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A new advanced persistent threat (APT) has been behind a string of attacks against hotels across the world, along with governments, international organizations, engineering companies, and law firms. Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET codenamed the cyber espionage group FamousSparrow, which it said has been active since at least August 2019, with victims located across Africa, Asia, Europe, the
Google on Friday rolled out an emergency security patch to its Chrome web browser to address a security flaw that's known to have an exploit in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2021-37973, the vulnerability has been described as use after free in Portals API, a web page navigation system that enables a page to show another page as an inset and "perform a seamless transition to a new state, where the<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheHackersNews/~4/PwebSfuRgtQ" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>
Network security company SonicWall has addressed a critical security vulnerability affecting its Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 100 series appliances that can permit remote, unauthenticated attackers to gain administrator access on targeted devices remotely. Tracked as CVE-2021-20034, the arbitrary file deletion flaw is rated 9.1 out of a maximum of 10 on the CVSS scoring system, and could allow an<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheHackersNews/~4/XZ03V3AHhdQ" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>
A new advanced persistent threat (APT) has been behind a string of attacks against hotels across the world, along with governments, international organizations, engineering companies, and law firms. Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET codenamed the cyber espionage group FamousSparrow, which it said has been active since at least August 2019, with victims located across Africa, Asia, Europe, the<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheHackersNews/~4/NimfalfF25s" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>
Apple on Thursday released security updates to fix multiple security vulnerabilities in older versions of iOS and macOS that it says have been detected in exploits in the wild, in addition to expanding patches for a previously plugged security weakness abused by NSO Group's Pegasus surveillance tool to target iPhone users. <!--adsense--> Chief among them is CVE-2021-30869, a type confusion flaw<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheHackersNews/~4/bSQnUNeQEDM" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a novel technique adopted by a threat actor to deliberately evade detection with the help of malformed digital signatures of its malware payloads. "Attackers created malformed code signatures that are treated as valid by Windows but are not able to be decoded or checked by OpenSSL code — which is used in a number of security scanning products," Google<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheHackersNews/~4/A0oFzthS174" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>
A new as-yet unpatched weakness in Apple's iCloud Private Relay feature could be circumvented to leak users' true IP addresses from iOS devices running the latest version of the operating system. Introduced as a beta with iOS 15, which was officially released this week, iCloud Private Relay aims to improve anonymity on the web by employing a dual-hop architecture that effectively shields users'<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheHackersNews/~4/s4zOAPnxFu8" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>
Networking equipment company Netgear has released patches to remediate a high-severity remote code execution vulnerability affecting multiple routers that could be exploited by remote attackers to take control of an affected system. <!--adsense--> Traced as CVE-2021-40847 (CVSS score: 8.1), the security weakness impacts the following models - R6400v2 (fixed in firmware version 1.0.4.120) R6700<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheHackersNews/~4/RMNDc21JRlo" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>
Networking equipment maker Cisco Systems has rolled out patches to address three critical security vulnerabilities in its IOS XE network operating system that remote attackers could potentially abuse to execute arbitrary code with administrative privileges and trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition on vulnerable devices. The list of three flaws is as follows - CVE-2021-34770 (CVSS score:<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheHackersNews/~4/2UFqPvKE-Fw" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>
Security researchers have disclosed an unpatched weakness in Microsoft Windows Platform Binary Table (WPBT) affecting all Windows-based devices since Windows 8 that could be potentially exploited to install a rootkit and compromise the integrity of devices. "These flaws make every Windows system vulnerable to easily-crafted attacks that install fraudulent vendor-specific tables," researchers<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheHackersNews/~4/AhpTI3xcGPs" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>