CyberSecure Specialist

Google has rushed to patch another Chrome zero-day vulnerability exploited by a commercial spyware vendor.  The internet giant announced on Tuesday that the stable channel of Chrome for Windows, macOS and Linux has been updated to version 117.0.5938.132. The latest update patches 10 vulnerabilities, three of which have been highlighted by the company in its advisory. The most important vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-5217, has been described as a “heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in…

Nearly all modern graphics processing units (GPUs) are vulnerable to a new type of side-channel attack that could be leveraged to obtain sensitive information, according to a team of researchers from various universities in the United States. The new attack method, named GPU.zip, was discovered and detailed by representatives of the University of Texas at Austin, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Washington, and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The GPU.zip attack leverages hardware-based graphical data compression,…

A stealthy advanced persistent threat (APT) actor known as Gelsemium has been observed targeting a government entity in Southeast Asia to establish persistence and collect intelligence, cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks reveals. As part of the observed activity, spanning over a period of six months in late 2022 and into 2023, the threat actor deployed a variety of web shells to support lateral movement and malware delivery, along with backdoors, a Cobalt Strike beacon, and…