Tag Archives: zerodays

“Highly capable” hackers root corporate networks by exploiting firewall 0-day

reader comments 14 Highly capable hackers are rooting multiple corporate networks by exploiting a maximum-severity zero-day vulnerability in a firewall product from Palo Alto Networks, researchers said Friday. The vulnerability, which has been under active exploitation for at least two weeks now, allows the hackers with no authentication to execute malicious code with root privileges,… Read More »

Agencies using vulnerable Ivanti products have until Saturday to disconnect them

Getty Images reader comments 13 Federal civilian agencies have until midnight Saturday morning to sever all network connections to Ivanti VPN software, which is currently under mass exploitation by multiple threat groups. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency mandated the move on Wednesday after disclosing three critical vulnerabilities in recent weeks. Three weeks ago,… Read More »

Actively exploited 0-days in Ivanti VPN are letting hackers backdoor networks

reader comments 3 Unknown threat actors are actively targeting two critical zero-day vulnerabilities that allow them to bypass two-factor authentication and execute malicious code inside networks that use a widely used virtual private network appliance sold by Ivanti, researchers said Wednesday. Ivanti reported bare-bones details concerning the zero-days in posts published on Wednesday that urged… Read More »

Hundreds of SugarCRM servers infected with critical in-the-wild exploit

reader comments 8 with 0 posters participating Share this story For the past two weeks, hackers have been exploiting a critical vulnerability in the SugarCRM (customer relationship management) system to infect users with malware that gives them full control of their servers. The vulnerability began as a zero-day when the exploit code was posted online… Read More »

0-days sold by Austrian firm used to hack Windows users, Microsoft says

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Microsoft said on Wednesday that an Austria-based company named DSIRF used multiple Windows and Adobe Reader zero-days to hack organizations located in Europe and Central America. Multiple news outlets have published articles like this one, which cited marketing materials and other evidence linking DSIRF to Subzero, a malicious toolset for “automated… Read More »

Code execution 0-day in Windows has been under active exploit for 7 weeks

reader comments 58 with 48 posters participating, including story author Share this story A critical code execution zero-day in all supported versions of Windows has been under active exploit for seven weeks, giving attackers a reliable means for installing malware without triggering Windows Defender and a roster of other endpoint protection products. The Microsoft Support… Read More »

Apple rushes out patches for two zero-days threatening iOS and macOS users

reader comments 41 with 32 posters participating, including story author Share this story Apple on Thursday released fixes for two critical zero-day vulnerabilities in iPhones, iPads, and Macs that give hackers dangerous access to the internals of the OSes the devices run on. Apple credited an anonymous researcher with discovering both vulnerabilities. The first vulnerability,… Read More »

iOS zero-day let SolarWinds hackers compromise fully updated iPhones

reader comments 55 with 26 posters participating Share this story The Russian state hackers who orchestrated the SolarWinds supply chain attack last year exploited an iOS zero-day as part of a separate malicious email campaign aimed at stealing Web authentication credentials from Western European governments, according to Google and Microsoft. In a post Google published… Read More »

This is not a drill: VMware vuln with 9.8 severity rating is under attack

reader comments 40 with 35 posters participating Share this story A VMware vulnerability with a severity rating of 9.8 out of 10 is under active exploitation. At least one reliable exploit has gone public, and there have been successful attempts in the wild to compromise servers that run the vulnerable software. The vulnerability, tracked as… Read More »

No, it doesn’t just crash Safari. Apple has yet to fix exploitable flaw

reader comments 35 with 25 posters participating, including story author Share this story Apple has yet to patch a security bug found in iPhones and Macs despite the availability of a fix released almost three weeks ago, a researcher said. The vulnerability resides in WebKit, the browser engine that powers Safari and all browsers that… Read More »