The official Nobel Prize website was hacked yesterday, and for some time ran an exploit targeting a new 0-day vulnerability in the Firefox browser. According to our information, the exploit was used to install a backdoor on the user’s computer system without notifications or warning messages. The backdoor tries to retrieve the path of the [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Critical Security Vulnerability In Firefox 3.5
A critical security vulnerability affecting Firefox 3.5 has been discovered and published on the security portal Milw0rm entitled Firefox 3.5 Heap Spray Vulnerability. A proof of concept exploit has been provided. In short, the vulnerability can lead to remote code execution. The good news is that a security patch has already been published by Mozilla [...]
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Latest Firefox Web Browser Vulnerable to 0-Day Exploit
Dante send me a tip about a 0-day exploit that is affecting the latest versions of the popular Firefox web browser. The exploit is described as a remote memory-corruption vulnerability that is affecting Firefox running on all supported operating systems. A proof of concept has been published by the security researcher and the Mozilla team [...]