories

CISA released three Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on September 28, 2023. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS. ICSA-23-271-01 Rockwell Automation PanelView 800 Read more… Source: U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Read More …

10 new vulnerabilities disclosed by Talos, including use-after-free issue in Google Chrome

Cisco Talos disclosed 10 vulnerabilities over the past two weeks affecting a range of software, including the popular Google Chrome web browser. Attackers could exploit these vulnerabilities to carry out a variety of attacks, in some cases gaining the ability Read More …

CISA Releases Six Industrial Control Systems Advisories

CISA released six Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on September 26, 2023. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS. ICSA-23-269-01 Suprema BioStar 2 ICSA-23-269-02 Hitachi Energy Asset Suite 9 ICSA-23-269-03 Mitsubishi Electric FA Read More …

Emergency update: Apple patches three zero-days

Apple has released security updates for several products to address a handful of zero-day vulnerabilities that may already have been used by criminals. Updates are available for: iOS 16.7 and iPadOS 16.7 iOS 17.0.1 and iPadOS 17.0.1 watchOS 9.6.3 watchOS Read More …

CISA Releases Six Industrial Control Systems Advisories

CISA released six Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on September 21, 2023. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS. ICSA-23-264-01 Real Time Automation 460 Series ICSA-23-264-02 Siemens Spectrum Power 7 ICSA-23-264-03 Delta Electronics Read More …

CISA Releases Four Industrial Control Systems Advisories

CISA released four Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on September 19, 2023. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS. ICSA-23-262-01 Siemens SIMATIC PCS neo Administration Console ICSA-23-262-03 Omron Engineering Software Zip-Slip Read more… Read More …

ThemeBleed exploit is another reason to patch Windows quickly

Included in the September 2023 Patch Tuesday updates was a fix for a vulnerability which has been dubbed ThemeBleed. A Proof-of-Concept (PoC) exploit has been released by Gabe Kirkpatrick, one of the researchers acknowledged for reporting the vulnerability. The Common Read More …