Amazon Web Services (AWS) has resolved a cross-tenant vulnerability in its platform that could be weaponized by an attacker to gain unauthorized access to resources. The issue relates to a confused deputy problem, a type of privilege escalation where a program that doesn’t have permission to perform an action can coerce a more-privileged entity to […]
An emergency Chrome update that Google announced on Thanksgiving Day addresses an actively exploited zero-day in the popular browser. Tracked as CVE-2022-4135, the high-severity vulnerability is described as a heap buffer overflow in Chrome’s GPU component. “Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2022-4135 exists in the wild,” the internet giant notes. A National Vulnerability […]
Google has just patched Chrome’s eighth zero-day hole of the year so far. Zero-days are bugs for which there were zero days you could have updated proactively… …because cybercriminals not only found the bug first, but also figured out how to exploit it for nefarious purposes before a patch was prepared and published. So, the […]
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Google seeks to make Cobalt Strike useless to attackersGoogle Cloud’s intelligence research and applications team has created and released a collection of 165 YARA rules to help defenders flag Cobalt Strike components deployed by attackers. Fake subscription invoices lead to […]
For 6 months, the infamous Emotet botnet has shown almost no activity, and now it’s distributing malicious spam. Let’s dive into details and discuss all you need to know about the notorious malware to combat it. Why is everyone scared of Emotet? Emotet is by far one of the most dangerous trojans ever created. The […]
US authorities announced a ban Friday on the import or sale of communications equipment deemed “an unacceptable risk to national security” — including gear from Chinese giants Huawei Technologies and ZTE. Both firms have been on a roster of companies listed as a threat by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and the new rules bar […]
These days, most of us have telephones that display the number that’s calling before we answer. This “feature” actually goes right back to the 1960s, and it’s known in North American English as Caller ID, although it doesn’t actually identify the caller, just the caller’s number. Elsewhere in the English-speaking world, you’ll see the name […]
The Bahamut APT group distributes at least eight malicious apps that pilfer victims’ data and monitor their messages and conversations This week, ESET researchers published their analysis of a malicious campaign where the Bahamut APT group targets Android users via trojanized versions of two legitimate VPN apps – SoftVPN and OpenVPN. Since January 2022, Bahamut […]
The APT group DefrayX appears to have launched a new version of its RansomExx malware, rewritten in the Rust programming language — possibly to avoid detection by antivirus software. According to IBM Security X-Force Threat researchers, that evasion may be successful, at least for now. IBM reported that one sample that it analyzed “was not detected […]
Google on Thursday released software updates to address yet another zero-day flaw in its Chrome web browser. Tracked as CVE-2022-4135, the high-severity vulnerability has been described as a heap buffer overflow in the GPU component. Clement Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has been credited with reporting the flaw on November 22, 2022. Heap-based […]