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The Register
Rapid restore tool being tested as Microsoft estimates 8.5 million machines went down CrowdStrike's now-infamous Falcon Sensor software, which last week led to widespread outages of Windows-powered computers, has also caused crashes of Linux machines.…
Dark Reading
An official stamp of approval might give the impression that a purported "HotPage" adtech tool is not, in fact, a dangerous kernel-level malware — but that's just subterfuge.
The Hacker News
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on an adware module that purports to block ads and malicious websites, while stealthily offloading a kernel driver component that grants attackers the ability to run arbitrary code with elevated permissions on Windows hosts. The malware, dubbed HotPage, gets its name from the eponymous installer ("HotPage.exe"), according to new findings from ESET. The
ZDNet Security
Linus Torvalds just announced the general availability of the new 6.10 kernel, which is the latest stable branch and introduces several new features as well as the usual collection of fixes and improvements.
Bleeping Computer
Arm has issued a security bulletin warning of a memory-related vulnerability in Bifrost and Valhall GPU kernel drivers that is being exploited in the wild. [...]
The Hacker News
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a security flaw impacting the Linux kernel to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. Tracked as CVE-2024-1086 (CVSS score: 7.8), the high-severity issue relates to a use-after-free bug in the netfilter component that permits a local attacker to elevate privileges
ZDNet Security
All vendor kernels are plagued with security vulnerabilities, according to a CIQ whitepaper. Will the Linux community ever accept upstream stable kernels?
The Hacker News
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed what they say is the "first native Spectre v2 exploit" against the Linux kernel on Intel systems that could be exploited to read sensitive data from the memory. The exploit, called Native Branch History Injection (BHI), can be used to leak arbitrary kernel memory at 3.5 kB/sec by bypassing existing Spectre v2/BHI mitigations, researchers from Systems and
The Register
CVE-2024-1086 turns the page tables on system admins A Linux privilege-escalation proof-of-concept exploit has been published that, according to the bug hunter who developed it, typically works effortlessly on kernel versions between at least 5.14 and 6.6.14. …
The Register
PLUS: NSA shares cloud security tips; Infosec training for Jordanian women; Critical vulnerabilities Cybersecurity researchers informed Microsoft that Notorious North Korean hackers Lazarus Group discovered the "holy grail" of rootkit vulnerabilities in Windows last year, but Redmond still took six months to patch the problem.… Infosec in brief