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Zero-Day Exploits Cheat Sheet: Definition, Examples & How It Works
2024-06-21 18:00

Highlights Zero-day exploits are vulnerabilities in software or hardware that are unknown to the vendor or developer, so there is no patch or fix available at the time of their discovery. The most infamous cases of zero-day exploits include the MOVEit and Stuxnet vulnerabilities.

Kraken Crypto Exchange Hit by $3 Million Theft Exploiting Zero-Day Flaw
2024-06-19 16:40

Crypto exchange Kraken revealed that an unnamed security researcher exploited an "extremely critical" zero-day flaw in its platform to steal $3 million in digital assets and refused to return...

Google Warns of Pixel Firmware Security Flaw Exploited as Zero-Day
2024-06-13 07:08

Google has warned that a security flaw impacting Pixel Firmware has been exploited in the wild as a zero-day. The high-severity vulnerability, tagged as CVE-2024-32896, has been described as an...

Ransomware crew may have exploited Windows make-me-admin bug as a zero-day
2024-06-12 22:10

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Google patches exploited Android zero-day on Pixel devices
2024-06-12 19:06

Google added a new CVE ID to track the Pixel fix for CVE-2024-29748, a vulnerability exploited by several forensics companies, as BleepingComputer reported in April. "It's fixed on Pixels with the June update and will be fixed on other Android devices when they eventually update to Android 15. If they don't update to Android 15, they probably won't get the fix, since it has not been backported. Not all patches are backported."

Google warns of actively exploited Pixel firmware zero-day
2024-06-12 19:06

Google has released patches for 50 security vulnerabilities impacting its Pixel devices and warned that one of them had already been exploited in targeted attacks as a zero-day. Google tagged 44 other security bugs in this month's Pixel update bulletin, seven of which are privilege escalation vulnerabilities considered critical and impact various subcomponents.

Black Basta Ransomware May Have Exploited MS Windows Zero-Day Flaw
2024-06-12 11:11

Threat actors linked to the Black Basta ransomware may have exploited a recently disclosed privilege escalation flaw in the Microsoft Windows Error Reporting Service as zero-day, according to new...

Black Basta ransomware gang linked to Windows zero-day attacks
2024-06-12 10:00

The Black Basta ransomware operation is suspected of exploiting a Windows privilege escalation vulnerability as a zero-day before a fix was made available. A report by Symantec says that CVE-2024-26169 has been actively exploited by the Cardinal cybercrime group, the operators of the Black Basta gang, noting that there's a good chance it was leveraged as a zero-day.

Arm Warns of Actively Exploited Zero-Day Vulnerability in Mali GPU Drivers
2024-06-11 06:37

Arm is warning of a security vulnerability impacting Mali GPU Kernel Driver that it said has been actively exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2024-4610, the use-after-free issue impacts the...

TikTok confirms CNN, other high-profile accounts hijacked via zero-day vulnerability
2024-06-05 21:45

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