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Researcher released PoC exploit code for CVE-2019-2215 Android zero-day flaw

Security Affairs

According to the expert, the bug was allegedly being used or sold by the controversial surveillance firm NSO Group. Maddie Stone published technical details and a proof-of-concept exploit for the high-severity security vulnerability, seven days after she reported it to the colleagues of the Android security team. “The

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APT trends report Q1 2021

SecureList

It was first publicly documented in 2014, in the aftermath of the Gamma Group hacking incident. On February 24, the National Security Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC) publicly warned that a threat actor had exploited a national documents circulation system (SEI EB) to distribute malicious documents to Ukrainian public authorities.

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Vulnerability Recap 7/8/24 – Intel, Cisco & More Face Risks

eSecurity Planet

Issues occurred from unsecure email verification and a defective parcel claim process that dates back to 2014. To improve security against side-channel attacks, securely use indirect branch predictor barrier (IBPB) and enhance the branch prediction unit (BPU) with more complicated tags, encryption, and randomization.

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