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Google Chrome has released an emergency update to patch a critical severity vulnerability present in the Chrome desktop app. Microsoft have also alerted customers that the chromium-based browser Microsoft Edge also contains this vulnerability in both Windows and Mac versions of the desktop app. This has been given a high severity rating by Google andRead more

Malicious Android apps posing as file managers have been identified and removed from the Google Play Store recently after infecting tens of thousands of users with a SharkBot banking trojan. This is not the only time the Google Play Store has been in the news recently for distributing malicious apps of different types. At theRead more

A new ransomware tool called AXLocker is being used by attackers to encrypt files and steal Discord account tokens. A large community of cryptocurrency and NFT owners use Discord to connect with others who have a similar interest or portfolio. Discord uses authentication tokens which are saved to the computer when a user logs in,Read more

Two critical severity vulnerabilities have been identified in Atlassian products Crowd, and Bitbucket Server and Data Center. Security advisories were released by Atlassian for each product detailing the severity, affected versions, and mitigation steps. The Atlassian Crowd Server and Data Center vulnerability affects all versions released after Crowd 3.0.0, however version 3.0.0 itself is anRead more

A critical vulnerability is being exploited in Magento 2 and Adobe Commerce sites for online retailers. Attackers are sending trojan orders to the target website and are hiding their attacks by using the increase in online purchases around the time of Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales, and in the holiday shopping period in general.Read more

A Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory was released yesterday detailing the security vulnerabilities that have been fixed in the latest Firefox update. Firefox 107 contains security fixes to 8 high severity vulnerabilities that impact previous versions of this product. These include three use-after-free vulnerabilities in InputStream (CVE-2022-45405), JavaScript Realm (CVE-2022-45406), and Garbage Collection (CVE-2022-45409), and aRead more

This week was November’s patch Tuesday, where Microsoft issued a security update that resolved 68 different vulnerabilities, 6 of which were actively exploited zero-day flaws. A total of 11 vulnerabilities that have been patched this week have been given a critical severity rating, due to a possible exploit leading to elevation of privileges, spoofing, orRead more

The threats faced in cyber security are constantly evolving, with state actors taking part in cyber espionage, and cyber criminal groups creating paid-for campaigns and offering services for hire. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), a part of GCHQ, and the UK government’s technical authority for cyber security, have released their annual review for 2022Read more

A security advisory has been released by VMware this week detailing 5 security vulnerabilities that have been addressed in the recent update of VMware Workspace ONE Assist, a remote screen sharing and command execution tool used by help desk and IT staff. Three of these vulnerabilities have been assigned a critical severity rating, and aRead more

Two new high severity vulnerabilities have been identified in the OpenSSL Software Foundation cryptographic library version 3.0.0. This open-source library is used to encrypt HTTPS connections and other communication channels, so has been relied upon by many as a security measure. These new vulnerabilities could cause denial of service or possible remote code execution toRead more