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Back in late December, Ars covered the sudden appearance of a JavaScript worm variant designed to capitalize on the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. While the exploit itself had been in the wild ...
Security experts today urged Adobe Reader and Acrobat users to disable the JavaScript option until a patch is issued for a just-disclosed vulnerability.
Twitter is seriously screwed up at the moment, thanks to a new Javascript exploit that’s currently slamming the service. Visitors of Twitter’s website are inadvertently retweeting spam and ...
Vicious Chrome V8 JavaScript Exploit Leaves All Android Devices Ripe For Attack. by Brandon Hill — Saturday, November 14, 2015, 02:24 PM EDT. Comments. If you’re an Android ...
The victim dynamically executes the downloaded JavaScript. If this was the exploit for CVE-2021-38003, this would result in shellcode execution on the victim machine.
A Javascript zero-day vulnerability affecting the Mozilla Firefox web browser is currently being actively exploited against The Onion Router (TOR) anonymising network users by unknown attackers ...
The browser exploit -- a JavaScript vulnerability inherent to Firefox version 17, the version upon which the Tor browser was built -- was enabled by a breach of Freedom Hosting servers.
Firefox has already issued an update to address the exploit. Users are urged to update to Firefox 39.0.3 to plug the potential security gap. H/T Gizmodo | Photo via Raphaël Quinet/Flickr (CC BY ...
Google Chrome exploit targets JavaScript engine to let attackers hack any Android device. By Jagmeet Singh Published 13 November 2015, 10:55 AM GMT.
Users should disable JavaScript in Adobe's Reader and Acrobat tools to protect themselves until a patch for a just-disclosed vulnerability is available, security experts said today.