Items tagged with 0-day

by Nathan Ord - Thu, Apr 15, 2021

Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge Browsers Vulnerable To This New Zero-Day Flaw

Issues within Chromium, the engine behind Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge, have been popping up left and right lately. That trend is not set to end any time soon, it seems, as a new zero-day Chromium vulnerability has been found with a working proof of concept posted to GitHub. Yesterday, Twitter user Frust posted... Read more...

by Nathan Ord - Sat, Oct 31, 2020

Google Project Zero Discloses Nasty Windows 0-Day Security Exploit Already In The Wild

Google’s Project Zero team, which is tasked with discovering 0-day vulnerabilities, has uncovered an exploit in the Windows kernel that can lead to sandbox escape or privilege escalation. The bug, given CVE-2020-17087, is of the buffer overflow type in the Windows Kernel Cryptography Driver (CNG.sys) and is being... Read more...

by Joel Hruska - Tue, Oct 14, 2014

Russian Hackers Use SandWorm Windows Zero-Day Exploit To Compromise NATO, EU, US Education, Ukraine

Zero-day exploits are a nightmare for end-users and vendors alike as both groups have to scramble to patch and resolve problems. Today, Microsoft got tagged with one of the worst types of disclosures -- not only is there a vulnerability in every single shipping version of Windows, the vulnerability has been exploited... Read more...