ZDNet reports that more than 15,000 Android users had their devices infected with the Sharkbot malware after downloading six fake anti-virus apps, all of which have already been removed from the Google Play store.
BleepingComputer reports that some Palo Alto Networks firewall, XDR, and VPN offerings have been impacted by a high-severity OpenSSL vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-0778, which could be exploited to prompt a denial of service condition.
Intego researchers revealed that while Apple has already released emergency patches to address actively exploited zero-day code execution flaws in macOS Monterey, iPadOS, and iOS, tracked as CVE-2022-22676 and CVE-22674, it has failed to remediate the vulnerabilities in Big Sur, Catalina, and older macOS versions, reports SecurityWeek.
Experts at the Zero Trust Summit called on organizations seeking to implement a zero-trust cybersecurity model to monitor their networks with telemetry systems, FedScoop reports.
SecurityWeek reports that Google has implemented a twofold increase in rewards for eligible Google Nest and Fitbit vulnerability reports under its bug bounty program.
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