Written by Suzanne Smalley Apr 22, 2022 | CYBERSCOOP Mandiant said that its intelligence division has documented a surge in verified zero-day exploits over the course of the last year,…
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Zero-day exploits found and disclosed hit a record high in 2021, Google Project Zero says
Written by AJ Vicens Apr 19, 2022 | CYBERSCOOP Researchers at Google’s Project Zero said they tracked 58 cases of zero-day exploits “in the wild” in 2021 — the most…
Hospital hallway robots get patches for potentially serious bugs
Written by Joe Warminsky Apr 12, 2022 | CYBERSCOOP Rolling robots used at hospitals for a variety of tasks — including transporting medication — have been patched for five vulnerabilities…
Project Zero researchers see promising trends in vulnerability fixes
Written by AJ Vicens Feb 10, 2022 | CYBERSCOOP Big tech vendors generally are remediating serious bugs faster than they were three years ago, according to a new report from…
Relentless Log4j Attacks Include State Actors, Possible Worm
More than 1.8 million attacks, against half of all corporate networks, have already launched to exploit Log4Shell. Call it a “logjam” of threats: Attackers including nation-state actors have already targeted…
Log4j Looms Large Over Patch Tuesday
Log4j Looms Large Over Patch Tuesday IT teams knocked for six by a newly disclosed Log4j bug were forced to tackle a new patch load from Microsoft released yesterday, containing 67 new…
Microsoft December 2021 Patch Tuesday: Zero-day exploited to spread Emotet malware
Microsoft has released 67 security fixes for software including seven critical issues and a zero-day flaw being actively exploited by cybercriminals. In the Redmond giant’s latest round of patches, usually released…