Chrome 0-day exploit CVE-2019-13720 used in Operation WizardOpium

Recently, we caught a new unknown exploit for Chrome browser. We promptly reported this to the Google. After reviewing of the PoC we provided, the company confirmed there was a zero-day vulnerability and assigned it CVE-2019-13720. Continue reading Chrome 0-day exploit CVE-2019-13720 used in Operation WizardOpium

Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2018. Statistics

During the year, Kaspersky Lab solutions repelled 1 876 998 691 attacks launched from online resources located all over the world, 554 159 621 21 643 946 unique malicious objects were detected and unique URLs were recognized as malicious by web antivirus components. Continue reading Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2018. Statistics

Zero-day exploit (CVE-2018-8453) used in targeted attacks

Yesterday, Microsoft published their security bulletin, which patches CVE-2018-8453, among others. It is a vulnerability in win32k.sys discovered by Kaspersky Lab in August. Microsoft confirmed the vulnerability and designated it CVE-2018-8453. Continue reading Zero-day exploit (CVE-2018-8453) used in targeted attacks