Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Second try's a charm?

Second try's a charm? Microsoft and the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned that attackers are exploiting a zero-click Windows flaw that can expose sensitive information on vulnerable systems.…

PLUS: Fake ransomware group exposed; EC blesses Google's big Wiz deal; Alleged sewage hacker cuffed; And more Infosec in Brief The former General Manager of defense contractor L3Harris’s cyber subsidiary Trenchant sold eight zero-day exploit kits to Russia, according to a court filing last week.…

Ukraine’s CERT says the bug went from disclosure to active exploitation in days Russia-linked attackers are already exploiting Microsoft's latest Office zero-day, with Ukraine's national cyber defense team warning that the same bug is being used to target government agencies inside the country and organizations across the EU.…

A few weeks earlier 'zeroplayer' advertised an $80K WinRAR 0-day exploit Russia-linked attackers found and exploited a high-severity WinRAR vulnerability before the maintainers of the Windows file archiver issued a fix.…

Single click on a phishing link in Google browser blew up sandbox on Windows Google pushed out an emergency patch for Chrome on Windows this week to stop attackers exploiting a sandbox-breaking zero-day vulnerability, seemingly used by snoops to target certain folks in Russia.…

With this zero-day, researchers say the 'scrappy' group is stepping up its operations The Winter Vivern cyber spy group is exploiting an XSS zero-day vulnerability in attacks on European governments.…

<h4>Clearly no need for leet zero-day hax when you can spearphish and exploit months-old vulnerabilities</h4> <p>A two-year campaign by state-sponsored Russian entities to siphon information from US defense contractors worked, it is claimed.…</p>