Volexity Catches Chinese Hackers Exploiting Ivanti VPN Zero-Days

Ivanti confirms active zero-day exploits, ships pre-patch mitigations, but says comprehensive fixes won’t be available until January 22.
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New iPhone Exploit Uses Four Zero-Days

Kaspersky researchers are detailing “an attack that over four years backdoored dozens if not thousands of iPhones, many of which belonged to employees of Moscow-based security firm Kaspersky.” It’s a zero-click exploit that makes use of four iPhone zero-days.

The most intriguing new detail is the targeting of the heretofore-unknown hardware feature, which proved to be pivotal to the Operation Triangulation campaign. A zero-day in the feature allowed the attackers to bypass advanced hardware-based memory protections designed to safeguard device system integrity even after an attacker gained the ability to tamper with memory of the underlying kernel. On most other platforms, once attackers successfully exploit a kernel vulnerability they have full control of the compromised system…

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Barracuda Zero-Day Used to Target Government, Tech Organizations in US, APJ

The new Barracuda ESG zero-day CVE-2023-7102 has been used by Chinese hackers to target organizations in the US and APJ region.
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Chinese Hackers Deliver Malware to Barracuda Email Security Appliances via New Zero-Day

Chinese hackers exploited a zero-day tracked as CVE-2023-7102 to deliver malware to Barracuda Email Security Gateway (ESG) appliances.
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Outlook Plays Attacker Tunes: Vulnerability Chain Leading to Zero-Click RCE

Akamai researchers document more vulnerabilities and patch bypasses leading to zero-click remote code execution in Microsoft Outlook.
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Email Security Flaw Found in the Wild

Google’s Threat Analysis Group announced a zero-day against the Zimbra Collaboration email server that has been used against governments around the world.

TAG has observed four different groups exploiting the same bug to steal email data, user credentials, and authentication tokens. Most of this activity occurred after the initial fix became public on Github. To ensure protection against these types of exploits, TAG urges users and organizations to keep software fully up-to-date and apply security updates as soon as they become available.

The vulnerability was discovered in June. It has been patched…

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