Google has released a patch for a zero day exploit in Google Chrome – the second zero day patched so far this year. Tracked as CVE-2022-1096, this High severity Type Confusion vulnerability was reported on 23rd March and a patch was released just 48 hours later. Google is aware that an exploit exists in the […]
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Earlier this month, the Vue.js JavaScript framework was subject to a supply chain attack via the npm ecosystem. The node-ipc package was sabotaged by its creator and was pulled into other people’s projects resulting in anti-war messages being displayed to users and, in some cases, data destruction. Node-ipc is a popular module used in the
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HP has issued two security advisories describing remote code execution and denial of service vulnerabilities that affect hundreds of different HP network printers. Remote code execution and buffer overflow Certain HP Print products and Digital Sending products may be vulnerable to potential remote code execution and buffer overflow with use of Link-Local Multicast Name Resolution
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When the LAPSUS$ ransomware group broke into the network of Nvidia, the data they stole included two code signing certificates which are now being used to sign malware to help it bypass security defences. In order to prove that an application or driver is genuine and really does come from the named developer, a digital
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Our monthly summary of recent important security patches includes updates from Microsoft and HP Microsoft Patch Tuesday March 2022 The March security updates from Microsoft address 71 security vulnerabilities, including several rated as critical or zero-day: Microsoft Exchange Server remote code execution vulnerability ( CVE-2022-23277) allowing an authenticated malicious user to run their code with admin
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Akamai has published details of a DDoS attack which generated more than 53 million packets per second by abusing misconfigured PBX VoIP gateways. Amplification DDoS attacks work by abusing systems which send large responses to small queries. Thus, an attacker can transmit a number of small requests which have the ‘reply-to’ address set to the
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A Linux kernel vulnerability dubbed ‘Dirty Pipe’ allows an attacker to change any file on the system – including read only files such as the password file. The flaw affects Linux Kernel 5.8 and later – including Android devices as well as mainstream Linux server distros. Tracked as CVE-2022-0847, the flaw in the way memory
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The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintains a list of known vulnerabilities that are the most commonly exploited by threat actors. At the start of March the list was extended by another 95 bugs including several critical Cisco vulnerabilities. The known exploited vulnerabilities catlog is part of the CISA’s Shields-Up initiative that provides
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The Russian attack on Ukraine is a new kind of war, being fought in cyber space as much as it is on the city streets of Ukraine. Microsoft reports that Ukrainian networks were targeted with FoxBlade malware several hours before the start of the invasion on the 24th February. Said Brad Smith, President & Vice
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Xenomorph is a new Android banking Trojan that targets at least 56 different European banks and was distributed through the Google Play store more than 50,000 times. The FastCleaner utility on Google Play (now removed by Google) claimed to offer its users a means to speed up their Android device by removing unused clutter and
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