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Apple zero-day vulnerability exploited to target iPhone users (CVE-2025-24085)

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Apple zero-day vulnerability exploited to target iPhone users (CVE-2025-24085) 2025-01-28 at 13:18 By Zeljka Zorz Apple has shipped a fix for a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2025-24085) that is being leveraged by attackers against iPhone users. About CVE-2025-24085 CVE-2025-24085 is a use after free bug in CoreMedia, a framework used by Apple devices for the processing of […]

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SonicWall SMA appliances exploited in zero-day attacks (CVE-2025-23006)

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SonicWall SMA appliances exploited in zero-day attacks (CVE-2025-23006) 2025-01-23 at 11:03 By Zeljka Zorz A critical zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2025-23006) affecting SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 Series appliances is being exploited by attackers. “We strongly advises users of the SMA1000 product to upgrade to the hotfix release version to address the vulnerability,” the company said

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Microsoft fixes actively exploited Windows Hyper-V zero-day flaws

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Microsoft fixes actively exploited Windows Hyper-V zero-day flaws 2025-01-14 at 23:03 By Zeljka Zorz Microsoft has marked January 2025 Patch Tuesday with a hefty load of patches: 157 CVE-numbered security issues have been fixed in various products, three of which (in Hyper-V) are being actively exploited. The exploited Hyper-V vulnerabilities The exploited zero-days are CVE-2025-21333

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Fortinet fixes FortiOS zero-day exploited by attackers for months (CVE-2024-55591)

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Fortinet fixes FortiOS zero-day exploited by attackers for months (CVE-2024-55591) 2025-01-14 at 19:21 By Zeljka Zorz Fortinet has patched an authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2024-55591) affecting its FortiOS firewalls and FortiProxy web gateways that’s being exploited by attackers to compromise publicly-exposed FortiGate firewalls. While Fortinet acknowledged in-the-wild exploitation in the accompanying security advisory, they did share

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UK domain registry Nominet breached via Ivanti zero-day

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UK domain registry Nominet breached via Ivanti zero-day 2025-01-13 at 22:17 By Zeljka Zorz The number of internet-facing Ivanti Connect Secure instances vulnerable to attack via CVE-2025-0282 has fallen from 2,048 to 800 in the last four days, the Shadowserver Foundation shared today. In the meantime, UK domain registry Nominet became the first publicly known

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Ivanti Connect Secure zero-day exploited since mid-December (CVE-2025-0282)

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Ivanti Connect Secure zero-day exploited since mid-December (CVE-2025-0282) 2025-01-09 at 14:23 By Zeljka Zorz The zero-day attacks leveraging the Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) vulnerability (CVE-2025-0282) made public on Wednesday were first spotted in mid-December 2024, Mandiant researchers have shared. It’s still impossible to say whether they were mounted by a single threat actor, but the

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Serbian government used Cellebrite to unlock phones, install spyware

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Serbian government used Cellebrite to unlock phones, install spyware 2024-12-16 at 20:19 By Zeljka Zorz Serbian police and intelligence officers used Cellebrite forensic extraction software to unlock journalists’ and activists’ phones and install previously unknown Android spyware called NoviSpy, a new Amnesty International report claims. The unlocking was made possible through exploitation of a zero-day

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Microsoft fixes exploited zero-day (CVE-2024-49138)

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Microsoft fixes exploited zero-day (CVE-2024-49138) 2024-12-10 at 23:04 By Zeljka Zorz On December 2024 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft resolved 71 vulnerabilities in a variety of its products, including a zero-day (CVE-2024-49138) that’s been exploited by attackers in the wild to execute code with higher privileges. CVE-2024-49138 exploited by attackers CVE-2024-49138 stems from a heap-based buffer overflow

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Mitel MiCollab zero-day and PoC exploit unveiled

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Mitel MiCollab zero-day and PoC exploit unveiled 2024-12-05 at 16:32 By Zeljka Zorz A zero-day vulnerability in the Mitel MiCollab enterprise collaboration suite can be exploited to read files containing sensitive data, watchTowr researcher Sonny Macdonald has disclosed, and followed up by releasing a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit that chains together this zero-day file read vulnerability

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RomCom hackers chained Firefox and Windows zero-days to deliver backdoor

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RomCom hackers chained Firefox and Windows zero-days to deliver backdoor 2024-11-26 at 12:18 By Zeljka Zorz Russia-aligned APT group RomCom was behind attacks that leveraged CVE-2024-9680, a remote code execution flaw in Firefox, and CVE-2024-49039, an elevation of privilege vulnerability in Windows Task Scheduler, as zero-days earlier this year. “Chaining together two zero-day vulnerabilities armed

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Apple fixes 2 zero-days exploited to breach macOS systems (CVE-2024-44309, CVE-2024-44308)

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Apple fixes 2 zero-days exploited to breach macOS systems (CVE-2024-44309, CVE-2024-44308) 2024-11-20 at 12:50 By Zeljka Zorz Apple has released emergency security updates for macOS Sequoia that fix two zero-day vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-44309, CVE-2024-44308) that “may have been actively exploited on Intel-based Mac systems”. About CVE-2024-44309 and CVE-2024-44308 CVE-2024-44309 affects WebKit, the browser engine used in

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Attackers are exploiting 2 zero-days in Palo Alto Networks firewalls (CVE-2024-0012, CVE-2024-9474)

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Attackers are exploiting 2 zero-days in Palo Alto Networks firewalls (CVE-2024-0012, CVE-2024-9474) 2024-11-18 at 17:33 By Zeljka Zorz Palo Alto Networks has released fixes for two vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-0012 and CVE-2024-9474) in its next-generation firewalls that have been exploited by attackers as zero-days. About the vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-0012, CVE-2024-9474) CVE-2024-0012 stems from missing authentication for a critical

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Zero-days dominate top frequently exploited vulnerabilities

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Zero-days dominate top frequently exploited vulnerabilities 2024-11-14 at 07:03 By Mirko Zorz A joint report by leading cybersecurity agencies from the U.S., UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand has identified the most commonly exploited vulnerabilities of 2023. Zero-day vulnerabilities on the rise The advisory highlights that malicious cyber actors increasingly targeted zero-day vulnerabilities, posing significant

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Microsoft fixes actively exploited zero-days (CVE-2024-43451, CVE-2024-49039)

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Microsoft fixes actively exploited zero-days (CVE-2024-43451, CVE-2024-49039) 2024-11-12 at 23:03 By Zeljka Zorz November 2024 Patch Tuesday is here, and Microsoft has dropped fixes for 89 new security issues in its various products, two of which – CVE-2024-43451 and CVE-2024-49039 – are actively exploited by attackers. The exploited vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-43451, CVE-2024-49039) CVE-2024-43451 is yet another

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Patching problems: The “return” of a Windows Themes spoofing vulnerability

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Patching problems: The “return” of a Windows Themes spoofing vulnerability 2024-10-29 at 12:18 By Zeljka Zorz Despite two patching attempts, a security issue that may allow attackers to compromise Windows user’s NTLM (authentication) credentials via a malicious Windows themes file still affects Microsoft’s operating system, 0patch researchers have discovered. The path to discovery The story

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Fortinet FortiManager flaw exploited in zero-day attacks (CVE-2024-47575)

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Fortinet FortiManager flaw exploited in zero-day attacks (CVE-2024-47575) 2024-10-24 at 12:18 By Zeljka Zorz Fortinet has finally made public information about CVE-2024-47575, a critical FortiManager vulnerability that attackers have exploited as a zero-day. About CVE-2024-47575 CVE-2024-47575 is a vulnerability stemming from missing authentication for a critical function in FortiManager’s fgfmd daemon. Remote, unauthenticated attackers could

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Defenders must adapt to shrinking exploitation timelines

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Defenders must adapt to shrinking exploitation timelines 2024-10-16 at 15:16 By Zeljka Zorz A new report from Mandiant reveals that the average time-to-exploit vulnerabilities before or after a patch is released has plunged to just five days in 2023, down from 32 days in 2021 in 2022. One reason for this is the fact that,

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Microsoft patches two zero-days exploited in the wild (CVE-2024-43573, CVE-2024-43572)

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Microsoft patches two zero-days exploited in the wild (CVE-2024-43573, CVE-2024-43572) 2024-10-08 at 22:49 By Zeljka Zorz For October 2024 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released fixes for 117 security vulnerabilities, including two under active exploitation: CVE-2024-43573, a spoofing bug affecting the Windows MSHTML Platform, and CVE-2024-43572, a remote code execution flaw in the Microsoft Management Console

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Microsoft confirms second 0-day exploited by Void Banshee APT (CVE-2024-43461)

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Microsoft confirms second 0-day exploited by Void Banshee APT (CVE-2024-43461) 2024-09-16 at 15:46 By Zeljka Zorz CVE-2024-43461, a spoofing vulnerability affecting Windows MSHTML – a software component used by various apps for rendering render web pages on Windows – “was exploited as a part of an attack chain relating to CVE-2024-38112, prior to July 2024,”

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Microsoft fixes 4 exploited zero-days and a code defect that nixed earlier security fixes

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Microsoft fixes 4 exploited zero-days and a code defect that nixed earlier security fixes 2024-09-10 at 22:46 By Zeljka Zorz September 2024 Patch Tuesday is here and Microsoft has delivered 79 fixes, including those for a handful of zero-days (CVE-2024-38217, CVE-2024-38226, CVE-2024-38014, CVE-2024-43461) exploited by attackers in the wild, and a Windows 10 code defect

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