Security News > 2024 > November > RomCom hackers chained Firefox and Windows zero-days to deliver backdoor
Russia-aligned APT group RomCom was behind attacks that leveraged CVE-2024-9680, a remote code execution flaw in Firefox, and CVE-2024-49039, an elevation of privilege vulnerability in Windows Task Scheduler, as zero-days earlier this year. “Chaining together two zero-day vulnerabilities armed RomCom with an exploit that requires no user interaction,” ESET researchers said. The campaign leveraging the zero-click exploit CVE-2024-9680 allowed the attackers to execute code in the restricted context of the browser and CVE-2024-49039 allowed it … More → The post RomCom hackers chained Firefox and Windows zero-days to deliver backdoor appeared first on Help Net Security.
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https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/11/26/romcom-backdoor-cve-2024-9680-cve-2024-49039/
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Related Vulnerability
| DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-11-12 | CVE-2024-49039 | Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft products Windows Task Scheduler Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability | 8.8 |
| 2024-10-09 | CVE-2024-9680 | Use After Free vulnerability in multiple products An attacker was able to achieve code execution in the content process by exploiting a use-after-free in Animation timelines. | 9.8 |