In the last month of the year, MySQL has been flooded by a set of zero-day exploits. This set was revealed by Kingcope and he has published proof-of-concept (POCs) for all these vulnerabilities.The newly discovered set of 0-days affects MySQL in multiple ways, such as application crash/denial of service, privilege escalation, authentication bypass, remote root […]
An unpatched critical security vulnerability in Microsoft’s software is being actively exploited by cybercriminals. The exploit allows what’s known as a drive-by install: you can become infected simply by visiting a website with Internet Explorer.Alongside last week’s regular Patch Tuesday announcement (including a remote code execution vulnerability that is being exploited by attackers in the […]
Cybercriminals are always looking for new ways to infect systems – ideally without being noticed until it’s too late. The sky is the limit for their creativity, as the latest wave of malicious boot loaders shows. The kit has been pioneered by Brazilian Trojan bankers who aim to remove security software. This non-traditional infection only […]
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