Cybersecurity

Mozilla Patches Firefox Vulnerability Allowing Remote Code Execution, Sandbox Escape

Mozilla on Tuesday announced security updates for both Firefox and Thunderbird, to address 20 vulnerabilities, including several memory safety issues. Firefox 121 was released with patches for 18 vulnerabilities, five of which have a ‘high’ severity rating. At the top of the list is CVE-2023-6856, a heap buffer overflow bug in WebGL, the JavaScript API […]

Cybersecurity

SimSpace raises $45M to simulate tech stacks for cyber training | TechCrunch

SimSpace, a startup that creates digital replicas of organizations’ tech and networking stacks for cybersecurity training, has raised $45 million in a funding round led by L2 Point Management. Bringing the company’s total raised to $70 million, the investment comes at an auspicious time for SimSpace, which had been entirely bootstrapped until about two years […]

Cybersecurity

Hackers Exploiting Old MS Excel Vulnerability to Spread Agent Tesla Malware

Dec 21, 2023NewsroomVulnerability / Phishing Attack Attackers are weaponizing an old Microsoft Office vulnerability as part of phishing campaigns to distribute a strain of malware called Agent Tesla. The infection chains leverage decoy Excel documents attached in invoice-themed messages to trick potential targets into opening them and activate the exploitation of CVE-2017-11882 (CVSS score: 7.8), […]