Month: August 2024

Google has rolled out security fixes to address a high-severity security flaw in its Chrome browser that it said has come under active exploitation in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2024-7971, the vulnerability has been described as a type confusion bug in the V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine. “Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to […]

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Monday announced the disruption of online infrastructure associated with a nascent ransomware group called Radar/Dispossessor. The effort saw the dismantling of three U.S. servers, three United Kingdom servers, 18 German servers, eight U.S.-based criminal domains, and one German-based criminal domain. Dispossessor is said to be led by […]

LAS VEGAS —  SafeBreach Labs researcher Alon Leviev is calling urgent attention to major gaps in Microsoft’s Windows Update architecture, warning that malicious hackers can launch software downgrade attacks that make the term “fully patched” meaningless on any Windows machine in the world.  During a closely watched presentation at the Black Hat conference today in […]

A team of researchers from the Graz University of Technology in Austria has published a paper on SLUBStick, a new Linux kernel exploitation technique that can make heap vulnerabilities more dangerous. The researchers noted that while the number of Linux kernel flaws has significantly increased in the past years, many issues have limited impact. Software […]