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Critical Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Found in These VMware Products
Broadcom has patched three actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion, discovered by Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence Center. The flaws, which were being leveraged in real-world...
Patch Tuesday: Microsoft’s January 2025 Security Update Patches Exploited Elevation of Privilege Attacks
Microsoft’s latest batch of security patches includes an expanded blacklist for certain Windows Kernel Vulnerable Drivers and fixes for several elevations of privilege vulnerabilities. The January 2025 Security...
Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Patches One Actively Exploited Vulnerability, Among Others
December brought a relatively mild Patch Tuesday, with one vulnerability having been actively exploited. Of all 70 vulnerabilities fixed, 16 were classified as critical.
“This year, cybersecurity professionals must...
US Sanctions Chinese Cybersecurity Firm for Ransomware Attack
The U.S. has sanctioned Sichuan Silence, a Chinese cybersecurity firm involved in ransomware attacks targeting critical infrastructure in 2020. One of its employees, Guan Tianfeng, has also been...
This Prompt Can Make an AI Chatbot Identify and Extract Personal Details From Your Chats
The researchers say that if the attack were carried out in the real world, people could be socially engineered into believing the unintelligible prompt might do something useful,...
Three Quarters of Dependency Vulnerability Patches Lead to Breakages, Report Finds
Patches deployed for dependency vulnerabilities cause breakages 75% of the time, a new report has revealed. Minor updates were found to break clients 94% of the time, and...
