April 2020 – Page 13

Mozilla Patches Two Actively Exploited Firefox Zero-Days

Mozilla released Firefox 74.0.1 and Firefox ESR 68.6.1 earlier to address two critical vulnerabilities actively abused in the wild that could lead to remote code execution on vulnerable machines. […]

03 Apr

Microsoft: Emotet Took Down a Network by Overheating All Computers

Microsoft says that an Emotet infection was able to take down an organization’s entire network by maxing out CPUs on Windows devices and bringing its Internet connection down to a crawl after one employee was tricked to open a phishing email attachment. […]

03 Apr

Apple Paid $75K For Bugs Letting Sites Hijack iPhone Cameras

Apple has paid a $75,000 bug bounty to a security researcher who chained together three different exploits that could have allowed malicious web sites to use your iPhone camera and microphone without permission. […]

03 Apr

Zoom’s Web Client is Down, Users Report 403 Forbidden Errors

Zoom users are currently reporting that they are unable to use the Zoom web client or start and attend webinars, with reports saying that the web client is throwing ‘403 Forbidden’ errors. […]

02 Apr

New Coronavirus-Themed Malware Locks You Out of Windows

With school closed due to the Coronavirus pandemic, some kids are creating malware to keep themselves occupied. Such is the case with a variety of new MBRLocker variants being released, including one with a Coronavirus theme. […]

02 Apr

Twitter Reveals That Firefox Cached Private Data For Up to 7 Days

Twitter disclosed an issue in the way the Mozilla Firefox web browser cached data that may have lead to private media shared in DMs and data downloads being inadvertently stored in the browser’s cache. […]

02 Apr

WordPress Plugin Bug Can Be Exploited to Create Rogue Admins

Owners of WordPress sites who use the Contact Form 7 Datepicker plugin are urged to remove or deactivate it to prevent attackers from creating rogue admins or taking over admin sessions after exploiting an authenticated stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability. […]

02 Apr

Month: April 2020

Mozilla Patches Two Actively Exploited Firefox Zero-Days

Microsoft: Emotet Took Down a Network by Overheating All Computers

Apple Paid $75K For Bugs Letting Sites Hijack iPhone Cameras

Zoom’s Web Client is Down, Users Report 403 Forbidden Errors

New Coronavirus-Themed Malware Locks You Out of Windows

Twitter Reveals That Firefox Cached Private Data For Up to 7 Days

WordPress Plugin Bug Can Be Exploited to Create Rogue Admins

IRS Warns of Surge in Economic Stimulus Payment Scams

FBI Warns of Attacks on Remote Work, Distance Learning Platforms

How to Mitigate the Windows Font Parsing Zero-Day Bug via GPO