Oct 03, 2023THNZero Day / Vulnerability Chipmaker Qualcomm has released security updates to address 17 vulnerabilities in various components, while warning that three other zero-days have come under active exploitation. Of the 17 flaws, three are rated Critical, 13 are rated High, and one is rated Medium in severity. “There
Sep 28, 2023THNZero Day / Vulnerability Google on Wednesday rolled out fixes to address a new actively exploited zero-day in the Chrome browser. Tracked as CVE-2023-5217, the high-severity vulnerability has been described as a heap-based buffer overflow in the VP8 compression format in libvpx, a free software video codec library
Jun 23, 2023Ravie LakshmananThreat Intel / Endpoint Security The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) on Thursday released guidance to help organizations detect and prevent infections of a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) bootkit called BlackLotus. To that end, the agency is recommending that “infrastructure owners take action by hardening user
Jun 22, 2023Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Endpoint Security Apple on Wednesday released a slew of updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and Safari browser to address a set of flaws it said were actively exploited in the wild. This includes a pair of zero-days that have been weaponized in a mobile
Jun 20, 2023Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Data Security Zyxel has rolled out security updates to address a critical security flaw in its network-attached storage (NAS) devices that could result in the execution of arbitrary commands on affected systems. Tracked as CVE-2023-27992 (CVSS score: 9.8), the issue has been described as a
Jun 20, 2023Ravie LakshmananNetwork Security / Vulnerability Taiwanese company ASUS on Monday released firmware updates to address, among other issues, nine security bugs impacting a wide range of router models. Of the nine security flaws, two are rated Critical and six are rated High in severity. One vulnerability is currently
Jun 14, 2023Ravie LakshmananPatch Tuesday / Vulnerability Microsoft has rolled out fixes for its Windows operating system and other software components to remediate major security shortcomings as part of Patch Tuesday updates for June 2023. Of the 73 flaws, six are rated Critical, 63 are rated Important, two are rated
Apr 15, 2023Ravie LakshmananZero-Day / Browser Security Google on Friday released out-of-band updates to resolve an actively exploited zero-day flaw in its Chrome web browser, making it the first such bug to be addressed since the start of the year. Tracked as CVE-2023-2033, the high-severity vulnerability has been described as
Apr 08, 2023Ravie LakshmananZero-Day / Endpoint Security Apple on Friday released security updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and Safari web browser to address a pair of zero-day flaws that are being exploited in the wild. The two vulnerabilities are as follows – CVE-2023-28205 – A use after free issue in
Feb 28, 2023Ravie LakshmananRansomware / Malware Romanian cybersecurity company Bitdefender has released a free universal decryptor for a nascent file-encrypting malware known as MortalKombat. MortalKombat is a new ransomware strain that emerged in January 2023. It’s based on a commodity ransomware dubbed Xorist and has been observed in attacks targeting