Sep 28, 2023The Hacker NewsBrowser Security / Cybersecurity The landscape of browser security has undergone significant changes over the past decade. While Browser Isolation was once considered the gold standard for protecting against browser exploits and malware downloads, it has become increasingly inadequate and insecure in today’s SaaS-centric world. The limitations of Browser Isolation, such […]
Sep 28, 2023THNMalware / Cyber Threat Government and telecom entities have been subjected to a new wave of attacks by a China-linked threat actor tracked as Budworm using an updated malware toolset. The intrusions, targeting a Middle Eastern telecommunications organization and an Asian government, took place in August 2023, with the adversary deploying an improved […]
Sep 28, 2023THNZero Day / Vulnerability Google on Wednesday rolled out fixes to address a new actively exploited zero-day in the Chrome browser. Tracked as CVE-2023-5217, the high-severity vulnerability has been described as a heap-based buffer overflow in the VP8 compression format in libvpx, a free software video codec library from Google and the Alliance […]
Sep 28, 2023THNZero Day / Vulnerability Google on Wednesday rolled out fixes to address a new actively exploited zero-day in the Chrome browser. Tracked as CVE-2023-5217, the high-severity vulnerability has been described as a heap-based buffer overflow in the VP8 compression format in libvpx, a free software video codec library from Google and the Alliance […]
Sep 27, 2023THNMalware / Cyber Attack A new threat actor known as AtlasCross has been observed leveraging Red Cross-themed phishing lures to deliver two previously undocumented backdoors named DangerAds and AtlasAgent. NSFOCUS Security Labs described the adversary as having a “high technical level and cautious attack attitude,” adding that “the phishing attack activity captured this […]
Sep 27, 2023THNVulnerability / Endpoint Security A novel side-channel attack called GPU.zip renders virtually all modern graphics processing units (GPU) vulnerable to information leakage. “This channel exploits an optimization that is data dependent, software transparent, and present in nearly all modern GPUs: graphical data compression,” a group of academics from the University of Texas at […]
Sep 27, 2023THNMalware / Cyber Threat A new malware strain called ZenRAT has emerged in the wild that’s distributed via bogus installation packages of the Bitwarden password manager. “The malware is specifically targeting Windows users and will redirect people using other hosts to a benign web page,” enterprise security firm Proofpoint said in a technical […]
Sep 27, 2023THNZero Day / Vulnerability Google has assigned a new CVE identifier for a critical security flaw in the libwebp image library for rendering images in the WebP format that has come under active exploitation in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2023-5129, the issue has been given the maximum severity score of 10.0 on the […]
Sep 26, 2023THNEndpoint Security / Password Microsoft is officially rolling out support for passkeys in Windows 11 today as part of a major update to the desktop operating system. The feature allows users to login to websites and applications without having to provide a username and password, instead relying on their device PIN or biometric […]