Privilege Escalation Flaw Haunts VMware Tools

Virtualization technology software giant VMware on Tuesday released patches to fix an important-severity security flaw in the VMware Tools suite of utilities.

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-31676, could be exploited by attackers to escalate privileges on a compromised system.

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GitLab Patches Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

DevOps platform GitLab has issued patches for a critical remote code execution vulnerability impacting its GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) releases.

Tracked as CVE-2022-2884 (CVSS 9.9/10 severity), the security flaw can be exploited via the GitHub import API, but requires authentication to be triggered.

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Fake DDoS Protection Prompts on Hacked WordPress Sites Deliver RATs

Website security firm Sucuri is warning of an increase in fake distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) protection notifications that lead to the delivery of malware.

DDoS protection notifications are web pages that the browser serves to users when checks are performed to verify that the visitor is indeed a human and not a bot or part of a DDoS attack.

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TXOne Networks Scores $70M Series B Investment

TXOne Networks, a joint venture between cybersecurity firm Trend Micro and industrial networking solutions provider Moxa, has banked $70 million in new venture capital funding.

The company, which maintains dual headquarters in Texas and Taiwan, said the Series B round was led by TGVest Capital and brings the total raised to $94 million.

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Apple Patches New macOS, iOS Zero-Days

Apple on Wednesday rolled out emergency patches for a pair of already exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in its flagship macOS and iOS platforms.

Apple confirmed in-the-wild exploitation of the vulnerabilities in separate advisories warning about code execution flaws in fully patched iPhone, iPad and macOS devices.

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