Unknown Attacker Chains Chrome and Windows Zero-Days - Infosecurity Magazine
Kaspersky has branded the threat actor “PuzzleMaker”
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Vulnerabilities in Windows and Chrome Used in Series of Highly Targetted Attacks - IT News Africa - Up to date technology news, IT news, Digital news, Telecom news, Mobile news, Gadgets news, Analysis and Reports
In April, Kaspersky experts discovered a number of highly targeted attacks against multiple companies utilising a previously undiscovered chain of Google Chrome and Microsoft Windows zero-day exploits. One of the exploits was used for remote code execution in the Chrome web browser, while the other was an elevation of privilege exploit fine-tuned to target the […]
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Windows devices targeted by PuzzleMaker malware exploiting Chrome zero-day flaw
Researchers failed to find an exploit used for remote code execution (RCE) in Chrome but found and analyzed an elevation-of-privilege exploit used to escape the sandbox and obtain system privileges. As researchers didn't find the RCE in Chrome, they looked elsewhere and discovered a possible candidate. On April 12, Chromium developers committed two (issue 1196683, issue 1195777) Typer-related bug fixes to the open source repository of V8 — a JavaScript engine used by Chrome and Chromium web browsers. This was after a team in a Pwn2Own competition demonstrated successful exploitation of the ...
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