Google and industry partners have dismantled the XCPE malware botnet consisting of more than 1.3 million Android TV streaming TV boxes that Google says its manufacturer intentionally infected with malware to generate revenue through cybercrime activities. [...]
Serial number: AV26-1109 Date: November 2, 2026 As of October 29, 2026, Google is affected by vulnerabilities in the following product: Stable Channel Chrome for Desktop Versions prior to 156.0.8078.79/.80 (Windows/Mac), and 156.0.8078.79 (Linux) The Cyber Centre encourages users and administrators to review the provided web link and apply any necessary updates as they become available. Google Chrome Security Advisory
Introduction Last week, Google and industry partners dismantled the XCPE backdoor which enrolled more than 1.3 million set-top boxes into a botnet. We assess with high confidence that the backdoor and botnet were intentionally developed, deployed, and operated for financial gain by Videostrong Technology Co., an Android Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) and Original Device Manufacturer (ODM). Videostrong monetized the backdoor by selling access to criminal affiliates and loading those…
VOLTA is a mature stealer implant with an optional AI-integration layer. After stealing credentials, sessions, and cryptocurrency wallets, VOLTA sends a structured evidence bundle to an LLM to rank the victim’s assets by monetization value. If a model refuses to perform the target assessment, VOLTA fails over to a three-model chain, implying a direct engineering effort and expectation of hitting model guardrails. This stealer is self-deleting, and there is no attacker-owned infrastructure. The…
Ads promoted browser extensions as tools to find manuals, convert PDFs, or make searches safer. But many of these extensions sent users’ search queries through servers controlled by their operators. Socket researcher John Tuckner identified 319 extensions with an estimated 13.4 million installs over a decade. The extensions hijacked users’ default search settings and routed their searches through servers controlled by the operators before sending them to Yahoo or Bing. This gave the operators…
Google ha rilasciato un aggiornamento per il browser Chrome al fine di correggere 21 nuove vulnerabilità di sicurezza, di cui una con gravità “critica” e 19 con gravità “alta”. Tali vulnerabilità, qualora sfruttate, potrebbero consentire a un attaccante remoto di accedere a informazioni sensibili, compromettere la disponibilità del servizio, eludere i meccanismi di sicurezze ed eseguire codice arbitrario sui sistemi interessati.
Une vulnérabilité a été découverte dans Stormshield Management Center. Elle permet à un attaquant de provoquer une exécution de code arbitraire à distance.
Serial number: AV26-1095 Date: October 28, 2026 As of October 27, 2026, Google is affected by vulnerabilities in the following product: Stable Channel Chrome for Desktop Versions prior to 156.0.8078.73/.74 (Windows/Mac), and 156.0.8078.73 (Linux) The Cyber Centre encourages users and administrators to review the provided web link and apply any necessary updates as they become available. Google Chrome Security Advisory
On October 27, Google issued a new Stable channel update for Chrome. Most users are on Chrome’s Stable channel. The desktop update brings Chrome to versions 156.0.8078.73/.74 for Windows and Mac and 156.0.8078.73 for Linux. The update includes 52 security fixes, including four rated Critical. On the same day, Mozilla issued Security Advisory 2026-118, which fixes 167 vulnerabilities. Firefox 159 also introduces several new features. Both updates will roll out over the coming days and weeks. How…
Google ha rilasciato un aggiornamento per il browser Chrome al fine di correggere 52 nuove vulnerabilità di sicurezza, di cui 4 con gravità “critica” e 46 con gravità “alta”.
De multiples vulnérabilités ont été découvertes dans Google Chrome. Elles permettent à un attaquant de provoquer un problème de sécurité non spécifié par l'éditeur.
On September 25, 2026, Mandiant released a report regarding continued mass exploitation of CVE-2026-35273 by the ShinyHunters group. TrendAI’s Zero Day Initiative first reported this CVE to Oracle on June 10, 2026, following an investigation I conducted with Minh Giang and Lucas Miller of TrendAI Research. Although Oracle issued a patch under a single CVE, we reported three distinct vulnerabilities across multiple PeopleSoft components. We are coordinating with Oracle to assign separate CVEs…
Serial number: AV26-1085 Date: October 26, 2026 As of October 22, 2026, Google is affected by a vulnerability in the following product: Brotli Versions 1.0.3 to versions prior to v1.0.10 Versions 1.1.0 to versions prior to v1.1.1 Versions 1.2.0 to versions prior to v1.2.1 The Cyber Centre encourages users and administrators to review the provided web link and apply any necessary updates as they become available. Brotli Releases
Google heeft een kwetsbaarheid verholpen in de Brotli-decompressiebibliotheek. Deze bibliotheek wordt onder meer gebruikt in Node.js. Een ongeauthenticeerde kwaadwillende kan de kwetsbaarheid op afstand misbruiken door speciaal vervaardigde Brotli-gecomprimeerde gegevens te laten verwerken. Succesvol misbruik kan leiden tot een denial-of-service, toegang tot gevoelige gegevens uit het procesgeheugen of het uitvoeren van willekeurige code met de rechten van het getroffen proces.
Chrome is getting new scam protections that use Gemini to detect deceptive websites and warn users when they copy suspicious commands from ClickFix attacks. [...]
Serial Number: AV26-1069 Date: October 21, 2026 As of October 20, 2026, Google is affected by a vulnerability in the following product: Stable Channel Chrome for Desktop Versions prior to 56.0.8078.47/.48 (Windows/Mac), and 156.0.8078.47 (Linux) The Cyber Centre encourages users and administrators to review the provided web link and apply any necessary updates as they become available. Google Chrome Security Advisory
Google ha rilasciato un aggiornamento per il browser Chrome al fine di correggere 353 nuove vulnerabilità di sicurezza, di cui 6 con gravità “critica” e 61 con gravità “alta”.
De multiples vulnérabilités ont été découvertes dans Google Chrome. Elles permettent à un attaquant de provoquer un problème de sécurité non spécifié par l'éditeur.
As Android Central reports, users have received unexpected emails telling them their phone number has been verified for secondary Google accounts. Like me and many others, you may have one Google account for everyday use, another for work, and a third for things you would rather keep separate. But if you’re using an Android phone, those accounts may have something in common that you didn’t intend or even know about: your phone number. Google’s own documentation confirms that phone number…
Classification: Critical, Solution: Official Fix, Exploit Maturity: Proof-of-Concept, CVSSv4.0: 9.3, CVEs: CVE-2026-102503, Summary: A SAM node exposes its registered backend services (MCP / A2A / inference, including command/stdio-backed MCP servers) over two libp2p paths. The MCP-protocol path is wrapped in WithBiscuitAuth -> Authorize, which enforces the node's biscuit policy (allowed_tools / allowed_targets). The parallel /libp2p-http ingress reaches the same backend service handlers with…
Classification: Critical, Solution: Official Fix, Exploit Maturity: Proof-of-Concept, CVSSv4.0: 9.3, CVEs: CVE-2026-103091, Summary: SAM's MCP proxy has no authorization. Any authenticated mesh member can invoke any tool on any node, with full read/write/exec on the backend. The only prerequisite is the control plane URL (via Shodan, I currently found a few via a header, but since this project is still in its very early adoption stage it makes sense the numbers aren't big right now, it's got…
Wiz identified threat actors hijacking Google Cloud Platform (GCP) billing accounts via search-ad phishing to fund unauthorized Gemini API usage. By stealing corporate credentials and MFA tokens, attackers gain access, dismantle IAM domain restrictions, and link external GCP p...
Classification: Critical, Solution: Official Fix, Exploit Maturity: Not Defined, CVSSv3.1: None, CVEs: CVE-2026-110151, CVE-2026-110922, CVE-2026-110144, CVE-2026-110159, CVE-2026-110166, CVE-2026-110172, CVE-2026-110913, CVE-2026-110918, CVE-2026-110919, CVE-2026-110921, Summary: The Extended Stable channel has been updated to 152.0.7977.169 for Windows and Mac which will roll out over the coming days/weeks. There are 10 security fixes.
Classification: Critical, Solution: Official Fix, Exploit Maturity: Not Defined, CVSSv3.1: None, CVEs: CVE-2026-110922, CVE-2026-110913, CVE-2026-110919, CVE-2026-110918, CVE-2026-110917, CVE-2026-110921, CVE-2026-110920, CVE-2026-110916, CVE-2026-110915, CVE-2026-110914, Summary: The Stable channel has been updated to 155.0.8059.84/.85 for Windows and Mac and 155.0.8059.84 to Linux which will roll out over the coming days/weeks. This update includes 10 security fixes.
Serial number: AV26-1060 Date: October 16, 2026 As of October 15, 2026, Google is affected by vulnerabilities in the following product: Chrome Versions prior to 155.0.8059.84/.85 (Windows/Mac) and 155.0.8059.84 (Linux) The Cyber Centre encourages users and administrators to review the provided web link and apply any necessary updates as they become available. Chrome Releases: Stable Channel Update for Desktop
Last month, Volexity published two blog posts in its Mind the (Patch) Gap series. The series details Volexity’s discovery of multiple Chinese threat actors simultaneously using zero-day exploits in Google Chrome and Microsoft Windows in campaigns that, if successful, would download and run malware on an exploited system. Those posts covered technical details of the exploits and malware Volexity observed, along with general detection methods for each case. Behind those findings was one of the…
Google ha rilasciato un aggiornamento per il browser Chrome al fine di correggere 10 nuove vulnerabilità di sicurezza, di cui 1 con gravità “critica” e 6 con gravità “alta”.
De multiples vulnérabilités ont été découvertes dans Google Chrome. Elles permettent à un attaquant de provoquer un problème de sécurité non spécifié par l'éditeur.
Serial number: AV26-1045 Date: October 15, 2026 As of October 13, 2026, Google is affected by vulnerabilities in the following product: Stable Channel Chrome for Desktop Versions prior to 155.0.8059.79/.80 (Windows/Mac), and 155.0.8059.79 to (Linux) The Cyber Centre encourages users and administrators to review the provided web link and apply any necessary updates as they become available. Stable Channel Update for Desktop
On October 13 and 14, Google issued several Chrome updates. Most users are on Chrome’s Stable channel. The desktop update brings Chrome to versions 155.0.8059.79/.80 for Windows and Mac and 155.0.8059.79 for Linux. The update includes 37 security fixes, including seven rated Critical. On the same day, Google released version 155.0.8059.79 for Android. It may not be available on Google Play for everyone yet but keep an eye out for it. Google says it also includes stability and performance…
Your streaming box might not look like much of a computer. But connect enough inexpensive devices together, and they can run an AI model. Researchers at Anthropic demonstrated this by running a Google Gemma model across 15 off-brand Android TV boxes. They warn that small models could soon spread across vulnerable internet-of-things (IoT) devices, including smart ovens and TV boxes, stating: “Our experiments suggest that small AI models may be months away from being capable enough to self…
In this article Uncovering the shadow world of a phishing kit ecosystem Storm-3119: YAM Store, the power broker Storm-2990: The Iron Man System phishing kit Downstream activity from Storm-2990 phishing kits Mitigation and protection guidance Microsoft Defender detections Over the past year, Microsoft uncovered a Chinese-language cybercriminal ecosystem, an interconnected network of phishing kit operators, developers, and an illicit marketplace selling tools and infrastructure for large-scale…
We found a wave of websites posing as Calendly booking pages for job interviews at Meta. Visitors pick a slot for a 30-minute phone call with a recruiter, fill in their details, and pass what looks like a CAPTCHA. Then the page asks them to log in to Facebook. The interview is fake. The pages are designed to steal the visitor’s Facebook login details, including the two-factor authentication (2FA) codes meant to protect the account. Visitors are then asked to sign in to their Google account too,…
Google ha rilasciato un aggiornamento per il browser Chrome al fine di correggere 37 nuove vulnerabilità di sicurezza, di cui 7 con gravità “critica” e 29 con gravità “alta”.
De multiples vulnérabilités ont été découvertes dans Google Chrome. Elles permettent à un attaquant de provoquer un problème de sécurité non spécifié par l'éditeur.
V dnešním díle našich Postřehů z bezpečnosti, které vyšly na Root.cz, se podíváme na podvodně získané certifikáty google.as, google.com.gh, youtube.sl a další, koukneme se na zranitelnosti v Dell CSM s upozorníme na firefoxové kapsáře pasoucí po našich peněženkách.
Hackers are abusing legitimate Bing search-result redirects as click URLs in Google search ads to direct users to fake Claude installers that deliver ClickFix attacks. [...]
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter. My name is Pierre Cadieux, and I’ll be helping contribute to these newsletters. A little about me: I’ve been working in the cybersecurity industry in many roles over the past 20+ years, first focusing on endpoint security, policies, and firewalls, then moving to risk management and compliance, disaster recovery, and investigations. I spent about 15 years as a consultant working across many well-known consultancy firms and…
According to Google, attackers compromised infrastructure behind three country-code domain namespaces—.gh (Ghana), .sl (Sierra Leone), and .as (American Samoa)—and used it to obtain unauthorized HTTPS certificates for Google domains and other organizations. These domain endings aren’t limited to sites serving those countries, so the risk can extend to users elsewhere. This wasn’t a break in encryption, and Google’s systems weren’t compromised. Instead, attackers manipulated the internet’s…
Day Three of Pwn2Own Ireland 2026 wrapsup with 17 attempts scheduled, roughly $1.33 million on the board. The headliner is the Google Pixel 10, which draws three separate attempts: Xint at 11:15 AM, Ikotas Labs at 2:00 PM, and the Valsamaras/Ken Gannon (Djini.ai)/Valsamara team closing things out at 6:30 PM — by far the single biggest payday in play all week. The Samsung Galaxy S26 gets one more run too, from BunkyoWesterns at 4:15 PM. Smart Home stays busy with three attempts on the Philips…
Cisco Talos identified an advanced persistent threat (APT) spear-phishing campaign against individuals affiliated with Taiwan research organizations. The operation leveraged legitimate public event themes and impersonated reputable academic and policy institutions to establish credibility. The phishing emails exhibited highly consistent structure, rhetoric, and personalization patterns, suggesting the threat actor likely used AI-assisted content generation to rapidly customize invitation lures…
Hackers obtained unauthorized HTTPS certificates for several Google domains and hijacked domains in the country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) for Ghana, American Samoa, and Sierra Leone after compromising third-party operators and modifying authoritative DNS records. [...]
Google heeft kwetsbaarheden verholpen in Android. Samsung heeft de voor Samsung Mobile relevante kwetsbaarheden verholpen in hun producten. De kwetsbaarheden betreffen onder andere onjuiste bounds checking, ontbrekende permissiecontroles, integer overflows, onjuist geïnitialiseerde pointers, type confusion, race conditions en onjuiste exception handling. Deze fouten kunnen leiden tot out-of-bounds memory reads en writes, geheugen corruptie, privilege escalatie, informatielekken, denial-of…
Serial number: AV26-1006 Date: October 7, 2026 As of October 6, 2026, Google is affected by vulnerabilities in the following product: Stable Channel Chrome for Desktop Versions prior to 155.0.8059.39/.40 (Windows/Mac), and 155.0.8059.39 (Linux) The Cyber Centre encourages users and administrators to review the provided web link and apply any necessary updates as they become available. Stable Channel Update for Desktop
Google has published security fixes for Android. The October updates are available for Android operating system versions 14, 15, 16, 16-qpr2, and 17 where “qpr” stands for Quarterly Platform Release. QPRs are interim updates Google pushes out between major yearly cycles. These Android security bulletins contain valuable information for Android users. The updates are important as they fix several vulnerabilities rated as Critical, which can be exploited without users even doing anything. However…
Google ha pubblicato gli aggiornamenti di sicurezza per i dispositivi Pixel relativi al mese di ottobre, contenenti correzioni per 6 vulnerabilità, di cui 3 con gravità “critica” e 3 con gravità “alta”. Tali vulnerabilità, qualora sfruttate, potrebbero consentire ad un utente malintenzionato di accedere ad informazioni sensibili e di elevare i propri privilegi sui sistemi interessati.
Google has released updates for the Chrome browser and the ChromeOS operating system. On October 6, Google released a Stable Channel Update for Desktop. This is the most important one for desktop users. It brings Chrome to version 155.0.8059.39 for Linux and versions 154.0.8037.39/.40 for Windows and Mac. The update includes 247 security fixes including four rated Critical. On the same day, Google released version 155.0.8059.39 for Android, to a small percentage of users. It may not be…
Google ha rilasciato un aggiornamento per il browser Chrome al fine di correggere 247 nuove vulnerabilità di sicurezza, di cui 12 con gravità “critica” e 42 con gravità “alta”.
De multiples vulnérabilités ont été découvertes dans Google Chrome. Elles permettent à un attaquant de provoquer un problème de sécurité non spécifié par l'éditeur.