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Google Warns of Internet Explorer Zero-Day Vulnerability Exploited by ScarCruft Hackers

An Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability was actively exploited by a North Korean threat actor to target South Korean users by capitalizing on the recent Itaewon Halloween crowd crush to trick users into downloading malware. The discovery, reported by Google Threat Analysis Group researchers Benoît Sevens and Clément Lecigne, is the latest set of attacks perpetrated by ScarCruft, which is

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GHSA-43fp-rhv2-5gv8: Certifi removing TrustCor root certificate

Certifi 2022.12.07 removes root certificates from "TrustCor" from the root store. These are in the process of being removed from Mozilla's trust store. TrustCor's root certificates are being removed pursuant to an investigation prompted by media reporting that TrustCor's ownership also operated a business that produced spyware. Conclusions of Mozilla's investigation can be found [here](https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-security-policy/c/oxX69KFvsm4/m/yLohoVqtCgAJ).

Don’t Sell Your Laptop Without Following These Steps

By Owais Sultan Before selling or trading in your laptop, it is important to prepare the device for its new owner as this will help ensure all of your personal data remains safe. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Don’t Sell Your Laptop Without Following These Steps

CVE-2022-23491: concerns about Trustcor

Certifi is a curated collection of Root Certificates for validating the trustworthiness of SSL certificates while verifying the identity of TLS hosts. Certifi 2022.12.07 removes root certificates from "TrustCor" from the root store. These are in the process of being removed from Mozilla's trust store. TrustCor's root certificates are being removed pursuant to an investigation prompted by media reporting that TrustCor's ownership also operated a business that produced spyware. Conclusions of Mozilla's investigation can be found in the linked google group discussion.

Android Serves Up a Slew of Security Updates, 4 Critical

Out of more than 80 flaws fixed this month, the most critical was a system component bug that could allow RCE over Bluetooth.

RHSA-2022:8847: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2.4 (protobuf) security update

An update for protobuf is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2.4 (Train). Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original. Related CVEs: * CVE-2021-22570: protobuf: Incorrect parsing of nullchar in the proto symbol leads to Nullptr dereference

Apple Expands End-to-End Encryption to iCloud Backups

The company will also soon support the use of physical authentication keys with Apple ID, and is adding contact verification for iMessage in 2023.

Scammers Are Scamming Other Scammers Out of Millions of Dollars

On cybercrime forums, user complaints about being duped may accidentally expose their real identities.

Piiano Equips Developers to Stop Sensitive Data Breaches

Data protection company Piiano officially launches a vault for sensitive customer data, the first among a suite of privacy tools for developers.