January 31, 2022 – TheCyberThrone

Public Exploit On Windows Privilege Escalation

The security researchers has publicly released an exploit for a Windows local privilege elevation flaw (CVE-2022-21882) that allows anyone to gain admin privileges in Windows 10. The Win32k elevation of privilege…

PravinKarthik January 31, 2022

AWS Unsecured Bucket Leaks 3TB Data

An unsecured server has exposed sensitive data belonging to airport employees across Colombia and Peru. The server belonging to Securitas was left unsecured, resulting in the exposure of 3TB in…

PravinKarthik January 31, 2022

Dark Herring ! Scam Campaign

A total of 470 malicious applications, collectively named Dark Herring, were used to target users in 70 countries in what appears to be the largest SMS scam campaign known to…

PravinKarthik January 31, 2022

Security

Google FLoC Flops ! Topics Rising

Google has decided to drop FLoC (Federated Learning of Cohorts), its cookie alternative, with something called Topics API. The Topics API will use browsing topics into 300 or so categories.…

PravinKarthik January 31, 2022

Solarwinds Fixes Critical Bug in its Helpdesk Software

Solarwinds has fixed a critical bug in its Web Help Desk software that allowed attackers to execute arbitrary Hibernate Query Language (HQL) code. Solarwinds Web Help Desk is a helpdesk…

PravinKarthik January 31, 2022