#zero_day

By Deeba Ahmed Previously, when the group exploited LinkedIn, it managed to pilfer a staggering $625 million from the Ronin Network (RON) blockchain network. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Lazarus APT Exploiting LinkedIn to Target Spanish Aerospace Firm

By Deeba Ahmed Chinese hackers have struck again! This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Chinese Hackers Stole 60,000 US State Department Emails from Microsoft

Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities Categories: News Google has updated its Chrome Stable Channel to fix, among other things, an actively exploited vulnerability (Read more...) The post Update Chrome now! Google patches another actively exploited vulnerability appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

By Waqas Ensure Your Chrome Browser Is Up to Date and Secure: Enable Automatic Updates to Safeguard Against Cybersecurity Threats This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Critical Chrome Update Counters Spyware Vendor’s Exploits

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 from Google and the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia). Exploitation of such buffer overflow flaws can

### Impact This vulnerability affects deployments of Imageflow that involve decoding or processing malicious source .webp files. If you only process your own trusted files, this should not affect you (but you should update anyway). Imageflow relies on Google's [libwebp] library to decode .webp images, and is affected by the recent zero-day out-of-bounds write vulnerability [CVE-2023-4863](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-4863) and https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j7hp-h8jx-5ppr. The libwebp vulnerability also affects Chrome, Android, macOS, and other consumers of the library). libwebp patched [the vulnerability](https://github.com/webmproject/libwebp/commit/2af26267cdfcb63a88e5c74a85927a12d6ca1d76 ) and released [1.3.2](https://github.com/webmproject/libwebp/releases/tag/v1.3.2) This was patched in [libwebp-sys in 0.9.3 and 0.9.4](https://github.com/NoXF/libwebp-sys/commits/master) **[Imageflow v2.0.0-preview8](https://github.com/imazen/imageflow/releases/tag/v2.0.0-p...

This Metasploit module takes advantage of a bug in the way Windows error reporting opens the report parser. If you open a report, Windows uses a relative path to locate the rendering program. By creating a specific alternate directory structure, we can coerce Windows into opening an arbitrary executable as SYSTEM. If the current user is a local admin, the system will attempt impersonation and the exploit will fail.

By Deeba Ahmed JetBrains has fixed this flaw in version 2023.05.4 of the product released on September 18. It also released a security advisory but didn't disclose technical details of the vulnerability for now. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: JetBrains Patches Severe TeamCity Flaw Allowing RCE and Server Hijacking

Categories: Android Categories: Apple Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities Tags: Pegasus Tags: spyware Tags: nso Tags: webp Tags: libwebp Tags: buffer overflow The company behind the infamous Pegasus spyware used a vulnerability in almost every browser to plant their malware on victim's devices. (Read more...) The post Pegasus spyware and how it exploited a WebP vulnerability appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

By Deeba Ahmed Student Data Managing Platform National Student Clearinghouse Confirmed MOVEit Hack Affected 900 US Schools. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 900 U.S. Schools Hit by MOVEit Hack, Exposing Student Data