This month’s Patch Tuesday includes 111 fixes for Microsoft. Of the 111 vulnerabilities, 16 have been rated Critical while the rest have been ranked Important.
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The first Patch Tuesday of 2020 in January brought an unusually long list of patches, but February brings an even wider range of fixes that address a total of 99 vulnerabilities — including 12 classified as Critical, with the remaining 99 deemed Important. Only five of the vulnerabilities were made public before the patches were released; one of these was rated as Critical.
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We observed an increase in hacking group Outlaw’s activities in December, with updates on the kits’ capabilities reminiscent of their previous attacks.
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2020 starts off with a relatively heavy list of patches for Microsoft users. January is typically a light month for fixes, but Microsoft released patches for 49 vulnerabilities (eight of which are Critical and all the remaining classified as Important) in this cycle. None of these vulnerabilities are known to be under attack at this…
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We found three malicious apps in the Google Play store that work together to compromise a victim’s device and collect user information. One of these apps, called Camero, exploits CVE-2019-2215, a vulnerability that exists in Binder (the main Inter-Process Communication system in Android). This is the first known active attack in the wild that uses the use-after-free vulnerability.
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