Mozilla rushes out patch for Zero-Day exploit in Firefox

10 October 2024.

The Hacker News report that Mozilla "has revealed that a critical security flaw impacting Firefox and Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) has come under active exploitation in the wild."

Firefox users should check the version they are using.

The exploit has been addressed in:

• Firefox 131.0.2,
• Firefox ESR 128.3.1, and
• Firefox ESR 115.16.1.

Read more: Mozilla rushes out patch for Zero-Day exploit in Firefox.

It pays to keep your browser up to date

26 November 2024.

The Hacker News reported that a threat actor known as RomCom has been subsequently linked to the zero-day exploitation of a security flaw in Mozilla Firefox.

"In a successful attack, if a victim browses a web page containing the exploit, an adversary can run arbitrary code – without any user interaction required (zero click) – which in this case led to the installation of RomCom's backdoor on the victim's computer," ESET said in a report shared with The Hacker News.

The flaw is reported to have been patched by Mozilla in October 2024.

Read more: RomCom exploits Zero-Day Firefox flaw in sophisticated cyberattacks.

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Protect Your Web Connection

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