Update Chrome now! Google patches actively exploited flaw

Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities

Categories: News

Tags: Google

Tags: Chrome zero-day

Tags: CVE-2023-2033

Tags: V8 flaw

Tags: V8

Google has released an updated version of Chrome to address a zero-day flaw that is being exploited in the wild.

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Massive malvertising campaign targets seniors via fake Weebly sites

Categories: Threat Intelligence

Tags: malvertising

Tags: weebly

Tags: google

Tags: ads

Tags: seniors

Tags: recipe

Tags: tech support

Tags: scam

Scammers are buying ads on for the most common Google searches made by seniors and defrauding them with tech support scams.

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Update now! April’s Patch Tuesday includes a fix for one zero-day

Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities

Categories: News

Tags: Microsoft

Tags: Apple

Tags: Google

Tags: Adobe

Tags: Cisco

Tags: SAP

Tags: Mozilla

Tags: CVE-2023-28252

Tags: CVE-2023-28231

Tags: CVE-2023-21554

Tags: Word

Tags: Publisher

Tags: Office

One fixed vulnerability is being actively exploited by a ransomware gang and many others were fixed in this month’s Patch Tuesday updates.

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A week in security (April 3 – 9)

Categories: News

Tags: TikTok

Tags: Super FabriXss

Tags: Twitter

Tags: macOS malware

Tags: ransomware

Tags: 2023 State of Malware

Tags: Western Digital

Tags: Android

Tags: endpoint security

Tags: ChatGPT

Tags: K-12

Tags: IoT

Tags: Facebook

Tags: targeted advertising

Tags: Google

Tags: data theft

Tags: e-file

Tags: tax

Tags: Uber breach

The most interesting security related news from the week of April 3 – 9.

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Tech bigwigs: Hit the brakes on AI rollouts

More than 1,100 technology luminaries, leaders, and scientists have issued a warning against labs performing large-scale experiments with artificial intelligence (AI) more powerful than ChatGPT, saying the technology poses a grave threat to humanity.

In an open letter published by Future of Life Institute, a nonprofit organization with the mission to reduce global catastrophic and existential risks to humanity, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk joined other signatories in agreeing AI poses “profound risks to society and humanity, as shown by extensive research and acknowledged by top AI labs.”

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Update Android now! Google patches three important vulnerabilities

Categories: Android

Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities

Categories: News

Tags: Google

Tags: Android

Tags: update

Tags: CVE-2023-21085

Tags: CVE-2023-21096

Tags: CVE-2022-38181

Tags: Use-after-free

Tags: input validation

Google has released an Android update that fixes two critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities, and one vulnerability that has been exploited in the wild.

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Smart home assistants at risk from “NUIT” ultrasound attack

Categories: News

Tags: ultrasound

Tags: NUIT

Tags: speakers

Tags: microphone

Tags: device

Tags: IoT

Tags: assistant

Tags: alexa

Tags: siri

Tags: google

Tags: silent

We take a look at research for an IoT attack called NUIT, capable of hijacking voice assistants via ultrasonic attack.

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