Defenders must adapt to shrinking exploitation timelines
A new report from Mandiant reveals that the average time-to-exploit vulnerabilities before or after a patch is released has plunged to just five days in 2023, down from 32 …
Microsoft patches two zero-days exploited in the wild (CVE-2024-43573, CVE-2024-43572)
For October 2024 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released fixes for 117 security vulnerabilities, including two under active exploitation: CVE-2024-43573, a spoofing bug …
Ivanti fixes three CSA zero-days exploited in the wild (CVE-2024-9379, CVE-2024-9380, CVE-2024-9381)
Ivanti has patched three additional Cloud Service Appliance (CSA) zero-day flaws, which have been exploited by attackers in conjuction with a zero-day bug the company …
Microsoft confirms second 0-day exploited by Void Banshee APT (CVE-2024-43461)
CVE-2024-43461, a spoofing vulnerability affecting Windows MSHTML – a software component used by various apps for rendering web pages on Windows – “was …
Microsoft fixes 4 exploited zero-days and a code defect that nixed earlier security fixes
September 2024 Patch Tuesday is here and Microsoft has delivered 79 fixes, including those for a handful of zero-days (CVE-2024-38217, CVE-2024-38226, CVE-2024-38014, …
Versa Director zero-day exploited to compromise ISPs, MSPs (CVE-2024-39717)
Advanced, persistent attackers have exploited a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2024-39717) in Versa Director to compromise US-based managed service providers with a custom-made …
New Chrome zero-day actively exploited, patch quickly! (CVE-2024-7971)
A new Chrome zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2024-7971) exploited by attackers in the wild has been fixed by Google. About CVE-2024-7971 CVE-2024-7971 is a high-severity …
0-day in Windows driver exploited by North Korean hackers to deliver rootkit (CVE-2024-38193)
CVE-2024-38193, an actively exploited zero-day that Microsoft patched earlier this month, has been leveraged by North Korean hackers to install a rootkit on targets’ …
Microsoft fixes 6 zero-days under active attack
August 2024 Patch Tuesday is here, and Microsoft has delivered fixes for 90 vulnerabilities, six of which have been exploited in the wild as zero-days, and four are publicly …
Unpatched MS Office flaw may leak NTLM hashes to attackers (CVE-2024-38200)
A new MS Office zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2024-38200) can be exploited by attackers to grab users’ NTLM hashes, Microsoft has shared late last week. The vulnerability …
“0.0.0.0-Day” vulnerability affects Chrome, Safari and Firefox
A “0.0.0.0-Day” vulnerability affecting Chrome, Safari and Firefox can be – and has been – exploited by attackers to gain access to services on …
“Perfect” Windows downgrade attack turns fixed vulnerabilities into zero-days
A researcher has developed a downgrade attack that can make Windows machines covertly, persistently and irreversibly vulnerable, even if they were fully patched before that. A …