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Microsoft has released security updates for the month of April 2024 to remediate a record 149 flaws, two of which have come under active exploitation in the wild. Of the 149 flaws, three are rated...

Microsoft has fixed two actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities during the April 2024 Patch Tuesday, although the company failed to initially tag them as such. "Just as we did in 2022, we immediately reported our findings to the Microsoft Security Response Center. After validating our discovery, the team at Microsoft has added the relevant files to its revocation list," Budd said.

On this April 2024 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has fixed a record 147 CVE-numbered vulnerabilities, including CVE-2024-29988, a vulnerability that Microsoft hasn't marked as exploited, but Peter Girnus, senior threat researcher with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative, has found being leveraged by attackers in the wild. Microsoft has fixed 24 vulnerabilities that may allow attackers to bypass Windows Secure Boot, a security feature that aims to prevent malware from loading when PCs boot up.

Google has fixed another zero-day vulnerability in the Chrome browser, which was exploited by security researchers during the Pwn2Own hacking contest last month. One week ago, Google fixed two more Chrome zero-days exploited at Pwn2Own Vancouver 2024.

Google has disclosed that two Android security flaws impacting its Pixel smartphones have been exploited in the wild by forensic companies. The high-severity zero-day vulnerabilities are as...

Google has fixed two Google Pixel zero-days exploited by forensic firms to unlock phones without a PIN and gain access to the data stored within them. While the April 2024 security bulletin for Android didn't contain anything severe, the corresponding April 2024 bulletin for Pixel devices disclosed active exploitation of two vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2024-29745 and CVE-2024-29748 flaws.

2023 saw attackers increasingly focusing on the discovery and exploitation of zero-day vulnerabilities in third-party libraries and drivers, as they can affect multiple products and effectively offer more possibilities for attack. Another interesting conclusion from Google's recent rundown of the 97 zero-days exploited in-the-wild in 2023 is that there's a notable increase in targeting enterprise-specific technologies.

Google fixed seven security vulnerabilities in the Chrome web browser on Tuesday, including two zero-days exploited during the Pwn2Own Vancouver 2024 hacking competition. Google fixed the two zero-days in the Google Chrome stable channel, version 123.0.6312.86/.87 for Windows and Mac and 123.0.6312.86 for Linux users, which will roll out worldwide over the coming days.

Zero-day exploits targeting enterprise-specific software and appliances are now outpacing zero-day bugs overall, according to Google's threat hunting teams. While 61 of the 97 zero-days affected end-user products last year, this number isn't increasing as rapidly as its enterprise counterparts.

Google's Threat Analysis Group and Google subsidiary Mandiant said they've observed a significant increase in the number of zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in attacks in 2023, many of them linked to spyware vendors and their clients. Among these, the FIN11 threat group exploited three separate zero-day vulnerabilities, while at least four ransomware groups exploited another four zero-days.