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Retrofitting Temporal Memory Safety on C++

Google Security

zero); Stop all application threads when the scan is running or scan the heap concurrently; Intercept memory writes (e.g. Concretely, a malicious actor may exploit a race condition with the scanning thread by moving a dangling pointer from an unscanned to an already scanned memory region. Pointers are also assigned a 4-bit tag.

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Crooks use HTML smuggling to spread QBot malware via SVG files

Security Affairs

. “SVG images are constructed using XML, allowing them to be placed within HTML using ordinary XML markup tags. Talos has identified malicious emails featuring HTML attachments with encoded SVG images that themselves contain HTML <script> tags. Including script tags within a SVG image is a legitimate feature of SVG.”

Malware 91
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Google announces V8 Sandbox to protect Chrome users

Security Affairs

. “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.” This is primarily because the compiler and runtime predominantly deal with V8 HeapObject instances.

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Accelerating incident response using generative AI

Google Security

For that, we first replaced long and noisy sections of codes/logs by self-closing tags ( and ) both to keep the structure while saving tokens for more important facts and to reduce risk of hallucinations.

Risk 98
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Google warns of APT28 attack attempts against 14,000 Gmail users

Security Affairs

Shane Huntley, the head of the Threat Analysis Group (TAG), wrote on Twitter that his group had sent an above-average batch of government-backed security warnings. . TAG sent a above average batch of government-backed security warnings yesterday. — Shane Huntley (@ShaneHuntley) October 7, 2021.

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Update Firefox and Thunderbird now! Mozilla patches several high risk vulnerabilities

Malwarebytes

CVE-2022-40960 : (High) Data-race when parsing non-UTF-8 URLs in threads. Concurrent use of the URL parser with non-UTF-8 data was not thread-safe. CVE-2022-3033 : (High) Leaking of sensitive information when composing a response to an HTML email with a META refresh tag. UTF-8 is an encoding system for Unicode characters.

Risk 77
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Anonymous Hacking Group Targets Russian Government

SecureWorld News

The following Twitter thread was posted yesterday: of the Anonymous collective, we can in fact report the truths of Anonymous' collective actions against the Russian Federation. Follow SecureWorld News to stay up to date on the latest developments in Ukraine (using the Russia-Ukraine tag below).