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Hackers get $886,250 for 49 zero-days at Pwn2Own Automotive 2025
The Pwn2Own Automotive 2025 hacking contest has ended with security researchers collecting $886,250 after exploiting 49 zero-days. Throughout the event, they targeted automotive software and products, including electric vehicle (EV) chargers, car operating systems (i.e., Android Automotive OS, Automotive Grade Linux, and BlackBerry QNX), and in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems. According to the Pwn2Own Tokyo 2025 contest rules, all devices targeted ran…
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Critical zero-days impact premium WordPress real estate plugins
The RealHome theme and the Easy Real Estate plugins for WordPress are vulnerable to two critical severity flaws that allow unauthenticated users to gain administrative privileges. Although the two flaws were discovered in September 2024 by Patchstack, and multiple attempts were made to contact the vendor (InspiryThemes), the researchers say they have not received a response. Also, Patchstack says the…
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Firefox and Windows zero-days exploited by Russian RomCom hackers
Russian-based RomCom cybercrime group chained two zero-day vulnerabilities in recent attacks targeting Firefox and Tor Browser users across Europe and North America. The first flaw (CVE-2024-9680) is a use-after-free bug in Firefox’s animation timeline feature that allows code execution in the web browser’s sandbox. Mozilla patched this vulnerability on October 9, 2024, one day after ESET reported it. The second…
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Apple fixes two zero-days used in attacks on Intel-based Macs
Apple released emergency security updates to fix two zero-day vulnerabilities that were exploited in attacks on Intel-based Mac systems. “Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been exploited,” the company said in an advisory issued on Tuesday. The two bugs were found in the macOS Sequoia JavaScriptCore (CVE-2024-44308) and WebKit (CVE-2024-44309) components of macOS. The JavaScriptCore CVE-2024-44308 flaw allows…
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Google fixes two Android zero-days used in targeted attacks
Google fixed two actively exploited Android zero-day flaws as part of its November security updates, addressing a total of 51 vulnerabilities. Tracked as CVE-2024-43047 and CVE-2024-43093, the two issues are marked as exploited in limited, targeted attacks. “There are indications that the following may be under limited, targeted exploitation,” says Google’s advisory. The CVE-2024-43047 flaw is a high-severity use-after-free issue…
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Synology hurries out patches for zero-days exploited at Pwn2Own
Synology, a Taiwanese network-attached storage (NAS) appliance maker, patched two critical zero-days exploited during last week’s Pwn2Own hacking competition within days. Midnight Blue security researcher Rick de Jager found the critical zero-click vulnerabilities (tracked together as CVE-2024-10443 and dubbed RISK:STATION) in the company’s Synology Photos and BeePhotos for BeeStation software. As Synology explains in security advisories published two days after the…
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70% of exploited flaws disclosed in 2023 were zero-days
Google Mandiant security analysts warn of a worrying new trend of threat actors demonstrating a better capability to discover and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities in software. Specifically, of the 138 vulnerabilities disclosed as actively exploited in 2023, Mandiant says 97 (70.3%) were leveraged as zero-days. This means that threat actors exploited the flaws in attacks before the impacted vendors knew of…
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September’s Patch Tuesday update fixes 4 zero-days – Computerworld
Windows Update and Installer. Windows Hyper-V. Windows Kernel and Graphics (GDI). Microsoft MSHTML and Mark of the Web. Remote Desktop (RDP) and TCP/IP subsystems. The real concern is that three of these vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-38014, CVE-2024-38217, CVE-2024-43491 have been reported as exploited. In addition, another reported vulnerability in the Windows HTML subsystem (CVE-2024-38217) has been reported as publicly disclosed. Given these four zero-days,…
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