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October 30, 2020 07:35 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ZGmmR401g7Y/google-discloses-windows-zero-day-exploited-in-the-wild
Google Discloses Windows Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild
Security researchers from Google have disclosed today a zero-day vulnerability in the Windows operating system that is currently under active exploitation. From a report: The zero-day is expected to be patched on November 10, which is the date of Microsoft's next Patch Tuesday, according to Ben Hawkes, team lead for Project Zero, Google's elite vulnerability research team. On Twitter, Hawkes said the Windows zero-day (tracked as CVE-2020-17087) was used as part of a two-punch attack, together with another a Chrome zero-day (tracked as CVE-2020-15999) that his team disclosed last week. The Chrome zero-day was used to allow attackers to run malicious code inside Chrome, while the Windows zero-day was the second part of this attack, allowing threat actors to escape Chrome's secure container and run code on the underlying operating system -- in what security experts call a sandbox escape.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ZGmmR401g7Y/google-discloses-windows-zero-day-exploited-in-the-wild
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