Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Google researchers have detailed a sophisticated hacking operation that exploited vulnerabilities in Chrome and Windows to install malware on Android and Windows devices. Some of the exploits were zero-days, meaning they targeted vulnerabilities that at the time were unknown to Google, Microsoft, and most outside researchers (both companies have since patched […]
Enlarge (credit: Zyxel) Hackers are attempting to exploit a recently discovered backdoor built into multiple Zyxel device models that hundreds of thousands of individuals and businesses use as VPNs, firewalls, and wireless access points. The backdoor comes in the form of an undocumented user account with full administrative rights that’s hardcoded into the device firmware, […]
Enlarge (credit: Traitov | Getty Images) 2020 was a tough year for a lot of reasons, not least of which were breaches and hacks that visited pain on end users, customers, and the organizations that were targeted. The ransomware menace dominated headlines, with an endless stream of compromises hitting schools, governments, and private companies as […]
Expand (charge: Apple) Three dozen journalists needed their iPhones murdered in July and August with what at the time was an iMessage zeroday harness which did not need the sufferers to take some actions to become infected, researchers stated. The exploit along with the payload it set up were created and marketed by NSO Group,” […]
Expand (credit: Getty Images) Cisco has patched its Jabber conferencing and messaging program against a crucial vulnerability which makes it easy for attackers to run malicious code which could spread from computer to computer with no user interaction needed. Again. The vulnerability, which has been revealed in September, ” was the consequence of many flaws […]
Expand (charge: GE Healthcare) Dozens of radiology goods from GE Healthcare include a vital vulnerability that simplifies the networks of physicians and other health providers which use the apparatus, officials in the US administration and a private security company said on Tuesday. The passwords are all readily available to anybody who understands where on the […]
Expand / This picture was that the profile banner {} of those reports supposedly run from the Internet Research Agency, the company that conducted social networking”impact campaigns” at Russia, Germany, Ukraine, and also the US dating back into 2009. (charge: An Russian troll) The National Security Agency states that Russian country hackers are sabotaging multiple […]
Expand (charge: Aurich Lawson) Android programs with countless millions of downloads are more exposed to attacks which enable malicious programs to steal contactsand contacts credentials, personal messages, and other sensitive details. Security company Check Point stated that the Edge Browser, the XRecorder movie and display recorder, as well as also the PowerDirector video editor will […]
Expand / / That is a Great Deal of display. Before this year, Apple patched among the most stunning iPhone vulnerabilities in history: some memory corruption bug at the iOS kernel which gave believers remote access to the full apparatus –on Wi-Fi, without any user interaction needed in any way. Oh, and whistles were wormable–significance […]
Expand (charge: Oracle) Attackers are targeting a newly patched Oracle WebLogic vulnerability which enables them to execute code of their own choice, such as malware which produces servers section of a botnet that steals passwords and other sensitive info. WebLogic is a Java enterprise application that supports many different databases. WebLogic servers really are an […]