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Massive DDoS attack brought down 25% Iranian Internet connectivity

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The N etBlocks internet observatory, which tracks disruptions and shutdowns, observed yesterday (February 8, 2019) a massive outage of the country’s connectivity to the Internet. local time (08:15 UTC) affecting cellular and fixed-line operators. Confirmed: Internet partially shut down #Iran from 11:45 a.m.

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Zero-day vulnerability in Android OS yet to be patched

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The high-severity zero-day issue resides in the driver for the Video For Linux 2 (V4L2) interface. ” The vulnerability resides in the way the Video for Linux (V4L2) driver handles input data, it could be exploited by an attacker to elevate permissions to kernel level.

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Infecting Canon EOS DSLR camera with ransomware over the air

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” states the post published by the expert, who shared the following video PoC. Itkin successfully tested his exploit code for the CVE-2019-5998 flaw and achieved code execution over a USB connection. Below the disclosure timeline: 31 March 2019 – Vulnerabilities were reported to Canon. ” – Eyal Itkin.

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Comodo Antivirus is affected by several vulnerabilities

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The most severe flaw, tracked as CVE=2019-3969, could be exploited by an attacker with access to the target system to escape the Comodo Antivirus sandbox and escalate privileges to SYSTEM. Wells also published a Proof-of-concept exploit code on GitHub and a video PoC for the flaw.

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