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Microsoft is warning of critical zero-day flaws in its Windows operating system that could enable remote code execution. "Microsoft is aware of limited targeted attacks that could leverage unpatched vulnerabilities in the Adobe Type Manager Library, and is providing the following guidance to help reduce customer risk until the security update is released," according to a Monday Microsoft security advisory.

Microsoft is warning of critical zero-day flaws in its Windows operating system that could enable remote code execution. "Microsoft is aware of limited targeted attacks that could leverage unpatched vulnerabilities in the Adobe Type Manager Library, and is providing the following guidance to help reduce customer risk until the security update is released," according to a Monday Microsoft security advisory.

Cybercrime groups have been exploiting vulnerabilities in digital video recorders made by Taiwan-based surveillance solutions provider LILIN to increase the size of their botnets. The vendor released firmware updates that should patch the exploited flaws on February 14, but the vulnerabilities had a zero-day status until this date.

Trend Micro has fixed two actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in its Apex One and OfficeScan XG enterprise security products, and advises customers to update to the latest software versions as soon as possible. CVE-2020-8467, a critical flaw in the migration tool component of the two solutions that could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations.

UPDATE. A zero-day vulnerability has been disclosed in the IT help desk ManageEngine software made by Zoho Corp. The serious vulnerability enables an unauthenticated, remote attacker to launch attacks on affected systems. Zoho has now released a security update addressing the vulnerability.

UPDATE. A zero-day vulnerability has been disclosed in the IT help desk ManageEngine software made by Zoho Corp. The serious vulnerability enables an unauthenticated, remote attacker to launch attacks on affected systems. Zoho has now released a security update addressing the vulnerability.

Business tools development company Zoho says it's working on a patch for a zero-day vulnerability affecting its ManageEngine Desktop Central product. "Since Zoho typically ignores researchers, I figured it was OK to share a ManageEngine Desktop Central zero-day exploit with everyone," Seeley wrote on Twitter.

The vulnerability is the ability to register almost exact lookalike domain names. Simple attacks would attempt to register a domain using similar Latin characters - for example G00GLE.COM to look like GOOGLE.COM. The first example uses zeros rather than the correct letter Os; and a successfully registered lookalike domain would likely be used as a malicious phishing site.

A recently disclosed zero-day vulnerability in Zyxel network-attached storage devices also impacts over twenty of the vendor's firewalls. Earlier this week, Zyxel published an advisory on the vulnerability, revealing that it impacted over a dozen NAS devices, including ten that were no longer supported.

For the third time in a year, Google has fixed a Chrome zero-day that is being actively exploited by attackers in the wild. No details have been shared about the attacks and about the flaw itself, apart from the short description that says it's a type confusion flaw in V8, the JavaScript engine used by the Chrome browser.