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Google announces V8 Sandbox to protect Chrome users

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“In particular, neither switching to a memory safe language , such as Rust, nor using current or future hardware memory safety features, such as memory tagging , can help with the security challenges faced by V8 today.” As such, existing memory safety solutions are, for the most part, not applicable to V8.”

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Google warned 12K+ users targeted by state-sponsored hackers

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Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) revealed that it has detected and blocked attacks carried out by nation-state actors on 12,000 of its users in the third quarter of this year. ” reads the report published by Google TAG.”We SecurityAffairs – Google TAG, state-sponsored hacking). Pierluigi Paganini.

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CISA adds ownCloud and Google Chrome bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Skia is an open-source 2D graphics library that provides common APIs that work across a variety of hardware and software platforms. The fact that the issue was discovered by Google TAG suggests it was exploited by a nation-state actor or by a surveillance firm.

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[Full-Disclosure] HideezKey 2 FAIL: How a good idea turns into a SPF (Security Product Failure)

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To give you a quick overview of this piece of hardware, check out their video intro: Now that you got the point of this product. Passive Recon & OSINT: First of all (even without attempting to open the token) we can immediately notice our best-hardware-hacking-friend: the FCC ID. And here it comes the #Hideez Key 2 ! meh…).

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Google addressed the sixth Chrome Zero-Day vulnerability in 2023

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Skia is an open-source 2D graphics library that provides common APIs that work across a variety of hardware and software platforms. The fact that the issue was discovered by Google TAG suggests it was exploited by a nation-state actor or by a surveillance firm. The CVE-2023-5217 is a high-severity integer overflow in Skia.

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In 2022, more than 40% of zero-day exploits used in the wild were variations of previous issues

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The popular Threat Analysis Group (TAG) Maddie Stone wrote Google’s fourth annual year-in-review of zero-day flaws exploited in-the-wild [ 2021 , 2020 , 2019 ], it is built off of the mid-year 2022 review. ” reads the report published by Google TAG.

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30 Docker images downloaded 20M times in cryptojacking attacks

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.” The researchers pointed out that container registries allow users to upgrade their images and also upload a new tag to the registry. Tags are used to reference different versions of the same image. “The cloud presents big opportunities for cryptojacking attacks.

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