Tag: exploit
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Google Warns of In the Wild Exploit as It Patches New Chrome Zero Day
A high severity vulnerability in Google Chrome and allows remote attackers to execute code First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/google-patches-new-in-wild-chrome/
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Sicherheitslücke im Browser: Attacken auf Chrome-Nutzer beobachtet
Eine gefährliche Sicherheitslücke lässt Angreifer Schadcode in Chrome einschleusen. Es reicht der Besuch einer speziell gestalteten Webseite. First seen on golem.de Jump to article: www.golem.de/news/sicherheitsluecke-im-browser-attacken-auf-chrome-nutzer-beobachtet-2602-205443.html
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Google fixes first actively exploited Chrome zero-day of 2026
Google patched Chrome zero-day CVE-2026-2441, a high-severity CSS use-after-free flaw actively exploited in the wild. Google has released urgent security updates to address a high-severity zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-2441, in Chrome that is already being exploited in real-world attacks. The flaw is a use-after-free bug in the browser’s CSS component. This is the first…
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Google patches Chrome vulnerability with inwild exploit (CVE-2026-2441)
Google released a security update for Chrome to address a high-severity zero”‘day vulnerability (CVE-2026-2441) on Friday. >>Google is aware that an exploit for … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/02/16/google-patches-chrome-vulnerability-with-in-the-wild-exploit-cve-2026-2441/
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Hackers Exploit ‘Summarize with AI’ Feature to Inject Malicious Prompts into AI Recommendations
Hackers and marketers are increasingly abusing “Summarize with AI” buttons and AI-share links to quietly plant persistent instructions in AI assistants’ memory, a growing attack trend Microsoft calls AI Recommendation Poisoning. By silently biasing what assistants “remember” as trusted or preferred sources, these attacks can warp recommendations on high”‘impact topics like health, finance, and security without…
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Configuration Manager: Hacker attackieren verbreitetes Microsoft-Admin-Tool
Der von vielen IT-Admins genutzte Microsoft Configuration Manager steht unter Beschuss. Auf ungepatchten Systemen lässt sich Schadcode einschleusen. First seen on golem.de Jump to article: www.golem.de/news/configuration-manager-hacker-attackieren-verbreitetes-microsoft-admin-tool-2602-205431.html
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Google patches first Chrome zero-day exploited in attacks this year
Google has released emergency updates to fix a high-severity Chrome vulnerability exploited in zero-day attacks, marking the first such security flaw patched since the start of the year. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-patches-first-chrome-zero-day-exploited-in-attacks-this-year/
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10 years later, Bangladesh Bank cyberheist still offers cyber-resiliency lessons
Tags: access, ai, application-security, attack, automation, backdoor, banking, ceo, cisco, ciso, compliance, control, credentials, crypto, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data-breach, defense, detection, endpoint, exploit, finance, fintech, firewall, framework, infrastructure, intelligence, international, malware, monitoring, network, north-korea, oracle, password, risk, service, software, theft, threat, tool, vulnerabilitySecurity shortcomings: Adrian Cheek, senior cybercrime researcher at threat exposure management firm Flare, said the Bangladesh Bank heist was possible because of a number of security shortcomings, including a failure to air gap critical infrastructure.”The Bank of Bangladesh had four servers and the same number of desktops connected to SWIFT,” Cheek says. “This infrastructure, however,…
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Google Chrome Fixes Actively Exploited CVE-2026-2441 Bug
A critical security vulnerability, CVE-2026-2441, has prompted an urgent out-of-band update for Google Chrome after confirmation that the flaw is being actively exploited. The Hong Kong Computer Emergency Response Team (HKCERT) alerted users to the flaw on 16 February 2026. First seen on thecyberexpress.com Jump to article: thecyberexpress.com/cve-2026-2441-google-chrome/
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New Chrome Zero-Day (CVE-2026-2441) Under Active Attack, Patch Released
Google on Friday released security updates for its Chrome browser to address a security flaw that it said has been exploited in the wild.The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-2441 (CVSS score: 8.8), has been described as a use-after-free bug in CSS. Security researcher Shaheen Fazim has been credited with discovering and reporting the shortcoming on…
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ZeroDayRAT Exploit Targets Android iOS, Enabling Real-Time Surveillance and Massive Data Theft
A newly surfaced mobile spyware platform called ZeroDayRAT is rapidly gaining traction across underground Telegram channels. ZeroDayRAT is designed to give attackers complete remote control over both Android and iOS devices, supporting versions from Android 5 through 16 and iOS up to version 26, including the latest iPhone 17 Pro. The panel interface allows the operator to manage multiple infected devices worldwide as…
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Don’t panic over CISA’s KEV list, use it smarter
In this Help Net Security video, Tod Beardsley, VP of Security Research at runZero, explains what CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog is and how security … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/02/16/cisa-kev-catalog-video/
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Attackers Exploit Critical BeyondTrust Flaw to Seize Full Active Directory Control
Tags: access, control, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, kev, remote-code-execution, vulnerabilityA critical vulnerability, CVE-2026-1731, affecting self-hosted BeyondTrust Remote Support and Privileged Remote Access deployments. This security flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to inject operating system commands, effectively granting them remote code execution capabilities. The severity of this campaign has prompted the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to add the flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities…
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Chrome 0-Day Enables Remote Code Execution in Ongoing Campaign
Google has released an urgent security update for the Chrome desktop web browser to address a severe high-severity vulnerability that is currently being exploited in the wild. The search giant rolled out the fix on Friday, updating the Stable channel to version 145.0.7632.75/.76 for Windows and macOS users, and version 144.0.7559.75 for Linux users. This…
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NDSS 2025 Diffence: Fencing Membership Privacy With Diffusion Models
Session 12C: Membership Inference Authors, Creators & Presenters: PAPER Yuefeng Peng (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Ali Naseh (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Amir Houmansadr (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Deep learning models, while achieving remarkable performances across various tasks, are vulnerable to membership inference attacks (MIAs), wherein adversaries identify if a specific data point was part of…
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NDSS 2025 Diffence: Fencing Membership Privacy With Diffusion Models
Session 12C: Membership Inference Authors, Creators & Presenters: PAPER Yuefeng Peng (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Ali Naseh (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Amir Houmansadr (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Deep learning models, while achieving remarkable performances across various tasks, are vulnerable to membership inference attacks (MIAs), wherein adversaries identify if a specific data point was part of…
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Week in review: Exploited newly patched BeyondTrust RCE, United Airlines CISO on building resilience
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: United Airlines CISO on building resilience when disruption is inevitable In … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/02/15/week-in-review-exploited-newly-patched-beyondtrust-rce-united-airlines-ciso-on-building-resilience/
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U.S. CISA adds a flaw in BeyondTrust RS and PRA to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a flaw in BeyondTrust RS and PRA to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added an BeyondTrust RS and PRA vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-1731 (CVSS score of 9.9), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. This week BeyondTrust released security updates to…
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U.S. CISA adds a flaw in BeyondTrust RS and PRA to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a flaw in BeyondTrust RS and PRA to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added an BeyondTrust RS and PRA vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-1731 (CVSS score of 9.9), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. This week BeyondTrust released security updates to…
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One threat actor responsible for 83% of recent Ivanti RCE attacks
Tags: attack, cve, endpoint, exploit, intelligence, ivanti, mobile, rce, remote-code-execution, threat, vulnerabilityThreat intelligence observations show that a single threat actor is responsible for most of the active exploitation of two critical vulnerabilities in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM), tracked as CVE-2026-21962 and CVE-2026-24061. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/one-threat-actor-responsible-for-83-percent-of-recent-ivanti-rce-attacks/
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Critical BeyondTrust RS vulnerability exploited in active attacks
remote access.exe and others.”The attackers also managed to create domain accounts using the net user command and then added them to administrative groups such as “enterprise admins” or “domain admins.”The AdsiSearcher tool was used to search the Active Directory environment for other computers and PSexec was used to install SimpleHelp on multiple devices.The researchers also…
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Attackers finally get around to exploiting critical Microsoft bug from 2024
As if admins haven’t had enough to do this week First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/02/13/critical_microsoft_bug_from_2024/
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Researchers unearth 30-year-old vulnerability in libpng library
Tags: advisory, ai, cvss, exploit, flaw, network, open-source, ransomware, software, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, zero-daypng_set_quantize, which is used for reducing the number of colors in PNG images, and present in all versions of libpng prior to version 1.6.55.”When the function is called with no histogram and the number of colours in the palette is more than twice the maximum supported by the user’s display, certain palettes will cause the…
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Critical flaw in BeyondTrust Remote Support sees early signs of exploitation
The vulnerability is a variant of a CVE linked to the 2024 hack of the U.S. Treasury Department, according to researchers. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/critical-flaw-beyondtrust-remote-support-early-exploitation/812215/
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Microsoft Under Pressure to Bolster Defenses for BYOVD Attacks
Threat actors are exploiting security gaps to weaponize Windows drivers and terminate security processes in targeted networks, and there may be no easy fixes in sight. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/application-security/microsoft-under-pressure-defenses-byovd-attacks
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Microsoft Under Pressure to Bolster Defenses for BYOVD Attacks
Threat actors are exploiting security gaps to weaponize Windows drivers and terminate security processes in targeted networks, and there may be no easy fixes in sight. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/application-security/microsoft-under-pressure-defenses-byovd-attacks
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Four new reasons why Windows LNK files cannot be trusted
Hidden command-line arguments: Beyond target spoofing, Beukema demonstrated a technique for hiding malicious command-line instructions behind legitimate executables. LNK files can launch trusted Windows binaries while passing attacker-controlled instructions through embedded arguments, enabling “living-off-the-land” (LOLBINs) execution without pointing directly to malware.According to the researcher, this can be done by manipulating the input passed into certain…
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CISA orders federal agencies to patch exploited SolarWinds, Apple, Microsoft bugs within weeks
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added ten new vulnerabilities to its catalog of exploited bugs this week, forcing all federal civilian agencies to resolve the issues by the first week of March. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/cisa-orders-federal-agencies-to-patch-solarwinds-microsoft-apple-bugs